How to Love Life Fiercely and Make It Count
Diagnosed with breast cancer at 23, writer/director Melissa Beck-Boratyn died in June at the age of 32. Her feature film, Ginger, reflects her experience. “I wanted to make a movie about a wild, messy young woman who gets breast cancer, because I knew there were other young people like me — but I couldn’t find them.”
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13 min readSep 9, 2020
