Dear Talula

The intimate, highly personal nonfiction film Dear Talula documents a crisis that arose in director Lori Benson's life, shortly after she gave birth. As a new mother enjoying the vicissitudes of maternity, Benson suddenly received a call from her physician with the diagnosis of stage two breast cancer, that required a critical operation in a little over a week. The film follows Benson as she charts the complex and often confusing emotional landscape that ensues, with all of the requisite de...