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Description: "I'm the first among our friends to have cancer...Many will see their future in the way I handle mine," Barbara Rosenblum wrote after learning she had advanced breast cancer. For the three years Barbara had to live, she and her partner, Sandra Butler, documented their lives with courage and frankness. The two women talk about their identity as Jewish women and as lesbians, and they speak openly about the difficult issues each is facing. Never once losing either its balance or its fierce emotional integrity, Cancer in Two Voices provides a practical example of dealing with death with sensitivity and a deep commitment to living. The impetus for Lucy Massie Phenix's work as a producer/director/editor on "Cancer in Two Voices" was the death of her sister, Spivey, to breast cancer in 1989. The documentary is an intimate portrait of two women who speak openly about who they are as Jews, lesbians, friends and lovers. This film was shown at Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. Biography: Lucy Massie Phenix is an acclaimed documentarist, working in the field for almost thirty years as an editor, producer and director. Her film "You got to Move"(1985), about the grassroots social change in the South, was chosen by the MacArthur Foundation to be in its video collection in public libraries throughout the U.S. She was one of the filmmakers who made Winter Soldier (1971), a documentary about and with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War at the Winter-soldier Investigation in Detroit. Prize winner at Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals, screened at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York City and televised once by WNET, but largely ignored during the Vietnam War by American press and distributors. Two years after Phenix worked on "What Do We Do Now?" she collaborated with six other members of the Mariposa Film Group on two hour classic documentary on the experience of twenty-six gay women and men in the US. Phenix worked in 1980 as an editor on award winning documentary "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter" a story of women involved in skilled trades during the World War Two. The impetus for her work a producer/director/editor on "Cancer in Two Voices"(1993) was the death of her sister, Spivey, to breast cancer in 1989. The documentary is an intimate portrait of two women who speak openly about who they are as Jews, lesbians, friends and lovers. Last year Lucy Massie Phenix edited "Regret to Inform", a deeply personal, yet universal portrayal of the lasting devastation of war through the eyes of women, Vietnamese and American widows of the Vietnam war. Nominated for this year at the Academy Awards for Best Feature Documentary and winner of the Indie Spirit Award and Sundance Film Festival. Other films Lucy Massie Phenix has pariticipated in include the following: Wintersoldier, l972 What Do We Do Now?, l975 Word Is Out, l977 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, l980 You Got to Move, l985 Cancer in Two Voices, l993 Regret to Inform, l998 Contact
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