I’m continuing to receive e-mails from readers and World Warcraft players who were touched by the Ezra Chatterton story — the 10-year-old boy with brain cancer who Blizzard granted the ultimate Warcraft fan wish (create new characters, etc for the game).

Response to the family continues to amaze Ezra and his parents, Micah and Elizabeth. The latest is they were contacted by Victor Pineiro, a filmmaker working on the “Second Skin” documentary for Sundance 08 on WoW and other massively multiplayer online games (Ezra’s unsure if he has the energy to do the interview, said his dad). A digital-art graduate student at Australia National University interviewed Micah for a paper on the same subject.

Meanwhile, of course, the update on Ezra:

The first few days of treatment have gone well, aside from him sleeping all the time, but it’s really so important to the possibility of his recovery that he respond to this first round of treatment, and I believe in my heart that prayer works, kind wishes from strangers help. If you would like to include something of this sentiment in your update, I would love that. — Micah Chatterton, Ezra’s father

Kyle the Frenzied is named and modeled after Ezra’s own dog.

For past updates:
* May 25, 2007: Fund set up for Ezra
* May 23, 2007: Gamers show their support for Ezra
* May 22, 2007: Images of Ezra’s WoW creations, thanks to Blizzard developers

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