She filmed her own cancer diagnosis. The result? A 15-minute gut punch with jokes.
Filmmaker Kailee McGee’s world turns sideways with a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis. She’s in the middle of treatment but just beginning to reevaluate reality, love, and identity while being sick. Kailee loses track of where her cancer journey ends and her life begins. As the voice inside her head toggles between existential crisis and self-actualization, Kailee resorts to the only way she knows how to heal: figure out a way to watch a version of her journey unfold on a screen.
Direction
McGee directs her own breakdown with surgical precision.
Writing
Auto-fiction so sharp it cuts both ways.
Editing
Collapses documentary and fiction in real-time.
Director
Kailee McGee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
McGee shot during active treatment, blurring production schedule with chemotherapy cycles. The film's rushed energy isn't stylistic—it's biological necessity.
Part of a wave of 'sick woman' auto-fiction (Joanna Rakoff, Eve Ensler) where female illness refuses to be inspirational—just complicated, messy, and self-aware.
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