CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, April 19,2010 - In an effort to boost Pink Lily Cancer Care financial assistance fund for cancer patients, Canadian filmmaker and writer Monty Bassett will be showing two 45-minute documentaries at the Riviere Restaurant Theatre that were first aired on Discovery Channel.
Bassett said in a press statement that no tickets would be sold. Instead, he has appealed to theatre goers to make donations on Thursday. According to Lea Parris Cambridge, a breast cancer survivor who is the founder and Executive Director of Pink Lily, the money raised would go towards financing the treatment of Averil Mills from Gingerland.
According to the preliminary medical report established through medical tests carried out in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Averil Mills requires life saving chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Averil is a mother of four - Travis (19), Tamara (15), Andra (11) and Taniqua (7). She is the grandmother to four- month-old Taliyah.
Averil’s family members told Pink Lily officials that Dr. Shankar Ravi, who has closely monitored Averil’s medical process, said any further treatment would require Averil to undergo specialized tests and treatment overseas. He had recommended that Averil be flown out for treatment as early as January 2010.
Pink Lily volunteers, who on several occasions visited Averil, her husband Franklin and children at their family home in Rawlins, have established that Averil’s family efforts to raise the money required for her treatment overseas have not been successful.
Lea Parris Cambridge has thanked Bassett for his kind gesture during Averil’s time of uncertainty and need. Bassett said in an interview that both films have environmental themes, though each is about a total different subject.
Saturn’s Eyes is the story of what satellites are showing about the rapidly changing planet. From the Nasca lines of Peru to the Agent Orange spray lines of Vietnam, from urban expansion to shrinking polar ice caps, satellites are revealing secrets of our past and fears for our future.
Life on the Vertical is about a population of wild mountain goats in Northern British Columbia, Canada that live beneath the surface of the planet on the walls of Canada’s Grand Canyon, mountain monarchs of a subterranean kingdom.
Both films have won numerous awards and international recognition.
Well wishers can contact Pink Lily Support Coordinator at cell phone 6643306.
