Welcome to "Running For Life" Every year the Canadian Cancer Society, puts on the 12 hour event "Relay For Life". Running for Life is a new Documentary Series that will follow 2-3 teams up to and during the 12 hour event in Kingston,Ontario.  Join  The Production crew from DY Broadcast Productions, as we give inside information on 3 teams in the Relay For Life in Kingston, Ontario. 

 

 

 

                                             

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Running for Life: documentary aids in the fight against cancer

Posted Jun 9, 2011By Kristen Coughlar

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EMC News - In an effort to regain movement in her arm following treatment for breast cancer, Judy Thompson, began typing out family recipes on the computer, recipes that would later be used to form a family cookbook that would be sold to raise funds for the Relay for Life.

This inspirational story, and others like it, is a part of a documentary titled, Running for Life.

Produced by David Yateman Broadcast Video Productions, with the help of Payal Doshi, host of Inside the Purple Room, and Tori Rowbotham, the media library co-ordinator at Astral Media, the documentary follows three local teams up to and during the 12-hour Relay for Life event, which took place this past weekend at RMC.

Yateman explained that when a few people he knew of in the community were diagnosed with cancer, he began educating himself on the relay for life.

"It was harder than I thought. I couldn't find any information on some of the teams or how much the event in Kingston had raised in past years."

As a result, he contacted the local chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society to see if they would be interested in his idea for a documentary.

From there, Yateman was put in touch with three local area teams: Hannah's Hope, Conrad's Crazy Cuties and the Limestone Crushers Roller Derby League.

The team Hannah's Hope participated in the Relay for Life event for the first time last year, however, the family and its members have been participating in the relay for the last 15 years, as Hannah's Blossoms of Hope.

"Because our family is so huge, last year after my mom was done her treatments for breast cancer, my sister and I decided...we would start a second team of family members, that's how we got Hannah's Hope," said team captain Letitia Wilton.

In its first year the team raised almost $4,000, receiving the bronze medal for their fundraising efforts.

Speaking of the team's participation in the Running for Life documentary, Wilton said, "Cancer affects everyone everywhere, not just us. Even though it may not have touched you personally, it has touched someone you know...it (the relay) is something everyone should be involved with because it does affect you somehow in your life,"

"We're hoping that other families -smaller families, bigger families other families like ourswill actually get together and show what kind of family spirit and togetherness can do," she added.

That is precisely the main purpose of the documentary: to increase awareness about the annual event.

"(It's) to help raise money for cancer research with the Canadian Cancer Society, (and) also help to raise awareness of the Relay for Life 12-hour event across the country," Yateman said.

Running for Life will be available for viewing online at runningforlife.ca. A premiere date for the documentary will be set later this month.