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Planned as a follow-up to "You Don't Have to Die" the Academy Award-winning film based on the life of young Jason Gaes and his battle with cancer, which airs the same evening, "Kids and Cancer: Vermont Stories" visits with Vermonters and Vermont institutions that deal with kids who have cancer. Included in the 30 minute local program will be a tour of the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont Pediatric Oncology Unit and visits with Virginia Fry, a Montpelier art therapist who deals with grief in families who have experienced loss, and Ted Kessler of Montpelier, founder of Camp Ta-kum-ta in Colchester, where kids with cancer go for a week of summertime fun each August.
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Launched in 2014 by a group of filmmakers, archivists and concerned members of the public who wished to ensure the survival of artists’ films in Vermont, VAMP officially became a program of VTIFF in May 2015. The VAMP committee has broadened the initial concept to include all types of films and videos made by VT filmmakers or shot in Vermont.
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