Between Us
When veteran filmmaker Mary Katzke was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, her only experience with the disease was watching her mother die from it nine years earlier. She searched in vain for a film that would show long-term survivors who honestly portrayed their experiences with the disease. She made a commitment that if she made her five year anniversary, she would create the film she so desperately needed at the time. Positive and informative in nature, Between Us: The Girlfriends Inside Guide to Facing Breast Cancer is the realization of that dream with a theme of "survivor mentorship".
Through the voices and faces of a wide cross-section of women of all ages, ethnic and economic backgrounds, we hear the inside story of facing treatment and recovery from a disease we all believed would lead to our demise. It is a very personal, intimate, and candid film that is finding a surprising number of additional and unexpected venues for use as a sensitivity training tool for surgeons to a gift of hope for husbands and families. There is no medical advice given, as opinions vary and scientific advances on a weekly basis would outdate the video too quickly.
Beyond Flowers
Then Affinityfilms produced Beyond Flowers: What to Say and Do When Someone You Know Has Breast Cancer for the support team- loved ones, family and care providers. The accompanying handbook includes information not possible to include in the documentary.
The Quiet War
As years went on and more women with metastatic breast cancer were facing the same need, that of more information and more girlfriends' scoop on their fight against metastatic disease, we created The Quiet War: Profiles of Women Facing Advanced Breast Cancer. The Quiet War not only includes 54 minutes of profiles of five women, but also an hour of Q & A with oncologist, social worker and Musa Mayer, author of the bible for metastatic patients, Living with Advanced Breast Cancer, and a conversation about hospice care.
Mary Katzke travels to Austin Texas with The Quiet War/October 2007
Statewide Television Awareness Campaign on Importance of Early Detection
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