Documentary Short · 2015 · 18 min
Lady Ganga
Nilza’s Story
A world record. A health clinic. A life saved.
The Mission
Michele Baldwin, a 45-year-old mother of three diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer, paddleboarded over 700 miles down the River Ganga in India — breaking a world record and spreading awareness about the disease.
A six-minute version of her story was shown to women in a remote Himalayan village in Ladakh.
It inspired them to visit a health clinic — where a precancerous lesion was found and removed from a woman named Nilza, saving her life.
Recognition
Grand Prize — Flickers’ International Humanitarian Award
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Partnership
The film inspired a Bulova special-edition timepiece partnership with the American Cancer Society.
Credits
- Directed by
- Frederic Lumiere
- Written by
- Mark Hefti
- Music by
- Lisbeth Scott
A Lumiere Media Production