Swell Cinema: Zeuf

“A poignant and inspiring film about breast cancer survival.”
Community Breast Health Project Newsletter, January 1996.

“This simple work reflects dignity, pride and self-assurance as well as a directness that is rare.”
Robert West, Charlotte Film and Video Festival

“A soulful, intelligent film.”
Women in Director’s Chair

SYNOPSIS
Zeuf is a breast cancer survivor. She is also a surfer and a nurse. “Zeuf” challenges the idea that one associates with breast cancer, representing a strong and beautiful image of life, a woman who has dignity and pride.

Length: 4 minutes
Format: 16mm, Black and White

BIO
Charlotte Lagarde, Producer, Director

Charlotte Lagarde's documentary Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai (2002) about Hawaiian legend Rell Sunn was broadcast internationally. In the US, it won PBS Independent Lens Audience Award 2003, the Audience Award at both the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Newport Beach Film Festival and Best Documentary Award at the Ashland Independent Film Festival.

Lagarde's productions Voting in America (2004), Every Child Should Have a Chance (2001), Tribal Sovereignty: Unplugged (1998) and Juvenile Justice: Unplugged (1997), are distributed in public schools throughout the United States, and the latter was screened at the White House for public policy makers. Lagarde's documentaries Swell (1996), about four generations of female surfers in Santa Cruz, California (Gold Apple from the National Educational Media Network) and Zeuf (1994), a documentary about a woman surfer's struggle with breast cancer (Directors' Choice award at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival) were broadcast on PBS stations and the Sundance Channel and are currently in distribution on home video.

Lagarde holds an MA in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University, and a BA in Political Science. She founded Swell Cinema in 1996 and teaches media study in high school. Lagarde is the executive producer of Reporter Zero, directed by Carrie Lozano (The Weather Underground) to be released in September 2005.

PRODUCTION TEAM
Charlotte Lagarde, Producer, Director

BROADCASTS
- Image Union, WTTW, PBS Chicago (May 1996)
- Sundance Channel (August 1996 - January 1998)
- Bay-TV (December 2000)

SCREENINGS
- Charlotte Film and Video Festival, North Carolina (March 1995)
- University Film and Video Assoc. Festival, Philadelphia ( Aug. 1995)
- Mill Valley Film Festival (Oct. 1995)
- Film Arts Foundation Festival, San Francisco ( Nov. 1995)
- Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey ( January 1996)
- Women in Director’s Chair Festival, Chicago (March 1996)
- Community Breast Health Project, Palo Alto ( March 1996)
- Tampere Short Film festival, Finland ( March 1996)
- Dresden Film Festival, Germany ( April 1996)
- Los Angeles Independant Film Festival (April 96)
- OUTFEST’96, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (July 96)
- Palm Springs short Film and Video Festival (August 1996)
- San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (June 1997

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