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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