A champion for ALS

The 2006 Sundance Film Festival documentary "So Much So Fast," about a Massachusetts man's battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and his family's reaction to the illness, will have a free screening Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Jim Santy Auditorium, Park City Library Center, 1255 Park Ave., Park City.

Co-director Steven Ascher will take part in a post-screening discussion of the movie and its subject, Stephen Heywood, who died Sunday after an eight-year battle with ALS. The screening is part of the Sundance Institute's monthly documentary series.