''My Left Breast'' is a 2000 Canadian
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
, directed by
Gerry Rogers
Gerry Rogers (born 1956) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and politician. She was leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party from 2018 until 2019. She served in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as NDP MHA for ...
.
["Documentary debuts this weekend". '' The Western Star'', November 24, 2000.] Starring Rogers and her partner
Peg Norman
Peg Norman (born 1964 in Gambo, Newfoundland) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her role in the film '' My Left Breast'', which documented her partner Gerry Rogers' battle with breast cancer.
Background
Previously a social w ...
, the film documents Rogers' experience being diagnosed with and treated for
breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a r ...
.
The film was screened theatrically at selected documentary and LGBT film festivals in Canada and the United States, but was distributed primarily as an episode of the
CBC Television documentary series ''
The Passionate Eye''.
[ Rogers' tour to promote the film included an appearance on '']The Rosie O'Donnell Show
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This talk sh ...
'' in December 2000.
Awards
The film won the award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2001 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2001 Inside Out Film and Video Festival
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Film
* ''Inside'' (1996 film), an American television film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Eric Stoltz
* ''Inside'' (2002 f ...
, and the Gemini Award for Best History/Biography Documentary Program at the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001.["CBC News wins five Geminis at opening gala". '']The Telegram
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History
''The Evening Telegram'' was first published on April 3, 1879 by William James Herd ...
'', October 28, 2001.
The film also won awards from the Dallas OUT TAKES Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the Boulder Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 2001 and 2002.
See also
*List of LGBT films directed by women
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References
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2000 films
English-language Canadian films
Documentary films about cancer
Breast cancer
Films shot in Newfoundland and Labrador
2000 documentary films
2000 LGBT-related films
Documentary films about lesbians
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films
Canadian LGBT-related documentary films
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