“I truly believe that if menopause hadn’t been such an off-limits topic when I first started experiencing symptoms, I would’ve had an easier transition,” shared actress Naomi Watts. Halle Berry recently stood outside the U.S. Capitol and yelled, “I’m in menopause.”
While the celebrity attention is chipping away at the stigma around menopause, a groundbreaking new documentary – The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause – is transforming the conversation even more profoundly. The film shares much needed information and empowers women around the world to bring the conversation around menopause into the mainstream.
For executive manufacturers Joanne Lamarca Mathisen, former television director at NBC’s Today Show as Tamsen Fadal, awarded journalist, factor M is a deeply non -public project. The women fought with menopausal symptoms and felt frustrated by the lack of information, solutions, solutions, solutions, and to be them.
“We learned that if we were women with knowledge that knew about menopause, then we could be the only ones who suffer and face,” Mathisen explains.
Armed with their storytelling skills, Mathisen bought a new iPhone, and the duo took to the streets to interview women. “We grabbed any woman who would talk to us,” says Mathisen. “We even wore T-shirts that read ‘It’s Not Me, It’s (Me)no pause’ and Tamsen would interview and I would shoot.”
“The more women I met, the more I learned that we are facing a public fitness crisis: women without solutions, misdiagnosed and suffering in silence,” says Fadal. She finally made the difficult resolution to step away from being a presenter and dedicate herself full time to telling a story that touches part of the world’s population.
Mathisen and Fadal were brought to the women in the room productions companies Denise Pines and Jacoba Atlas. Armed with knowledge of a self-funded study on menopause, Pines pitched the assignment to potential sponsors.
“The target audience is what I call ‘super-consumption,'” Pines says. “We know what those women need and what they buy. Despite this, menopause is still an idea of an unmarketable topic. “I kept hearing, ‘Denise, Denise, who would need to see a movie about menopause?’And the idea that part of the population that will delight in it has no information!”
The turning point came when they connected with PBS, securing a platform to bring The M Factor to a wider audience. Without corporate sponsorship, the film was self-funded by its producers. The film premiered in New York City and its impact is significantly transforming women’s health. The producers have received more than 600 requests for screenings worldwide.
First on the M Factor, New York, October 18, 2024
“As a discoverer and physician, I know the importance of storytelling,” said Dr. Somi Javaid, discoverer of the HERMD women’s medical practice. “I watched the women in the audience screaming tears of relief as they felt heard and discovered a community, removing the feeling of isolation. “
The M Factor is more than a film; it’s a movement. The women behind the project believe the documentary will advance women’s health in several key ways:
Twenty years ago, the faces of menopause Dorothy from the Golden Girls. Today it’s Naomi and Halle. “Now that celebrities are talking about it, it’s classy to be Meno!” Mathisen said.
The M objective is to ensure that women entering menopause feel independent, informed and able to recover their lives. “I need each and every woman to know that she is not alone, that she does not believe things and that there are solutions,” explains Fadal. “We have to help women thrive as they age,” Pines added. “When women prosper, everyone around them is prosperous. “
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