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65_Redroses is a 2009 documentary film about Eva Markvoort, a young woman from New Westminster who suffered from cystic fibrosis

65_Redroses is a 2009 documentary film about Eva Markvoort, a young woman from New Westminster who suffered from cystic fibrosis. The film follows Markvoort as she lives her life, undaunted by her disease, waiting for a lung transplant, while blogging about her experiences.
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1 Production
2 Release
3 Death
4 References
5 External links
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[edit] Production
The film began when Philip Lyall, a long-time friend, introduced her to his University of British Columbia film school partner Nimisha Makerji. Lyall and Makerji had been looking for a post-graduation project and decided to chronicle Markvoort’s wait for a double-lung transplant. They named the film 65_Redroses after her online identity, which Eva chose because it is common lore in the Canadian cystic fibrosis community that this is how young children with the disease sometimes mispronounce “cystic fibrosis”. Eva added 'red' because it was her favourite colour.[2]
When Lyall and Makerji began shooting, Markvoort’s lungs were so clogged doctors said that, without a transplant, she wouldn’t live to 2009. However, during a visit to a pumpkin patch the week before Halloween in 2007, her pager went off, indicating that a pair of lungs was available for transplant. This emotional sequence, for both the film subject and film crew, was instrumental in attracting the attention and backing of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[2]
[edit] Release
65_Redroses premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and won three awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival, including most popular Canadian film and documentary. It debuted on television on CBC's The Passionate Eye series and was acquired by the Public Broadcasting System for international distribution.[2]
[edit] Death
Despite early success following her double lung transplant in 2007, Markvoort died on March 27, 2010 at Vancouver General Hospital after a long battle with transplant rejection. Shortly before her passing, the 25-year-old theatre student received her degree from the University of Victoria at her hospital bedside.[3]
On March 25, Markvoort wrote the last post on her blog:
I am not managing, not managing at all. I'm drowning in the medications. I can't breathe. Every hour. Once an hour. I can't breathe. Something has to change.[3]
Markvoort had recorded an emotional farewell video on February 11, saying she likely had only days to live. In addition to her degree, she also received the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Doug Summerhayes award for outstanding commitment to the cause.[3]
[edit] References
^ "Bios & Credits". 65_REDROSES website. http://www.65redroses.com/?page_id=19. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
^ a b c Cauchi, E.D. (November 16, 2009). "Wave of inspiration". Eye Weekly (Toronto). http://www.eyeweekly.com/film/tv/article/77157. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
^ a b c DeRosa, Katie (April 1, 2010). "'Our beautiful girl' Eva Markvoort loses fight with cystic fibrosis". Vancouver Sun (Canwest News Service). http://www.vancouversun.com/health/beautiful+girl+Markvoort+loses+fight+with+cystic+fibrosis/2737145/story.html. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
[edit] External links
Eva Markvoort's blog 65 Red Roses
Film website
Watch 65_Redroses at CBC.ca
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65_Redroses_(film)"
Categories: 2009 films Canadian documentary films Documentaries about health care Films shot in Vancouver Documentary television films Documentary films about women

65 Red Roses up for Banff TV award a documentary about a Victoria, B.C., girl Eva Markvoort with cystic fibrosis and a powerful will to live,

65 Red Roses up for Banff TV award
26 Canadian shows nominated in international competition




Eva Markvoort, shown in image from nominated documentary 65 Red Roses, died in April. (CBC)

