Got Cancer! - Survivors Journey

When cancer strikes at a tender young age there is a huge ambivalence about what survivor-ship means to the one dealing with cancer and for those offering support.
This journey using the technical prowess of a mix of animation, stop motion and real life documentary will touch you aesthetically, amaze you with the seamless flow across boundaries of 2D / 3D & 4 D and mostly leave you touched by the simplicity and power of the words of these inspiring youth who braved the jaws of childhood cancer. The film depicts the strength , perseverance , endurance & wisdom that an impact to life by this disease or any traumatic event that shifts our core and reality can bring. In this era, we have all in our own personal journeys become survivors, we are battling demons outside and within everyday and surviving them based on our own will to survive . Survivor ship teaches us that we are our own saviors -It makes you want to stand up and scream- I AM - The Hero of my own story..

  • Ruhi aka Rohini Hak
    Director
    Director
  • Ruhi aka Rohini Hak
    Writer
    Writer
  • Ruhi aka Rohini Hak
    Producer
    Executive Producer
  • Vijay & Pritee Patil
    Producer
    Executive Producer
  • Akshaya Sawant
    Producer
    Creative Producer
  • Dhawal Pokle
    Producer
    Line Producer
  • Kartikye Gupta
    Editor
    Chief Editor
  • Aashay Wagh
    Cinematographer
    Cinematographer
  • Isabella Spadone
    Animation - StoryBoard Artist
    Story Board Artist
  • Garima Chawla Khurana
    Animation
    Animation Director
  • Akshaya Sawant
    Content Design
    Content Designer
  • Ashley Obregon
    BTS
    BTS all locations
  • Satyaki Paul Choudhury
    VFX
    VFX
  • Aalap Dipesh Desai
    Music
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Documentary, Animation
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 24 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Bengali, English, Hindi, Panjabi
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL,HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • The NewsFest (true stories)
    Las Vegas
    United States
    July 26, 2021
    Best Short / Best Human Interest Award
  • Crown Wood International Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    January 17, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Golden Bridge İstanbul Short Film Festival
    İstanbul
    January 29, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Milan Gold Awards
    Italy
    Italy
    February 10, 2021
    Best Short Film GOLD Award Winner
  • Lisbon Film Rendezvous
    Lisbon
    Portugal
    June 17, 2021
    Semi Finalist
  • International Rare Disease Film Festival - Berlin
    Berlin
    Germany
    February 28, 2021
    Screening Selected
Distribution Information
  • Hope B~LIT - A Voices Unheard Films
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Ruhi aka Rohini Hak

An engineer, filmmaker, writer, musician, composer and founder of a nonprofit for children, took the top award at the 2019 NewsFest-True Stories film festival for “Best Human-Interest Story” with her passionate film, “Got Cancer!.” It is a story of children battling cancer in India. She returns this year with two movies as a director, writer & executive producer. “Got Cancer- Survivors Journey” is one of them . A film which is again being nominated for several human interest social film awards. A director/ producer that makes a film and ensures with her sensitive focused direction that the viewers globally will be moved to hear the voices brought forward and the protagonists will be the beneficiaries of all that is gained from these films & their impact.

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Director Statement

The power of story telling is one that has touched us from the dark ages, even before we knew how to write or read perhaps. These stories were the basis of our culture , our traditions , our understanding of who we are as humans. We can see how connected we all are to each other in bonds we cannot fathom or view most of the times but when a story is heard we all in our humane ways react to them...This divine global power once felt is one that can create global impact. As someone who has worked with children all her life i feel this deep connection to how simple they view the most complicated things, how we must stop and listen to what they are trying to say rather than always try and teach them. The stories i found in this path just had to be told ...some stories are too pure and profound not to be shared...The hopeful and profound learning from my endless conversations with families , children and teachers globally as i traveled doing non profit work gave me these stories that are now coming onto the Reel...from the Real realms..I hope they touch all of you like they have moved me and my soul.