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Los Angeles Film Festivals Show They Have Heart in 2013
Life Changing Moments, a moving documentary about the medical mission of yank surgeon Dr. Sherry Thomas to aid women in Uganda experiencing fistula has won two prizes at upcoming Southland film festivals: First place for Best Documentary Short in the La Cinema Festival of Hollywood and 3rd devote exactly the same category on the Sunset Film Festival of L . a ..
A public screening from the film will be held in the Sunset Festival on May 12, 6 PM on the White Fire Theater, 13500 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. For tickets visit: https://sites.google.com/site/sunsetfilmfestivallosangeles/tickets
Also, in the same location in Sherman Oaks, the film will be shown as part of the LA Cinema Festival on July 3. For details and tickets, go: www.hollywoodcff.com/ Next year, Dr. Thomas, who is additionally a urogynecologist with a practice inside the La area, traveled to Uganda on the invitation of renowned African singer and women’s advocate Halima Namakula. Ms. Namakula asked Dr. Thomas on her assistance in treating impoverished females and their much needed surgeries for fistula repair.
I knew what life was similar to a third world country, says Dr. Thomas, but I wasn’t prepared for what medical care was like. After i realized how easy it had been to correct these women’s problems, I needed to help.
Dr. Thomas invited filmmaker Sandra Mohr and Los Angeles Times journalist Wendy Thermos along with her around the vacation to generate the a movie about the experience. The documentary follows Dr. Thomas’ efforts to provide free medical care to Ugandan women battling with fistula, an opening inside the birth canal brought on by prolonged labor that has devastating consequences, both medical and social.
The nightmare of just living with fistulas is rare in the western world as a result of our advanced medical care. But in Africa, no less than 2 million women are living with this condition. Many times, the would-be mother becomes an outcast in their community because of severe incontinence, and is rejected by her husband and left to languish alone without friends. Uganda gets the 3rd highest rate of fistula in the world.
The film focuses on the medical and human journey of both as a famous and African woman through their experiences with fistula, showing how services in African countries compare with free airline. The 18-minute film can be looked at in the non-profit organization’s website http://LifeChangingMoments.org.
In providing this life-changing surgery for your women of Uganda Dr. Thomas herself had a life-changing moment, and founded a non-profit organization, Life Changing Moments, to assist more women in Africa.
The cost for this form of surgical treatment is only $50-$200 U.S. dollars per patient, Dr. Thomas said. And yet it's truly life-changing for women who is able to now be reunited using their families. Our online charity makes it easy to assist and it is a great way to support this work continuing. Donations towards the non-profit can be created at http://lifechangingmoments.org/category/donations/
Contact: Shirley Louis, 818/991-0988 Life Changing Moments e-mail: lifechangingmoments.org(at)gmail.com website: http://LifeChangingMoments.org. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNIC-vkSlsg