65 Red Roses, a documentary about a Victoria, B.C., girl with cystic fibrosis and a powerful will to live, has been nominated for a Banff World Television Award.
The documentary about Eva Markvoort, created by Force Four Entertainment and CBC, is competing for best social and humanitarian documentary with the TVO/Nomad Films production Empire of the Word, a four-hour documentary that explores the history of reading.
Markvoort died earlier this month, after her body rejected a lung transplant she had two years ago — a part of her life covered by the documentary that was named for her online moniker 65 Red Roses.
The two Canadian works compete with documentaries from the Netherlands and Sweden for the TV awards, known as the Rockies, which are presented annually at the Banff Television Festival.
Nominations in 34 categories were announced Wednesday from among 900 international entries.
Four CBC productions earned nominations, including Little Mosque on the Prairie, reality TV show Make the Politician Work and mini-series Diamonds.
An episode of Little Mosque is competing with comedy programs Scrubs, Two and Half Men and Curb Your Enthusiasm from the U.S., and U.K. sitcom FM.
The drama series category has U.S. programs Criminal Minds and Fringe vying for the Rockie with Blue Sky Blue from Norway, The Street from Britain and Radio-Canada's Mirador.
There are 34 nominees from the U.S. networks and 31 from Britain, as well as a handful from France, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan and Brazil.
The 26 entries from Canada include:
Le Printemps de Melie/ Molly in Springtime from the NFB.
Pitchin' In: Shrimp from Frantic Films and the Food Network.
Til Debt Do Us Part from Frantic Films and Slice.
Mastertracks from GlassBox Media.
Karsh is History, a documentary about the great Canadian photographer.
Documentary The Language of Al Qaeda (The Al Qaeda Code)
Reality TV series Ice Pilots.
Also nominated in the category for cross-platform project is the Olympic Torch Cam seen on CTV during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
The Banff World Television Awards will be given out in Banff, Alta., on June 15.Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/04/14/banff-tv-awards.html#ixzz0lZTvz5xI

Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) made famous by Eva Markvoort star of 65_Redroses

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Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver General Hospital's Centennial Pavilion

Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) is a medical facility located in Vancouver, British Columbia. VGH is the second largest hospital in Canada, after The Ottawa Hospital. The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH) is responsible for VGH.
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1 History
2 Facilities and amenities
3 Facts & Figures
4 Divisions
5 External links

History
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) first opened in 1886 as a nine-bed tent, its primary use to treat railway workers. On June 13, 1886, a fire destroyed the tent hospital and by July, a new, one-storey building was built. In September, the City of Vancouver took over the facility, which became the City Hospital. In 1888, located at the southern edge of the original Gastown settlement, a 35-bed hospital opened, as the tent infirmary becomes too small. The upstairs ward was for female patients, the downstairs ward for males. In 1899, the Vancouver City Hospital Training School for Nurses was opened. In 1902, British Columbia provincial legislature transferred control from the City's Board of health to a board of 15 directors. Vancouver City Hospital was renamed to Vancouver General Hospital. In 1906, in Fairview Ridge, overlooking False Creek, a new building, the Heather Pavilion, began housing staff and patients. The University of British Columbia Medical School opened clinical facilities at VGH in 1950.
In 1959, VGH opened the “Centennial Pavilion” (named in commemoration of the centennial of the founding of British Columbia as a British Crown colony, in 1858), which at the time was the largest part of the VGH facilities.
In the 1960's, VGH build Canada's first intensive care nursery, equipped with the first effective apparatus used for natural breathing in infants with respiratory failure.
In 1996, VGH opened the first three floors of its newly constructed Laurel Pavilion. In 2000, the Laurel Pavilion was renamed to the Jim Pattison Pavilion and construction of the final 12 floors began in 2001. The Jim Pattison Pavilion opened in 2003.
In 2004, the ground-breaking for new Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre began. This new building, adjacent to the Jim Pattison Pavilion, opened in August 2006 to provide acute day care services in a variety of areas.
The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, the world’s largest, most advanced and most comprehensive facility devoted to spinal cord injury research and patient care was opened in November 2008. The six-storey, $45-million centre is home to ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries) and is a partnership of the University of British Columbia the Rick Hansen Foundation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.
Ground was broken September 2009 for the new Robert H.N. Ho Research Centre. The seven-storey, 69,350 sq. ft. (6,442 sq.m.) facility will house three of VGH’s key research programs: the Vancouver Prostate Centre at VGH; the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility; and the Ovarian Cancer Research Initiative.
[] Facilities and amenities

