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' mondays at racine' highlights women' s emotional lives during cancer audie cornish talks with cynthia wade. she is the director of mondays at racine, a documentary about how some women deal with the physical and emotional scars from cancer. the short film has been nominated for an oscar .
cornish: cynthia wade is director of the oscar - nominated short documentary
mondays at racine .
cynthia, thank you for speaking with me .
cornish: at the end of
mondays at racine ,
you see another customer coming in to get her head shaved and it feels like, you know, the beginning of a cycle. i' m curious what has happened to the main characters of your story .
audie cornish talks with cynthia wade. she is the director of mondays at racine, a documentary about how some women deal with the physical and emotional scars from cancer. the short film has been nominated for an oscar .
now, our fifth and final conversation about this year' s oscar - nominated short documentaries. our final entry is
mondays at racine .
that' s a 39 - minute exploration of the physical and emotional scars of cancer. and it captures patients in their most vulnerable moments .
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cornish: you' re also catching someone like cambria at their most vulnerable. there' s a scene where she' s talking about her scars .
while working alongside conventional medical protocols, the mondays at racine cancer care program provides free salon & spa services to people diagnosed with cancer in attempt to reduce the stress, anxiety and side effects of cancer treatments. this program has helped hundreds of people each year face the challenge of healing with a gentle and modern approach. from head shaving, wig care, yoga, reiki therapy, esthetics, cosmetics and massage therapy, this program is about treating the whole person, not just the disease. the program has been modeled to become an offering for any salon and spa worldwide to provide and is currently in seven salons in the us .
sisters cynthia and rachel own a beauty salon in long island, new york, which they open free of charge to cancer patients once a month on mondays. they were inspired to do so by their experience with their mother, a cancer victim who felt her appearance changed dramatically as her illness progressed; with it, her proud sense of self withered .
wade: the good news is that the main characters are all alive. one will be going with me to the oscars, the young mother, cambria. and the other women will be having oscar parties at home. and in some cases, during the film, their marriages were tested greatly, but they will be in their homes with their husbands watching the oscars, and that' s the most gratifying part for me .
wade: well, cambria filmed that. i don' t think i would have included that scene had i been filming it. i think it would have felt too invasive, but the fact that she filmed herself in front of a mirror and then gave me that tape made it ok. when she first got a double mastectomy at age 36 - very unexpectedly she was diagnosed with an aggressive stage 3 cancer - after her surgery, she said to me quite chirpily, do you want to see my scars ?
wade: that' s correct. the owners, rachel and cynthia, they lost their mother to breast cancer at a time when people felt uncomfortable with shaved heads and watched their mother really withdraw from society and grieved over that. and women come through the doors once a month, women who are losing their hair, their eyelashes, their eyebrows, and they may get a makeover, they may get a facial, a massage, a pedicure, manicure, but ultimately it' s a safe space where everything is free. they do it on a volunteer basis once a month. and it' s a place where people can cry and laugh and connect with one another .
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every third monday of the month, two bold, brassy sisters open the doors of their long island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer. as locks of hair fall to the floor, women gossip, giggle, weep, face their fears, and discover unexpected beauty .
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every third monday of the month, two bold, brassy sisters open the doors of their long island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer. as locks of hair fall to the floor, women gossip, giggle, weep, face their fears, and discover unexpected beauty. oscar nominee, best short documentary, 2012. winner of three film festival awards .
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block: my co - host audie cornish talked with the film' s director .
cynthia wade, what was it like capturing these moments? i mean, this is a moment before a woman is deciding i need to shave my head .
cynthia wade: well, i think embarking in any documentary, you really are falling down a rabbit hole. you don' t know where the story is going. i followed women for about two and a half years as they were diagnosed - some were young women, some were older women - and followed the path of their illness and their fight against cancer. but it' s really not a medical film. it' s a film about their emotional lives and ultimately a film about their marriages and what the cancer does to their marriages .
cornish: essentially, the heart of this movie isn' t just how people deal with the cancer, but how women who are dealing with their sense of beauty and self - worth .
cornish: you feel like you' re being erased. i think that line really, really struck me when i was watching the film .
wade: yeah, it' s - why is hair so important? that' s really the central question in the film. in the face of a cancer diagnosis, in the face of potentially losing your life, does it matter that much that you' re losing your hair? and yet, it' s such a defining aspect of how we look and how we present ourselves to the world and how the world perceives us. and it was very disturbing for many of the women who would be going into a store that they' ve gone into five years prior with hair and they go in and they don' t have any hair .
they don' t have any eyelashes or eyebrows. and they' re not recognized by the storekeepers. they' re not recognized by the other customers. and it was so disturbing to them because, you know, who then am i in the world and how does the world see me? and if these defining features are being taken away from my face, how do i navigate that and how do i navigate my place in the world ?
my immediate reaction was no. and she said, why? and i said, i' m scared. and then i realized, wait a minute, hold on. if i' m making this film so that we can get to a place where scars are ok, if i, as the director, can' t see her scars, there' s something wrong. so i apologized to her and i said, you know what? that' s just - that was my fear and i need to get over it, and that' s part of the reason i' m making the film. yes, please show me your scars .
cornish: as you said, this is also a movie about marriage and cancer' s effects on people' s relationships, kind of who deals with it well and who doesn' t .
wade: yes. there' s so much pressure in that diagnosis that things really kind of explode open in many cases. and in the case of one woman who i followed, she' d had cancer for 18 years, and the cancer really destroyed her husband first, emotionally. and it really driven them apart. and while i was filming, they broke up and he moved out of the house .
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mondays at racine is a 2012 short documentary film directed by cynthia wade , about two sisters who open their long island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer , every third monday of the month . the film was nominated for the 2013 academy award for best documentary ( short subject ) . after being nominated for an academy award the film was released along with all the other 15 oscar-nominated short films in theaters by shortshd . 
mondays at racine is a 2012 short documentary film directed by cynthia wade, about two sisters who open their long island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer, every third monday of the month. the film was nominated for the 2013 academy award for best documentary (short subject). after being nominated for an academy award the film was released along with all the other 15 oscar-nominated short films in theaters by shortshd.
mondays at racine is a 2012 short documentary film directed by cynthia wade, about two sisters who open their long island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer, every third monday of the month. the film was nominated for the 2013 academy award for best documentary (short subject). after being nominated for an academy award the film was released along with all the other 15 oscar-nominated short films in theaters by shortshd.