Joanna Rudnick on "BRCA-Mommy-Hood"
Ahead of tonight's WTTW Chicago broadcast of In the Family, director/producer Joanna Rudnick reflects on the past decade of her life: living with the knowledge that she is genetically predisposed to a high chance of suffering from breast and ovarian cancer, making an award-winning film about the consequences of that knowledge and its effect on other women with the BRCA gene mutation, and finally, giving birth to a beautiful baby girl!
Read Joanna's moving blog below and watch a video update below:
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In the Family airs on WTTW this Thursday, 9pm
At 9pm this Thursday in Chicago, WTTW Channel 11 will broadcast In the Family, Joanna Rudnick's personal documentary about the consequences of testing positive for the BRCA genetic mutation.
Martha Haley's "How"
Many viewers have asked for a copy of the poem "How" spoken by Martha Haley in the film. Here is the full poem:
"How"
How can I fight you, when you insist on sneaking up on me?
How can I hide you, for everywhere I go you try to find me?
How can I see myself as a "woman" when you insist upon disfiguring me?
How can I look at my daughter, sister and friend and wonder are you
going to hurt them also.
How can I walk straight, when try to ripple through my bones?
How can I wake up when you try to tell me there's no need to get up?
"I'LL TELL YOU HOW"
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Joanna Rudnick to speak at LA FORCE screening
FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered in Los Angeles presents a very special screening of In the Family with filmmaker Joanna Rudnick at Disney Studios, Burbank, CA on March 27th at 3:30pm.
Joanna will be joined for a post-screening discussion with Ora Karp Gordon, MD, Director of the GenRisk Adult Genetics Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Anya Prince, JD, attorney with the Cancer Legal Resource Center specializing in genetic discrimination issues.
Free to attend. RSVP to FORCE LA: http://www.facingourrisk.org/FORCE_community/local_groups/california_los...
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In the Family in Seattle and Canada
Kartemquin's 2008 documentary In the Family has some exciting new screenings coming up, most notably its Canadian television premiere and an appearance at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
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