Quack doctors were quick to promote radium as invigorating and curative. Perhaps radium was the long-sought elixir of life, for that is how it was used. Added to this was the fact that radium glowed: a visible effect that was quite extraordinary at the time and led many to believe that it must have some magical properties. It was understood that radiation could kill cancerous cells, but its damaging effects on healthy cells weren’t fully acknowledged. Radiation was something that wasn’t well understood at the time but had positive associations. She is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.By the time Marie died, radium had taken the globe by storm. She discovered the story of the Radium Girls in 2012 while working on a documentary about the Manhattan Project alongside co-writer Brittany Shaw. Her work as a writer, producer and researcher in nonfiction television has fueled her passion for untold history and her commitment to telling the true stories of women who fight back. Ginny Mohler is a Brooklyn-based writer and director.
She has produced for many celebrated directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Wes Anderson, Wayne Wang, Gina Prince Bythewood, Alison Maclean, Ritesh Batra, and eleven films in a twenty-five-year collaboration with internationally acclaimed director Mira Nair. She is a two time Emmy Award winner and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014 for Cutie & The Boxer. Her most recent credits include Disney’s Queen of Katwe and HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lydia Dean Pilcher has produced over 35 feature films. Clapp received an award for “Science for the Benefit of Environmental Health” in 2006 from the Toxics Action Center and frequently speaks to community groups and participates in advisory committees to government agencies and academic institutions. He served as Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry from 1980-1989 and former Co-Chair of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. His research projects at UMass Lowell focus on analyzing data related to environmental and occupational causes of cancer and other diseases. The film made its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.īanner image courtesy of Juno Films About the SpeakerĪn epidemiologist with more than forty years experience in public health practice, teaching and consulting, Richard (Dick) Clapp is an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Radium Girls marks the feature directorial debuts of Emmy-winning and Academy-Award nominated producer Lydia Dean Pilcher and filmmaker Ginny Mohler, who co-wrote the award-winning original screenplay for Radium Girls with Brittany Shaw. Based on historical events, the national sensation following the notorious case of the Radium Girls in 1928 ultimately led to significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity. She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming-of-age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie’s world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. Based on true events of the 1920’s, Radium Girls stars Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Joey King and Abby Quinn as Bessie and Jo Cavallo, sisters who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they work painting luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey.
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