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My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer
199946 min 39 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Joseph Viszmeg
Production: Jerry KrepakevichGraydon McCrea
Script: Joseph Viszmeg
In 1991, Edmonton filmmaker Joe Viszmeg was diagnosed with a rare form of adrenal cancer and told he would not live through the year. Four years later, Viszmeg completed the eloquent film In My Own Time - Diary of a Cancer Patient. In the subsequent three years, Viszmeg continued his courageous filmmaking. This new work, My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer, blends segments of the first film with the extraordinary story of how, with the support of his family, he survived the roller coaster of a deadly cancer until his death in the summer of 1999. A mixture of personal journals, often humorous narration, medical interviews and moving images.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Alternative, Holistic and Indigenous MedicineCancerCoping with Illness and DyingPortraits
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Coping with AdversityHealing
- Film and Video Arts > Portraits
Credits
- director
- Joseph Viszmeg
- commentary
- Joseph Viszmeg
- editing
- Joseph Viszmeg
- narrator
- Joseph Viszmeg
- producer
- Jerry Krepakevich
- executive producer
- Graydon McCrea
- cinematography
- Peter Wunstorf
- sound
- Garrell Clark
- Jamie Kidd
- René Potrebenko
- sound editing
- Downy Karvonen
- sound mixing
- Paul Sharpe
- Sina Oroomchi
- music
- John Millard
Awards
- Gemini Award for Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure - Documentary ProgramGemini Awards
- Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary (Joseph Viszmeg)Gemini Awards
- Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Documentary SocialYorkton Film Festival
- Silver Chris Award - Category: Mental Health International Film and Video Festival