For ten years Ann Murray covered the news – but for the biggest story of her life she turned the camera on herself. When Murray-Paige, a former local news reporter and anchor was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38, she decided to set up a diary camera in her bedroom. Ann’s video diaries, raw and true, offer an intimate chronicle of a young mother’s nine month journey with cancer. Never just a depressing medical portrait, Murray-Paige’s unfolding story is punctuated with humor and romance.

The Diaries is a real-time portrayal of the unique issues and juggling act that face the 1 in 7 women in the world who are diagnosed with breast cancer. Director Linda Pattillo, herself an award-winning former network news correspondent (ABC NEWS and CNN), spent 15 years covering wars across the globe. In The Diaries, she covers a far more intimate and personal battle - that of a young woman and mother facing a life threatening illness. The resulting documentary is an unfettered, unvarnished memoir of the year that changed one woman's life. 

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Breast Cancer Fund
Commonweal
Institute for the Study of Health and Illness