Vancouver General Hospital's main pavilion, the Jim Pattison Pavilion.
VGH is the largest hospital in British Columbia, offering specialized and tertiary services to residents in Vancouver. The hospital accepts patients referred from other parts of the province requiring highly specialized services. Approximately 40% of the hospital's cases come from outside the Vancouver region.
In addition to providing specialized and tertiary medical services, VGH is also a teaching hospital in affiliation with the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, providing training and advanced education to students from all disciplines. Unique in Canada is the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre at VGH which includes the UBC Faculty of Medicine facilities. The facility houses teaching space for about 250 third and fourth year medical students and 500 postgraduate residents, and nine Faculty of Medicine programs as well as the UBC medical school library.
VGH's main cafeteria, Sassafras Cafeteria, is located on the second floor of the Jim Pattison Pavilion. The Jim Pattison Pavilion also has a café at its main entrance called Café Ami.
Facts & Figures
•One emergency department •18 operating rooms •62 outpatient clinics •25,000 inpatient (overnight) visits per year •297,000 clinic visits per year •69,000 emergency department visits per year •33,500 outpatient and inpatient surgical cases per year
Divisions
Alzheimer Clinic
Anxiety Disorders Unit
BC Injury Prevention Centre [1]
Centre for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Risk Factor Management
Breastfeeding Centre
Domestic Violence Program and Outpatient Clinic
Eye Care Centre
Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Mary Pack Arthritis Centre
Trauma Services/Orthopedic Trauma Service
Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
CIBC Centre for Patients and Families [2]
Prostate Education and Research Centre [3]
Short Term Assessment and Treatment Centre (STAT)
Skin Care Centre [4]
Work Adjustment Program
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute [5]
Centre for Hip Health
[edit] External links
Vancouver Coastal Health - VGH
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation
GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre
Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

U.S. broadcast of 65_redroses!.

U.S. broadcast of 65_redroses
Mar. 31st, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Cracking the U.S. television market is challenging. It appears many Americans would like to view the (full length) version of the film. Networks can purchase the right to broadcast the film from the production company that helped produce the film. Interested individuals should lobby the networks to do this. U.S. Networks should contact: Rob Bromley Executive Producer of 65_RedRoses & President of Force Four Entertainment rob@forcefour.com Tel: 604.669.4424

Eva Dien Brine Markvoort of 65 Red Roses Obituary. :(!!

Eva's Obituary
Apr. 7th, 2010 at 4:38 PM

“full of love and hope and the colour red, … your girl, eva”
Eva Dien Brine Markvoort … what a life! She lived passionately, with purpose, and died on Saturday, March 27. She left a legacy of love and made a difference in the lives of thousands of people both in her personal life and in her online community. Eva’s life, almost 26 years long, was defined by her challenges related to cystic fibrosis. She knew how to live for the moment and her magnetic personality drew people in at every turn. Eva took nothing for granted and she had no time for complainers. Her life was full of vibrant moments and she appreciated all the beautiful aspects of her surroundings, constantly adjusting to the limitations presented by her health. Eva filled every room she entered, she engaged herself in the present and she learned to turn the most challenging situations into positive experiences. She was a force! Eva has enriched the lives of her parents, Janet Brine and Bill Markvoort, her siblings Annie and Hunter, her loving extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins, and her dearest core ‘team’. Eva's family expresses their gratitude for the tremendous support provided by friends, family, neighbours, colleagues, the medical team, and Eva's online community. In lieu of flowers, donations in Eva’s memory to the Vancouver Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will be gratefully accepted at www.cfvancouver.ca . All who read this are also encouraged to register as an organ donor at www.transplant.bc.ca . For her online community, Eva’s Celebration of Love will be streamed online on April 30 beginning at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
“The greatest thing you will ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return” Moulin Rouge

