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A Healthy Baby Girl

Original title: A Healthy Baby Girl
Year: 1997
Country: United States
Director: Judith Helfand
Screenwriter: Judith Helfand
Cast: Documentary
Producer: Independent Television Service
Genre: Documentary | Disease/illness
Synopsis: Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites us to witness her personal journey from radical hysterectomy patient to vocal opponent of toxic exposure. From her suburban home to the halls of Congress, the intensely private becomes widely public, and an American family is transformed and strengthened.

Awards: 1997: Melbourne International Film Festival: City of Melbourne Award

1998: Peabody Awards: Peabody Award

1997: Sundance Film Festival: nominated to Grand Jury Prize - Documentary U.S..

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A Healthy Baby Girl

1997

Judith Helfand