Diego has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at the age of 44. As he sits in his chair, we can hear his thoughts and feelings.

The camera tracks in and we can see Diego aging subtly. His hair recedes, his face starts to become thin and wrinkled.

As he gets older, problems caused by poorly-managed diabetes begin to take hold. At 33 secs, Diego’s right eye goes red, a sign of diabetic retinopathy. His skin deteriorates.

At 53 secs, when he’s almost 70 years old, we see that Diego had to endure a shocking consequence of diabetes.

At 01:06, the film rewinds to the point at which therapy intensification could have made a difference to Diego’s life.

Before the supers appear, Diego feels defeated. What else can he do?

Then, using appropriate language, we ask doctors to consider intensive therapy and change their patients’ future.

To create a seamless ageing effect, we used make up to create 4 different age brackets (44, 55, 65, and 75) and then used a post-production flame suite to ‘blend’ between the different ages.

With photographs, this would have been relatively simple, but because our actor was moving slightly throughout the film, each of these tiny movements had to be meticulously timed and calculated.

To add tension, we wanted to slowly track in on Diego's face as he aged, but executing the zoom in-camera would have made post-production ageing extremely difficult.

Instead, we opted to shoot in high-resolution 4K and perform the zoom after the ageing effect had been applied and locked down.