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November – Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Weekend

November 30, 2012 in default, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Crowd gathers for the Race to End Women’s Cancer

Although the Foundation for Women’s Cancer (FWC) is headquartered in Chicago, Washington D.C. always seems like a fitting place for the FWC to host their annual national event, The National Race to End Women’s Cancer and their Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Movement Weekend.  After all, the FWC is all about making this event part of a national movement that raises awareness and funding to fight women’s cancer, and what better place to host the heart of this national movement then at the nation’s capital.

Here at WORD, we have been fortunate enough to attend every National Race to End Women’s Cancer since its inception.  Truly, the event gets better and better every year.  Despite Hurricane Sandy slowing down the east coast just days earlier, the weather was perfect for the race and weekend festivities.  The event had a great turnout.

The Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Movement Weekend started on Friday, November 2nd, with a preview showing of a film by Spark Media, “No Evidence of Disease”.  The film is about the rock band N.E.D. which is made up of Gynecologic Oncologists from around the country.  The evening also included a sold-out performance by N.E.D. themselves.

At one of the Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Movement’s free seminars.

On Saturday, the FWC hosted all-day survivor courses on Ovarian, Uterine and Cervical cancer for survivors and their caregivers.  These courses were all offered free of charge and taught by medical and scientific experts in the field.  But the main event of the weekend, of course, is the National Race to End Women’s Cancer on Sunday at Freedom Plaza.

WORD was thrilled to be able to connect with key people involved in this weekend event, including survivors, caregivers, advocates, and even the medical and scientific experts who treat these diseases.  In the summary video below, we briefly interview some of these people and give an overview of the Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Movement Weekend as a whole.

To watch other videos from this event (including the entire interviews from those featured in the interview above), please visit the YouTube playlist of all the videos from that weekend at this link, or view the clips in the embedded player below.  A special thanks to all of the people who spoke with us at the event including:  Michelle L. Whitlock (How I lost My Uterus and Found My Voice), Tamika Felder (Tamika and Friends), Dr. Rusty Robinson (N.E.D. the band), Dr. Carol Brown, Dr, Ginger Gardner, and everyone else who took the time to interview with us.  And as always, thanks to Nate Manahan for his excellent on-camera interviewing work.

Finally, be sure to learn about next year’s Gynecologic Cancer Weekend and register for next year’s Race to End Women’s Cancer at the event website at EndWomensCancer.org

 

Until next time,

 

- Chad Braham

Director of Media Production

WORDonCancer.org

October Wrap-Up

November 2, 2012 in default, Uncategorized with 3 Comments

Christina & Gloria

October has been another busy month for us as we’ve continued on with the post production of our documentary film, “No More“.  To keep you up-to-date on the process of producing this documentary, we thought we would include another “sneak peak” at one of the clips from the film.

The clip below offers first-hand testimonials, from some women that live in the Peten region of Guatemala and attended one of the clinic stops on the Cervical Cancer Prevention Campaign.  Their stories offer a brief insight into many of the obstacles women face in Guatemala when it comes to getting a simple Pap test.

Our friends at Sew HOPE have been posting on their blog with stories from their current trip.  In their blog post from Friday (Oct 27), they describe an encounter with yet another case of advanced cervical cancer in a young woman who visits their clinic.  The story brings to the surface how the cervical cancer prevention landscape for women in places like Peten are literally life-and-death… and so much more needs to be done.  Be sure to follow their blog and all the amazing work Sew HOPE does.

On a different note WORD is just about to leave for the Foundation for Women’s Cancer’s National Race to End Women’s Cancer.  Be sure to check our Facebook page for upcoming videos and coverage from that event in the next few days.

Until Next time,

Chad Braham

Director of Media Production

WORDonCancer.org

September Wrap-Up

October 3, 2012 in default, Uncategorized with 2 Comments

Hello again everybody.  We thought we would close-out Gynecologic Cancer awareness month with two videos.

This first video is from the local Ovarian Cancer Run/Walk here in Indianapolis, hosted by Ovar’coming Together.  Ovar’coming Together always does a fantastic job with this Run/Walk, and each year it gets better and better.  This was our third year attending this event, and each year we’ve always been curios about the large Hello Gorgeous RV parked along the street at the event.  Well, this year, we were able to meet one of the co-founders of Hello Gorgeous of HOPE Inc., and learn about their passion for providing complimentary, professional makeovers and cosmetic education to all women battling all cancers.

Our second video is another promo edit of our documentary short film, “No More“.  This video features Ismael Martinez (Sew HOPE project Director) and Anne Ruch (Sew HOPE Co-Founder) as they explain a lot of the obstacles to carrying out Sew HOPE‘s cervical cancer prevention campaign in the Peten region of Guatemala.

Enjoy the fall weather,

 

Chad Braham

Director of Media Production

WORDonCancer.org

End of July

August 1, 2012 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

We couldn’t let another month slip past without updating you on our “No More” documentary short film.  Included below is a video snippet that includes Puja and Dr. Anne explaining some of their views on international health.

Puja Venket is a 4th year med student at the University of Toledo and a frequent volunteer on Dr. Anne Ruch’s Sew HOPE medical missions trips.  On this medical mission’s trip, Sew HOPE is undertaking their most ambitious goal to date; administer over 1000 paps and gather data that will help the team design a sustainable Cervical Cancer Prevention Program, that will save lives in Peten, Guatemala.

To learn more about the film, “No More”, and to keep up-to-date on it’s progress, be sure to subscribe to the film’s blog at NoMoreTheMovie.com

To view other promo edits for this film, visit the film’s YouTube playlist.

 

Chad Braham

Director of Media Production

WORDonCancer.org

End of June Update

June 29, 2012 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Hey everyone,

As we move into the heat of the summer, we thought we would check-in with a videos that show some of what WORD has been up to this past month.

For starters, we’ve been continuing our post-production work on our documentary short film, “No More”.  And released another promo edit entitled, “Meet Randy”.

Remember to subscribe to our film’s blog at NoMoreTheMovie.com, so you can be informed of all the news and releases from the project, as soon as they become available.

In addition, WORD also attended the ASCO 2012 Annual Meeting this year in Chicago.  Our hope is to include audio and video interviews from key gynecologic cancer presenters from this event, in the next couple of weeks.  Be sure to follow this blog and we will update you as those materials become available.

 

Hope everyone has a safe and fun 4th of July!

 

Chad Braham

Director of Media Production

WORDonCancer.org