CommonHealth Presents "Outside In" and Q&A With Filmmakers

Commonhealth presents Outside In and Q&A with star and director

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Meet WBUR’s CommonHealth Blog Hosts Carey Goldberg and Rachel Zimmerman at the first WBUR MeetUp of 2012 on Monday, January 30, 5:30pm. We’ll offer a light supper, followed by the screening of Outside In, a new short film about one woman’s remarkable journey after a cancer diagnosis. A panel with the film’s star, Dr. Kasia Clark, its director, Kat Tatlock, and CommonHealth contributors will follow. Free, limited seating Details at CommonHealth's website (http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/01/commonhealth-meet-up-outside-in/).

ABOUT

Synopsis: In the year 2000 at age 42, Kasia was shockingly diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. To reclaim her body and spirit after radical surgery and chemotherapy, she challenged herself with a strict nutritional regimen and extreme athletics, and studied classical chamber music performance with the Manhattan String Quartet. As part of her recovery, she made a series of short films with her mother and began documenting her ovarian cancer journey. Seeing the educational possibilities in the footage she had captured, Kasia joined with film professionals in 2002, to create “Choosing Your Life: An Ovarian Cancer Journey” (now called “Outside In”), a chronicle of her cancer experience that would marry her interests in art and science and serve to enlighten a wide audience about living with a life-threatening illness.

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/b/c/c/event_85511212.jpegCarey Goldberg has been the Boston bureau chief of The New York Times, a Moscow correspondent for The Los Angeles Times and a health/science reporter for The Boston Globe. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale and went to grad school at Harvard. For TMI on her personal life, check out the 2010 triple memoir “Three Wishes: (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Wishes-Heartbreak-Astonishing-Motherhood/dp/0316079065) A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak and Astonishing Luck on our Way to Love and Motherhood.”

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/c/0/8/event_85511272.jpegRachel Zimmerman worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, most recently at the Boston bureau covering health and medicine. She’s also written for The New York Times, the (now-defunct) Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the alternative paper, Willamette Week, in Portland, Oregon, among other publications. She is the co-author of The Doula Guide To Birth (2009), (http://www.amazon.com/Doula-Guide-Birth-Secrets-Pregnant/dp/0553385267/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282682202&sr=8-2) published by Bantam/Random House. In 2008, she spent the year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rachel lives in Cambridge with her husband and two daughters.

Kat Tatlock: Regarded as one of the region’s leading filmmakers, Kat Tatlock has written, produced, and directed dozens of award-winning dramatic and documentary films and videos for leading clients in a variety of markets, including many educational programs on health matters. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Sorbonne, Kat earned a Masters in Film at Boston University where she created her first documentary, “Pista – The Many Faces of Stephen Deutch,” an award-winning portrait of her photographer/sculptor father. Broadcast and screened in multiple venues, the film helped win her a coveted invitation to the Sundance Institute, where she developed her first feature screenplay under the guidance of leading filmmakers and actors. A champion of independent filmmaking, Kat served as the founding Vice President of Women in Film & Video New England. Her awards include the New England Emmy, Cine Golden Eagle, ITVA Gold, Telly, American Film, New England Film, EFLA, Mercury, and a citation from the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department for “Jailbrake: A Day on the Other Side,” a significant juvenile crime-deterrent program distributed to high schools throughout Massachusetts.

Dr. Kasia Clark, MD: After graduating from Brown University in 1985, Kasia received her M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. In 1993 she moved to upstate New York where she finished her residency in Family Medicine and with her partner, Julie Abrams, bought a beautiful country home in New Paltz. Kasia practiced family medicine at Hudson River Community Health from 1996-2007 and was on the faculty of a family medicine residency training program, noted for her role in caring for the underserved in her community.

In the year 2000, when Kasia was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer at age 42, her world collapsed. After her radical surgery and chemotherapy, Kasia’s mother encouraged Kasia to express her feelings to a video camera, resulting in a series of short art films –Marking Time: 3 Haikus, a trilogy exploring Kasia’s passions and nightmares, and Steppin’, expressing her pursuit of physical excellence in relation to the freneticism of 9/11. Sparked by the excitement of filmmaking, Kasia bought a video camera and began documenting her ovarian cancer journey.

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