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Click the review “Artist Filmmaker Seeks Healthcare Equity in Territories of the Breast”
by Cheryl L. McLean, Editor of the International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCA
Read the Territories of the Breast’ Stands in a Tradition of Women’s Activism
by Alan Radley, Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough University, UK
Territories of the Breast’ stands in a tradition of women’s activism about breast cancer and its treatment, making a valuable contribution to art about illness. This moving and informative movie begins with Sonia Baez-Hernandez’s diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. Using voices from patients, families, and medical practitioners, it tells stories of problems women of color face, for whom screening opportunities and treatment options are comparatively limited. It also raises the issue of what women without health insurance in the USA face when they receive a breast cancer diagnosis—using their artistic practice for healing and to promote a dialogue to eradicate health disparities. Sonia shows how she encounters the effects of a disease, one part of this being making a DVD for her documentary and its promise to help other women in similar situations.
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Territories of the Breast
- Territories of the Breast 58 minutes
- Story of five women survivors narrated their story of breast cancer disparities, activism, and support, Arts practices as healing
- Director Sonia Baez-Hernandez Director, Producer, story concept, select the survivors, experts and activist,
- Editors by Jean Rene Rinvil, and Diego Perez, videographer by Jean Rene Rinvil
- Aixa Baez Narrator
- Spirit award at the Reels Sister of the Diaspora Film Festival in New York (2008)
- Territories of the Breast Official Selection, Women International Film Festival, Miami, FL (2008)
- Territories of the Breast Official selection, 5th Spaghetti Junction Urban Film Festival, Atlanta, GA (2007)
- Territories of the Breast, Official selection 5th Annual and nominated as Best Documentary Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, Atlanta, GA (2006) Honorable Mention