RIP Eva Markvoort of "65 red roses" :(

Eva Markvoort gave all her life away The young actress with cystic fibrosis shared her life and

her final weeks with the worldBY DOUGLAS TODD, VANCOUVER SUN APRIL 1, 2010

Beautiful, vivacious Eva Markvoort proved an accomplished actress in the theatre department at the University of Victoria. But when she began applying for roles beyond the campus, she often didn't receive the final call.Directors told the talented actress they worried she would at unexpected times cough, have trouble breathing or not be able to show up for rehearsal, due to her lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.As Eva's disappointment expanded, film and theatre friends began telling the New Westminster-raised actress she was forgetting there was a far bigger role in which she should star.The story of her life.In the end, Eva became an icon of strength in the midst of suffering to countless people around the world: By fearlessly telling the harrowing story of what it is like to exist with the rare genetic disease.Eva played out her role in many ways, including through the award-winning documentary made about her double-lung transplant in 2007, in which viewers literally saw inside her troubled body.Eva enjoyed that the two-year-old film was called 65 Red Roses, since "65 red roses" was a child's malapropism for "cystic fibrosis." And she adored the flower. Organ transplants increased after the documentary aired.Perhaps more impressively, in the past two years Eva connected with more than a million Internet readers and viewers through her blog, also called 65 Red Roses, by revealing in intimately frank detail what it was like each day for her to live and, as she would often write online: "love, love, love."In the past six weeks, the tragically beautiful story of Eva's life came to a climax.Eva decided to reveal to her worldwide community of Internet followers, which was particularly strong in Canada, the U.S. and Europe (especially Poland), what it was like to be a few weeks from death's door.Eva's parents, Bill Markvoort and Janet Brine, talked about the remarkable short life of their daughter on Wednesday in their home in New Westminster, on what would have been Eva's 26th birthday.More than 20 of Eva's friends, many from the theatre community, were coming to the Markvoort-Brine home later in the day to mark the anniversary, with a party.Moving among rooms stacked with letters and cards from Eva's online admirers, Bill described the moment in February when their strong-willed daughter told them to gather around her VGH bed to make a video for her blog.No one in the family knew what was going on. "She could be a bit imperious. A bit of a diva," said Bill. When Eva wanted something, she got it.With the camera rolling and her family hugging close beside her, gaunt Eva suddenly began to talk about how she was soon going to die. Her agonizing battle was ending.She loved everyone.Within hours of the video going onto the 65 Red Roses site, a tsunami of affection swept through the Internet.Eva's last spoken words to her web community immediately drew more than 150,000 page views, in less than 24 hours. Tens of thousands more people would click with each passing day.They still are, even with Eva passing away last Saturday in Vancouver General Hospital, waiting in vain for a donor so she could have a second double-lung transplant.* * *The walls of the large living-room in Eva's long-standing family home in the Queen's Park neighbourhood of New Westminster were this week blanketed from floor-to-ceiling with cards, letters, drawings, poetry, prayers, paintings, collages, mosaics and other gifts from Eva's horde of far-flung well-wishers.The living room included a bed, which was itself smothered with cards and gifts. This had been Eva's bedroom during her many rough months, in which she was linked up to tubes and ingesting painkillers and other medications.Of the thousands of gifts that have arrived for Eva through the family mailbox, the most common image is a red heart, in every shape, size and variation.Eva's death is making news headlines this week across Canada and in Europe."It's been unbelievable. It's so overwhelming," said Bill, vice-president of Probyn Log Ltd., sitting with his wife, Janet, principal of Peace Arch Elementary School, who spent the past seven weeks sleeping in Eva's hospital room.Eva's parents have been reluctant to speak to the media, but decided to talk to The Vancouver Sun about their daughter, whose Internet life began four years ago.That's when Eva began a private blog to keep in touch with others with Cystic Fibrosis, which strikes roughly one in 2,000 people, mostly of European extraction.Due to the complex infectious