PINK PADDLERS screening in TORONTO . – . // .3rd October 2009
We are happy to share the wonderful news that our documentary film “PINK PADDLERS” will be featured at the Canadian Sports Film Festival 2009.
We hope that our friends in Canada (particularly the ladies from teams Abreast In A Boat Toronto, Canadians Abreast Breath’N Fire, Canadians Abreast Spitfire, Canadians Abreast Warriors, Island Breaststrokers, and International Pink Sisters) and their families, will have a chance to come and watch the film and relive their battle glories!
Cancer organizations and groups in Toronto may also wish to encourage their members and supporters to watch our film at Innis Hall as part of their on-going programs that raise cancer awareness and encourage healthy lifestyle through sports after cancer.
Here are the details:
Film Title: Pink Paddlers
What: Canadian Sports Film Festival
(Further screening details will be updated in a week’s time at www.sportfilmfestival.ca)
When: Saturday, October 3 at 4pm
Where: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto ON, M5S 1J5
Location info:
Innis Town Hall is located within Innis College on the University of Toronto’s downtown campus, at the NW corner of St. George Street and Sussex Avenue, just south of Bloor Street. It is within a five minute walk from the nearest subway stop, St. George Station . Please check out: www.utoronto.ca/townhall/contact.html for pictures and further directions.
For more details, please e-mail Russell Field, Executive Director, CSFF at russell@sportfilmfestival.ca
love + light,
suzette & jasmine!
Add comment September 8, 2009
Kudos from the public for LIFEWATCH series
Back by popular demand, LIFEWATCH will be telecast on Channel 8, starting Fri 11 Sept, 8.30pm to 9pm.
It will run for 7 consecutive episodes, and also includes a new commissioned episode featuring the story behind the first-ever double-organ transplant procedure in Asia.
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Lifewatch gets thumbs-up from PACE Comittee
The Programme Advisory Committee for English Programmes (PACE) was appointed by the Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts in 2007.
For its 12th biennial report on the state of broadcast content in Singapore, the 36-member committee looked at radio and television programmes from August 2007 to July 2009. PACE was generally pleased to observe that broadcasters have been introducing programmes with info-educational value, such as Unexpected Access and Lifewatch.
Lifewatch on Channel 5 was also endorsed by the committee as a Choice Programme under the News, Current Affairs and Info-Educational Programmes category. While Lifewatch does contain some graphic images, it is nonetheless well-produced and able to be informative and moving at the same time, as viewers are shown the plights of the patients and the treatments they undergo.
Please click on the following link to read the committee’s report on the MDA website: http://www.mda.gov.sg/wms.www/thenewsdesk.aspx?sid=969
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Letter from Lim Weiqi printed in TODAY Voices // Thursday, March 26 ‘09
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Viewer feedback submitted on 2009/04/04 at 12:01am
I m Susan , my hushand Sam was a Liver Cirrohosis patient and was suppose to have a transplant .The show had been very interesting to him , espcially, when he saw a transplant patient at the most cruially monment for 46 days in SGH .He had his liver transplant done with the help of the medical team and it was done. He hope the show can be repeated to build those who in time need the medical team support .
PTL well done May God bring Blessing those who are in trouble .
A Great Great Thanks to the medical team of SGH
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Be Heard. Don’t just be the silent majority.
Do send your feedback to the following public forums :
If you have found this Media Development Authority(MDA) Public Service Broadcast fund-commissioned series to be informative and engaging, please do send your feedback to Mediacorp and MDA, as they will make the broadcast decisions!
https://mdaonline.mda.gov.sg/onlineservices/Feedback/FBSubmission.aspx
Add comment September 8, 2009
In Loving Memory of our Beloved Friend, Patricia Lim
3 Oct 1947 – 19 Aug 2009
With love always from the ladies to a Paddler In the Pink who will be missed
Add comment September 7, 2009
LIFEWATCH documentary series on Ch 5
LIFEWATCH
Now showing 9pm thursdays on Channel 5
Fighting odds minute by minute, second by second, what they do have far-reaching consequences on other people’s lives – LIFEWATCH, an up- close and personal look into the real drama gripping the lives of healthcare professionals and their patients, screens at 9 pm thursdays on MediaCorp Channel 5.
Over a period of four months, our team of producers has made Singapore General Hospital (SGH) their base of operation. Given unprecedented first-hand access to what goes on within our nation’s flagship hospital, the production tracks the rigours of what SGH’s medical and healthcare professionals face on a day-to-day basis.
