All In The Same Boat: Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors

**News Update : 12/14/09**

NETA is the national distributor for All In The Same Boat: Stories of Breast
Cancer Survivors. Feed dates are: Sunday, December 13, 2009 @ 1800-1830
Monday, December 14, 2009 @ 1430-1500. Call your local PBS station and ask
them to pick up the feed so friend and family in another states can watch.

Hi again everyone! Although this documentary was filmed a while back, with the release of it in October on WLRN, it has touched many lives as we expected it would. Producer Shirley Ravachi shared this email written by Sharon Harvey Rosenberg (former Miami Herald writer who now is Senior Writer in Baptist Health) that we felt needed to be shared with all our friends.

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"Here are just 10 Things I Loved, Loved, Loved About the Dragon Boat Story:

 1. The photography: The Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau should have underwritten the feature because the documentary is like a postcard advertisement for the region. The sunlit water, the beautiful causeway shots, the pink carnations in the water: Amazing!!

 2. Martha Martin: Whenever I saw you on the screen -- rowing, exercising or waving -- I felt so happy and proud. You look amazing. Go Martha! Go Martha!

3. The importance of exercise: The video does a credible and incredible job of showcasing the beauty, benefits and healing power of exercise.

 4. Shirley Ravachi...wonderful story and narration. Does she record voiceovers for a living?

5. Individual stories: The vignettes about the different women: Shirley, Kim, Bernie, Marie and Gillian are brilliant. The diversity in ages, ethnic background and storyline really touches the heart and spirit.  The storyline is educational and heartfelt.

 6. Harry, the marine. We all need a Harry in our lives. What a drill sergeant, what a heart. It's was great when he said: "I don't see breast cancer survivors, but competitive women."

7. Team sport: The dragon boat provided such a great metaphor about survival, therapy and support. The line: "It's like a floating support group," could apply to so many situations in life, but it means so much in the context of education about breast cancer survival.

 8. The empowerment: The water, the exercise and the dragon of cancer represented the challenges, setbacks and the demons that could wash over us, but SOS dragon boat team demonstrated the tools, the therapy and the technique for facing the turbulence of life.

 9.The meditation: The spiritual aspect of the dragonboat showed how life, sports and friends offer tools for meditation, reflection and renewal. I loved the flower and candle moments of the documentary.

 10. The education: I felt educated on so many fronts: My emotional intelligence, awareness and health IQ were all uplifted from watching All In The Same Boat. "

Here are some production photos from this project:

Felipe Marrou filming in front of Baptist Hospital

SOS Crew hard at work

All the SOS Girls together

Producer Shirley Ravachi in her Breast Awareness Best

SOS Dragon Boating

Producer Shirley Ravachi & Director of Photography Felipe Marrou

getting ready to do aerial shots for the documentary.