nature of the illness, medical specialists strongly discourage people with CF from spending any time in each other's company.But, after a while, Eva opened her site beyond the CF community, to the public.At first Janet was against the idea. "But eventually I came around. I could see it was a real focus for Eva. It was benefiting her and others."The page views and comments on 65 Red Roses began mounting at a feverish pace. Eva was having an impact far greater than expected.In their living room, the parents told a few of the many remarkable stories about how Eva inspired an online network.One story was of a suicidal U.S. woman who said she was "saved" after watching Eva online. The despairing woman couldn't help but be inspired by the strength Eva showed; living with someone else's lungs, which frequently become overpowered by mucous. The family ended up meeting the woman.Another account of Eva's Internet influence revolved around the hundreds of letters she received from black students in gang-infested ghettos of Los Angeles. An L.A. school administrator had encouraged students at 18 schools to follow Eva's blog, from which he wrote they learned no one was "worthless," and they themselves became "more empathetic."There were also many young men who fell in love online with Eva, confessing their unrequited desire to rescue the brave, sensual young woman from the unfairness of her terminal ordeal.In general, Bill found young men and women responded incredibly to Eva's blog, in part because for many of them it was their first grave experience of the dying process, particularly with someone their age.There were also, as expected, many, many patients and families struggling with cystic fibrosis who considered Eva a heroine.Perhaps most intriguingly, Eva became a media star in Poland.She was a top story on newspapers and on TV in the country of 38-million people, to the extent that a Polish TV crew came and filmed a story about her during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.The family, including brother, Hunter, and sister Annie, were asked to give a rough idea of what kinds of people had been sending the tens of thousands of comments Eva received on 65 Red Roses.The family estimated about 10 per cent of the blog's traffic came from people struggling with Cystic Fibrosis. The rest came from "healthy" people, many from Canada, but with about 25 per cent from the United States and another 15 per cent from Poland.Trying to understand the mystery of the Polish phenomenon, Bill had a few theories.The documentary about Eva aired at least twice on Polish TV, which doesn't' have as many channels as in North America, he said. Nor does Poland have a health care system, he said, that can afford lung transplants. As well, "Eva" is a common Polish name, even while "Markvoort" is Dutch.Bill and family believe, in addition, that Eastern Europeans may have a more open and healthy attitude than North Americans to difficult and "dark" themes, such as the life and death struggles of Eva.Whatever the case involving the Poles, Bill found Eva's widespread Internet community astounding."I think the Internet is the most powerful thing imaginable. It provides immediate contact. It creates circles of friendship."* * *In addition to exposing her vibrant life and passions on the world wide web, Eva received many accolades in her short life.Hearing of her troubles, the University of Victoria decided to rush through her bachelor's degree in fine arts in February, even though she had not quite finished her electives.The House of Commons was told of her death this week. She had already received the Queen's Jubilee Service Award.Meanwhile, the documentary, 65 Red Roses, continues to be aired around the world, including again this Friday evening in Canada on CBC.The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, as well, gave Eva its prestigious Summerhayes Award in March, for raising awareness. As a result of her online influence, the foundation will be switching much of its educational and outreach campaigns to the Internet.Bill choked up as he read out a tiny sampling of the letters people have written Eva, including how she was "remarkable and strong." They thanked her for "giving all her love away" and being "one of the most beautiful people I've ever been able to know."Bill and Janet said they feel a duty to respond publicly to the outpouring for their daughter. But, eventually, Bill said, the family will likely return to a more private life.Just as Bill finished speaking, the mail carrier dropped another two dozen brightly coloured cards and letters through the family mailbox.Some had red hearts.dtodd@vancouversun.comRead Douglas Todd's blog at www.vancouversun.com/thesearch