THIS FREE VIRTUAL SCREENING AND Q&A WILL BE AVAILABLE TO SCREEN DURING THE FESTIVAL (DATE TBA)
It’s a simple fact that this country does little to address women’s healthcare needs.
Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis, explores the stories of women who are battling opioid use disorder (OUD) and are casualties of this neglect. Through an intimate telling of their personal journeys, the film exposes deep-seated and deadly gender inequities within the American healthcare landscape. The opioid epidemic is a women’s issue. This film treats it as such.
The screening will include access to a virtual Q&A with Emmy Award winning Director Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinika and a panel of distinguished experts at Northwell Health.
To gain access to this event, click the "RSVP" button on the top right hand of the screen and reserve your ticket.
A link to film screening and Q&A will then be emailed to within 48 hours of the start of the screening window.
ABOUT THE PANEL
Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinika, PhD founded Diva Communications in 1985. She has produced and written 21 documentaries of which 12 have been nominated for Emmy awards and six have won the honors. Dr. Gonsher Vinik’s films have aired on ABC, PBS and at film festivals around the world. Her most recent film Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis has been or is scheduled to screen at venues ranging from Hazelden Betty Ford Center to Washington State University and the 54thAnnual American Society of Addiction Medicine. It will be edited into a two-part documentary series entitled Listen to the Silence: Women Trapped in the Opioid Epidemic to air on PBS.
Dr. Gonsher Vinik began her career as a producer of Bravo Magazine and was head of production for both CBS/Fox Video and Scanline Video. For the last 20 years, Dr. Gonsher Vinik’s documentaries have concentrated on social justice issues seen from a multifaith perspective. Debra is also the secretary/treasurer of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, a 501 (c)(3). Dr. Gonsher Vinik writes a very intermittent blog on the Mincha Moment: Taking Time to Be Grateful website, which is devoted to the daily practice of gratitude. The list of things Debra is grateful for is HUGE, including cats, malted milk balls, painless dentists, fresh sheets, strong lungs, pedicures, running, Valentine’s Day, old friends, and good health, to name a few.
THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY KATZ INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH, NORTHWELL HEALTH
