October 02, 2010
65_RedRoses and Eva Markvoort honoured at tonight's Vancouver Film Festival screening of Leave Them Laughing
By
Katherine Dodds
Last year Eva Markvoort was honoured in person as the film about her life, and 65_RedRoses, the moving story of her double-lung transplant made by her friends Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall was the hit of the festival and won the Best Canadian Film Award and two others.
Tonight, a screening of a film called Leave Them Laughing is playing at VIFF, and tonight's screening is dedicated to Eva Markvoort.
Sadly, six months ago, Eva lost her battle as she waited on the transplant list after her body rejected her first set of new lungs.
Leave Them Laughing features the tale of Carla Zilbersmith: "Once a nationally-known performer of ballads, skits and self-parody, now fated by Lou Gehrig’s Disease to perish within months, the remarkable Carla Zilbersmith was diagnosed in 2007 and given less than four years to live. She will leave a teen-aged son, a few fans and students who adore her, and this 90-minute pre-mortem retrospective of a life lived fully, but far too fast."
Vancouver blogger Miss 604 chose this film to present as a VIFF sponsor. Both films feature women who are truly alive, facing their deaths. Miss 604 says "I made my decision based on the subject matter and the fact that the Carla was a blogger. In fact, this screening has been dedicated to the memory of Eva Markvoort of 65_RedRoses. These women both blogged about their illnesses and shared their struggles and inspirational attitudes with the world through the online realm, and through documentary films both screened at VIFF.
EVA'S LEGACY: 65_RedRoses; the Film, and the Movement For Organ Donation
What Eva accomplished with the extra few years the first set of new lungs, was truly remarkable, and inspiring doesn't really quite cover it.
We wish Eva was here. But her dream is still here and our hope at Hello Cool Wolrd is that the sale of the DVDs we are helping to distribute will fuel a world wide movement for organ donation in Eva's name. Because that is what she wanted.
Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall, Directors 65_RedRoses
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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