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Two Weeks Left of Sugar Babies Campaign!

By MikeH on July 10, 2012

Remember the story of filmmaker and D-Mom Jenny MacKenzie, who’s working on a documentary about life with diabetes called SUGAR BABIES?
Well, she has some updates about her project that features six families’ personal stories coping with different types of diabetes in America.
She and her team are now in the final stages of the filming process. There are just about two weeks left of a fundraising campaign that ends July 23, with the goal…

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Diabetes in Video: Snippets That Speak Volumes

By AmyT on April 24, 2012

A special premiere today of some exclusive video clips!
Who remembers our introduction of filmmaker and D-Mom Jenny MacKenzie, who’s working on a very ambitious documentary about life with diabetes? Jenny’s the creator of the award-winning HBO documentary Kick Like A Girl, so she really knows her stuff.
In the last few months, she’s been hard at work on her national educational diabetes film SUGAR BABIES, which highlights four families’ personal stories coping with different…

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Meet SUGAR BABIES: A Diabetes Film with Huge Educational Dreams

By AmyT on December 14, 2011

Why doesn’t the general public seem to care much about the diabetes epidemic? And why don’t most people seem to have a clue about the difference between type 1 and type 2? This lack of recognition is one of our biggest peeves, right?
Well, renown filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, mother of a now-14-year-old with type 1 diabetes, is on a mission to change all that. She’s hard at work on a full-length documentary film that aims…

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