Mondays at Racine
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Original title | Mondays at Racine |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2012 |
length | 39 minutes |
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Director | Cynthia Wade |
production | Cynthia Wade Robin Honan |
camera |
David Teague Cynthia Wade |
cut | David Teague |
Mondays at Racine is an American documentary - short film from 2012. The film about a hairdresser in Islip on Long Iceland was in 2013 for an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Documentary.
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Sisters Rachel and Cynthia run the Racine hair and beauty salon in Islip, Long Island. Every third Monday of the month, Rachel and Cynthia give up their day off and open their salon to women with cancer who can get a haircut or beauty treatment for free. The film revolves around the question of why the loss of hair is often so traumatic for cancer patients when their whole life is at stake. Cynthia and Rachel help the women with wigs, fashionable headgear, false eyelashes, massages, manicures and pedicures. In the salon people laugh a lot, cry a lot, and talk about fears and worries.
Awards and nominations
- Independent Film Festival Boston 2012: Winner of the Audience Award in the Documentary Short Film category
- Academy Awards 2013 : Nomination for Best Documentary Short Film
Web links
- Mondays at Racine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- mondaysatracine.com
- Interview with Cynthia Wade on documentary.org