We step into the neurosurgical operating theatre to see how surgeons probe into the brain of a tumor patient while he is awake. We witness first-hand how emergency personnel fight to resuscitate a cardiac arrest patient who had collapsed and been rushed into the hospital. We share in the joy of the nurses working in the closely-knit neonatal intensive care unit, as a “premmie”, a premature baby, is about to “graduate”, and cheer on a breast cancer survivor in her fight.
LIFEWATCH runs for 8 episodes this season and is supported by Media Development Authority.
The series is produced by threesixzero productions and executive-produced by Jasmine Ng who recently directed the documentary PINK PADDLERS.
The team would like to thank all the patients and their families for sharing their stories with us. Our thanks too to the staff of SGH for giving such valuable access. We are grateful for everyone’s support.
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SYNOPSIS FOR UPCOMING LIFEWATCH EPISODES
Airs thursdays, 9pm on Channel 5
EPISODE 4 (TX date : 9pm, thursday 26 Feb 2009)
Anaesthesia / Histopathology
He’s the last person you see before you are put to sleep for surgery and the first face you see when you wake up. Meet Associate Professor Lim and his felllow anaesthetists. Find out along with a fibroid patient and a knee-surgery patient why this is such a critical aspect of patientcare. Depending on individual patient health profile, Assoc. Prof Lim and the team must monitor carefully both with the removal of a fibroid the size of a large grapefruit and the delicate keyhole knee surgery, where the bone is shaved off with a small electric instrument, which the surgeon uses through watching a video monitor.
And at the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, we learn about Advanced Medical Directives and why there is common confusion between this and euthanasia.
Also, meet the guys in the backroom – the Department of Histopathology. From collecting various body parts removed during surgery, to slicing and dicing them, their processing and analysis of these bits and pieces ( gall bladders, colons, lungs etc) are a critical link to the treatments for patients.
EPISODE 5 (TX date : 9pm, thursday 05 March 2009)
OBGYN / Oncology – Breast Cancer Treatment
In this episode, we follow hospital clerk Morrin as she rushes to SGH – Today, it’s not for work, but to have her second child delivered through a caesaerean birth procedure by OBGYN Dr Devendra.
It’s always a wondrous experience to witness a live birth, but for some other parents though, whose babies are born much earlier than their due dates, it’s a much tougher start to parenthood. Meet another set of new parents, Merrylin and Jac, whose baby Zion, is a “premmie” – born 8 weeks premature and weighing only 1kg. Under the care of Neonatal ICU nurses Sister Khong, Nurse Tay and the team, baby Zion is given treatment to give him a fighting chance.
It’s heartbreaking to a tiny baby attached wth some many tubes and monitors, but with face-to-face time and the help of a “VIRTUAL VISIT” camera set-up, Merrylin and Jac learn to bond with their baby. See how doctors insert a “long line” - cathether – into tiny baby Zion to help with the increased injections of medication and nutrients to help him grow. Will he make it?
We also meet Siti, who feels that although she has had to visit the hospital too many times because of breast cancer, her treatment is made more bearable with friendly nurses who go the extra mile and family who are there with her every step of the way. We stay with her as she gets a “central line” inserted with the assistance of an X-Ray monitor for visual guidance, and accompany her to during her chemotherapy session – her fighting spirit will inspire many other patients suffering from breast cancer, which is unfortunately the number one women’s killer disease in Singapore.
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*UPDATE : final episode airs at 10pm, not 9pm, this thursday 26th March 2009, to allow broadcast of unprecedented footage access
* In this final episode, we feature patient Harry Wee.
Over several months, we waited along with Harry, while he waited for a liver transplant.
Time was running out – With no matching live donor available, he was literally waiting for someone to die, so that he may live.
With his liver failing and only given 2 more months to live, doctors and the hospital staff do everything to give Harry a fighting chance.
This is his story.
Airs 26th March 2009 at new scheduled timing 10pm on Ch5
4 comments February 12, 2009
In memory of Shin Na (1966-2009)
A Paddler In the Pink sister who will be missed,
but always remembered by her team-mates
shinscancerblog.blogspot.com
Add comment February 1, 2009
PINK PADDLERS dvd !
Many of you have been asking for copies of the film. Now here it is with much more!
