Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

My Left Breast

Gerry Rogers 2000 Canada Documentary color 57min English Betacam
With startling honesty and immediacy, Newfoundland filmmaker Gerry Rogers began filming her ordeal with breast cancer the moment her hair started falling out from chemotherapy. When watching this film, you will experience it and you will never see the world quite the same way again.

Director

Gerry Rogers

Gerry Rogers began her film career in 1982 at the National Film Board Studio D in Montreal. In 1992 she returned to her native Newfoundland and founded Augusta Productions. Her directorial credits include the NFB/CBC co-production 《After The Montreal Massacre》, 《Vienna Tribunal》, and《Kathleen Shannon: on film, feminism, and other dreams》. Greey's latest film,《My Left Breast》is an intimate and starkly honest portrayal of her struggle with breast cancer, through tears, humor and courage.

Gerry Rogers

1990 After The Montreal

1994 Vienna Tribunal

1997 Kathleen Shannon: on film, feminism, and other dreams

2000 My Left Breast

 

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