How women around the world experience and address menopause - a critical and understudied realm of women's sexual health and reproduction.
SYNOPSIS
Internationally renowned experts and regular women from around the world share experiences of and treatments for menopause. Featuring doctors, researchers, and traditional healers from the USA, South Africa, Brazil, the Gambia, Denmark, and Japan, and addressing why this universal life transition is still shrouded in secrecy and shame.
Currently envisioned as a 90-minute feature documentary and open to exploring the project as a limited 6-part series.
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Director Sarah Schenck
Sarah’s mission in life is to enhance our scientific literacy, especially about our bodies, through entertaining and emotionally resonant films. She most recently founded, co-directed, and produced The Invisible Extinction, about the critical role of microbes in human health, which premiered at CPH:DOX to standing-room-only audiences, won recognition at festivals around the globe, and opened theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles. Celebrated by The Philadelphia Inquirer as a “must-see film,” The Invisible Extinction attracted accolades in publications ranging from People Magazine to the renowned medical journal, The Lancet.
Sarah was producer/director and on-air correspondent for the PBS weekly news program “Need To Know,” on the acclaimed episode “Saving Carla,” which focused on childhood obesity in the Bronx. For Parent Earth, a website she co-founded in 2009 to increase access to healthy food nationwide, she wrote, directed, and produced hundreds of original videos in English and Spanish. She also makes video content for nonprofits including Amnesty International, the Park Slope Food Coop, the NYC public schools, and the Supportive Housing Network of NY, where she served many years as Chief Digital Officer. Sarah, for her first narrative feature, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature Film Under $500,000 for producing “Virgin,” starring Elisabeth Moss and Robin Wright.
She honed her skills as a journalist with her past work for The New York Times in Rio and as the Senior Policy Advisor for Education in the NYC Comptroller’s Office, where she was honored with an award for Excellence in Public Service.
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