So Share this film with the women you love and care about in your life
A film about breast cancer survivors & their passion for life + dragonboats,
the PINK PADDLERS dvd include various special features :
• 63min cinema version of film, Pink Paddlers
• 3 language subtitling options (English, simplified Chinese, Bahasa)
• “Memories” montage of the international teams at World Championship
• special tributes to pioneer Pink Paddler members
• Doctors’ Advisory on Early Detection & Treatment
• Breast Self-Examination demo
• PSA (public service announcement) educational trailer
courtesy of Irene Ng and Janet Goh of Breast Cancer Foundation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7741337@N02/sets/72157605204755502/
With the Paddlers in the Pink of Singapore cheering, a limited release of the DVDs was held at the 2008 Survivors’ Conference on 17th May, at the Sheraton Towers. The Breast Cancer Foundation organised this very successful Conference.
Once again, with all our hearts, we thank all those
who participated in the making of the film,
most especially the breast cancer survivors
from all over the world.
The following teams who participated in the First IPDBC Breast Cancer Survivor World Championship, will be sent a DVD, compliments of the Pink Paddlers crew, with our thanks :
AUSTRALIA:
Dragons Abreast Gold Coast
Dragons Abreast Hope
Dragons Abreast Spirit
Dragons Abreast Inspiration
CANADA:
Canadians Abreast Breath’N Fire
Canadians Abreast Spitfire
Canadians Abreast Warriors
Island Breaststrokers
CANADA / USA: International Pink Sisters
ITALY: Butterfly Rosa
HONG KONG: Dragons Abreast Hong Kong
MALAYSIA: Pink Challengers
NEW ZEALAND: Busting with Life
SINGAPORE: Paddlers In The Pink
SOUTH AFRICA: Amabele Belles
UK/LIVERPOOL: Pool of Life
In every way, big or small, we join hands to further the cause of breast cancer awareness throughout the world and hopefully in every generation.
LOVE + LIGHT,
Suzette and Jasmine
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• For pre-orders of the DVD, please click on this link for more details and e-mail Suzette Cody at suzcody@gmail.com
• For employee welfare programmes or dvd-donations to schools or health and social organisations, companies can contact Suzette Cody at suzcody@gmail.com for bulk-orders.
• see reviews of the film PINK PADDLERS here
1 comment May 23, 2008
a sad day for the Paddlers in the Pink
Our thoughts are with Yoke Chan’s family and her Pink Paddlers team-mates.
Rest In Peace – Chan Yoke Chan
Yoke Chan cheering on her team at the World Championships – screengrab from Pink Paddlers film
http://flickr.com/photos/7741337@N02/sets/72157604756163694/show/with/2445436409/
(pix from Irene Chui & other team members of Paddlers In The Pink)
Tributes from friends with fond memories : Audrey Ang and Susan Lau remember Yoke Chan >>
4 comments April 27, 2008
a life of love and light : Sue Hixson
(24th February 1943- 7th September 2007)
A pink paddler pioneer and so much more
It’s been an honour to have met you, albeit so briefly
much love and respect,
a friend always of all Pink Paddlers
2nd November 2007 -Thanksgiving memorial service – St. George’s Church
Add comment November 4, 2007
* upcoming screenings
NEW SCREENING INFO : 28th Nov, Wed 2007, 1900
@ The Arts House, as part of the Asian Festival of 1st Films 2007
more upcoming fundraiser screenings to be announced!
Add comment November 3, 2007
Thank you for your support of the 28th Oct Sun telecast of PINK PADDLERS! >> repeat telecasts on CNA, Saturday 3rd Nov, 8am, 1pm & 11.30pm
If you’d like to encourage the media to cover and showcase more of such causes :’ e-mail to >> stforum@sph.com.sg
and to send your comments on the Mind Your Body cover story or Cheung Suk-Wai’s article this sunday, ‘ e-mail to >> stlife@sph.com.sg
If you liked the film and feel it can play an important role in raising awareness about breast cancer, if you have been moved by the Pink Paddlers ladies’ stories, PLEASE SPEAK UP.
Do too, also post and share your comments on this website, and also on the CNA website >> http://www.channelnewsasia.com/discussion
And for the rest of you who did not manage to catch the film today , please be reminded that there will be repeat telecasts on Channel NewsAsia, Saturday 3rd Nov, 8am, 1pm & 11.30pm
For more info on breast cancer awareness and on joining the dragon boat team, click here , and do visit the Breast Cancer Foundation and the various cancer help groups.
We will update this website for info on future screenings : Please do also get in touch to help us get this film to your city, your country or to arrange fund-raiser/ educational screenings.
A special edition DVD will be available in 1st quarter 2008.
Thanks all, and much love+light!
* to post your comments, please click
1 comment October 28, 2007
