At My Mother's Breast

200555 min 35 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Heather Watson-Burgess

Production: Joe MacDonaldGraydon McCreaMichael Scott

Script: Heather Watson-Burgess

Filmmaker Heather Watson-Burgess is twenty seven years old. She is the daughter of a woman with breast cancer, who is the daughter of a woman with breast cancer, who is the daughter of a woman with breast cancer. Heather illustrates how this illness changes mothers and daughters, and how they become sisters of a kind. They go through the process together, and come out forever changed.

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Subject categories


  • Health and Medicine > CancerCoping with Illness and DyingWomen
  • Women > Health and Illness

Credits


participant
Ruth Crocker
Toby Jones
Vivian Haskins
Ranya Haskins
Lora Peel
Heather Watson-Burgess
Linda Watson
Michelle Wingfield
Dorothy Yates
director
Heather Watson-Burgess
writer
Heather Watson-Burgess
producer
Joe MacDonald
executive producer
Graydon McCrea
Michael Scott
director of photography
Lisa Fryklund
sound recordist
Brenda Donahue
editor
David McGunigal
original music composer
Olaf Pyttlick
original music performer
Olaf Pyttlick
additional cinematography
Claude Savard
Dave Gaudet
Heather Watson-Burgess
additional sound recordist
Jay Garuk
Marvin Polanski
Kellie Thomson
narrator
Heather Watson-Burgess
assistant editor
Vanessa Loewen
online editor
Tony Wytinck
mixer
Howard Rissin
sound editor
Russ Dyck
production supervisor
Scott Collins
studio administrator
Cyndi Forcand
production coordinator
Melanie Coad
Monique Perron
production clerk
Rolande Petit
super 8 camera
Heather Watson-Burgess
Darrin Geving
photo animation
Scott Collins

Awards


  • BLIZZARD Award - for Best Writing (non fiction) to Heather Watson-BurgessThe BLIZZARDS/Manitoba Motion Picture Ind. Ass. Film & Video Awards