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Katherine “Kasia” Whipple Clark, MD – Executive Producer
Kat Tatlock – Producer/Director/Writer
Julia Eddy – Co-Producer/Writer/Editor
Cyrus Sink – Music Score
Dave Allen – Colorist/Online Editor

*Update*
Filmmaker’s Collaborative is thrilled to announce that “Outside In” has received seven prestigious Telly Awards!
Silver Awards: Documentary, Editing, and Motivational
Bronze Awards: Educational (academic use), Health & Wellness, Use of Music, and Health & Fitness

Synopsis:
A family physician for over twelve years, Kasia’s interests in science and healing have always been equaled by her innate artistic and philosophic leanings. Influenced by the mental illness of her sister, Jackie, and by her father, George, an MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics, she pursued a career in medicine. But her interest in art, engendered by her mother, Liz, a visual artist in New York City, resulted in a lifelong engagement in the arts and ultimately in filmmaking.

After graduating from Brown University in 1985, Kasia attended Mt. Sinai School of Medicine where she received her M.D. She then moved to upstate New York, where in 1996 she finished her residency in Family Medicine. With her partner, Julie Abrams, she bought her first home, in New Paltz, New York and practiced family medicine at Hudson River Healthcare, a community health center, from 1996-2007.

In the year 2000 at age 42, Kasia was shockingly diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. To reclaim her body and spirit after radical surgery and chemotherapy, she challenged herself with a strict nutritional regimen and extreme athletics, and studied classical chamber music performance with the Manhattan String Quartet. As part of her recovery, she made a series of short films with her mother and began documenting her ovarian cancer journey. Seeing the educational possibilities in the footage she had captured, Kasia joined with film professionals in 2002, to create “Choosing Your Life: An Ovarian Cancer Journey” (now called “Outside In”), a chronicle of her cancer experience that would marry her interests in art and science and serve to enlighten a wide audience about living with a life-threatening illness.

To hone her filmmaking skills and express her concerns about health care in the U.S., Kasia began filming “Election Diaries 2004” while en route to Florida to work at polls during the 2004 presidential election. In 2005, she took a course at the Maine Photography and Film Workshop, after which she enrolled in Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA), where she made two short films. “Arthur” expresses a man’s struggle to cope with his wife’s cancer decline through photography, and “How to Swim the Butterfly” is an instructional video where Kasia is both filmmaker and subject.

In 2006, Kasia relocated to Waltham, MA to sink her teeth into “Outside In,” serving as Executive Producer and Co-Producer with filmmakers Kat Tatlock and Julia Eddy (see The Film). She also practiced outpatient medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess, with Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians’ Affiliated Physicians Group.

For more information, please visit www.kasiaproject.com.