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WOMEN’S HEALTH
“This engaging snapshot of how one
agency serves its community delivers
a quiet message about reaching out to
women, offering assistance without
preachment or judgment.
Recommended.”
—Video Librarian
2011 Film Festival, Western
Psychological Association
20 minutes
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color
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2009
Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $195
America spends more on healthcare than any other
nation, but ranks poorly when it comes to infant
mortality. MAKING MOTHERS focuses on the
efforts of a midwife and a breastfeeding counselor in
serving a primarily African American community in
Washington, DC.
Making Mothers
A film by Ben Crosbie & Tessa Moran
“A stark portrayal of women speaking
their truth directly to the camera.”
—Susan Millar,
The Undercurrent Journal
Leo Awards: Nominated for
Best Direction, Screenwriting,
Cinematography, Editing,
and Music
55 minutes
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color
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2008
Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $248
“Very direct, intimate and personal...
Raisedmy consciousness to certain
important patient issues that I was not
previously sensitive to.”
—Dr.JohnSaltzman,Gastroenterologist,
Director of Endoscopy Brigham and
Women’s Hospital
2012 Film Festival, Western
Psychological Association
2011 Hippocrates International
Health Film Festival (Greece)
61 minutes
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color
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2009
Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $248
Breasts can be sources of embarrassment, pride or
self-identity. They are centers of women’s erotic
lives, and sources of
nourishment and
nurturing. They are also a
source of vulnerability:
both the risk and the
reality of breast cancer are
the focus of many of the
emotionally powerful
visual essays that make up
SEVENTEEN SHORT
FILMS ABOUT BREASTS.
Diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 42,
Dr. Katherine Clark was given 1-2 years to live.
OUTSIDE IN follows
her over the next 9 years—
as she undergoes
treatment, trains for
triathlons, makes
movies—and sues the
doctors who missed
her diagnosis.
Seventeen Short Films about Breasts
A film by Cathryn Robertson
Outside In
Directed by Katherine Deutch Tatlock
Executive producer: Katherine Whipple Clark, MD
