The M-Factor: Shredding The Silence On Menopause
Sun Jan 19, 16:00 - Sun Jan 19, 18:00
The Labia Theatre
ABOUT
Shredding the Silence on Menopause
This film has an important message, and we’d love for you to join this important screening and movement.
About this Event:
The (M) Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause film explores the hidden impact of menopause on women's lives. Menopause has ramifications beyond just an individual woman’s well-being. The far-ranging results of women enduring untreated menopause include billions of dollars in lost wages, upended careers, family disruptions, and emotional chaos.
With evidence-based information, the film empowers women to make informed health decisions and aims to remove the stigma surrounding menopause and ageing.
This feature-length documentary film, centres on the lived experiences of women across the U.S. (and is relevant to all women across the world.)
Cameras follow women into their doctors’ offices, at work, and in their homes to capture the challenges they face—including racial biases, gender-ignorant care, inequitable structures and systems, and barriers due to the lack of basic midlife healthcare research. The women featured here open up about their experiences and share their stories of enduring debilitating symptoms while being ignored, ridiculed and/or shamed—and left untreated.
Now there’s a movement to fix the broken system, change the culture and transform our future. “The (M) Factor” turns the spotlight on the progress being made. With input from emboldened physicians, healthcare advocates and leaders in the menopause movement, the film focuses on what is being done to address this public health crisis and offers solutions that can be replicated in medical communities and workplaces across the world. More on The (M) Factor website
It's estimated that 1.1 billion women will have experienced menopause or be postmenopausal by 2025.
Screening Timeline:
16h00 – Welcome & Introduction
16h10 – Screening of the M Factor film (approx 56 minutes)
17h10 – Feedback & Discussion
17h45 – Closing
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Will there be parking at the Labia Theatre?
A: Street parking is freely available.
Do I have to be in Menopause to attend the event?
A: No. This film is educational for everyone.
Can I bring my children?
A: Yes, if they are old enough to understand the film.
Brought to you by filmmakers Coby Atlas, Tamsen Fadal, Denise Pines, Joanne LaMarca Mathisen.
