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Portrait of a Survivor

by Ellen Mills, NewEnglandFilm.com

"In 1993, Cynthia McKeown heard that an acquaintance, Janice Fine, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. What began as a casual offer to videotape Fine’s experiences for posterity became a nine year collaboration resulting in a profound and intimate portrait of a cancer survivor, screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre this month." [full article online]

Reactions to One in Eight

"One in Eight: Janice's Journey charts a valiant woman's struggles with breast cancer and with the stubborn, often wrong-headed American health industry. Told cinema verite fashion, "One in Eight" is a spry, surprisingly dramatic, true-life American thriller, and with an ecological agenda. Why is it that one in twenty American women used to get breast cancer in a lifetime, and now it's one in eight?"

— Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix film critic

"With hilarity and intelligence, Janice takes us on the journey of her fight with breast cancer. As she navigates the medical establishment and finds support and challenges in this battle, we learn from her discoveries and appreciate her authenticity and humor. Entertaining, real, funny, illuminating, important, touching and smart."

— Women in the Director's Chair International Film and Video Festival, 2004

"One in Eight: Janice's Journey is an extraordinary film depicting one young woman's experience with breast cancer. It is especially helpful as it explores both the personal and the larger societal issues around this epidemic disease. Anyone who cares about someone living with breast cancer will find this a moving and provocative film."

— Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW
        Chief, Oncology Social Work
        Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston