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A Fundraiser for BendFilm Festival Founder

Battling Cancer

Katie Merritt, who created the wildly successful BendFilm Festival in 2004, has begun treatment for breast cancer. It’s an unusually aggressive form of the disease which demands an equally strong therapeutic response. Doctors began chemo in late May; it’s scheduled to last all summer and into the fall. Merritt, 51, then faces a double mastectomy […]

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