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Are you in communications, marketing or a filmmaker with a Moonshot project? Mike and Sue have brought numerous impact films to fruition and they’ve generated significant real-world outcomes. They've had to learn how to do this themselves and now they are going to show you how to.
They’re embarking on a new project called Conquering Cancer.
They are going to take you on the journey as they roll it out. So if you're wondering how to take a story from concept to fruition, your in the right place?
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Hi, welcome to the Moonshine Moonshot podcast. We're here to move humanity forward and uh make an impact. So I'm your host, Sue Collins.
SPEAKER_01
I'm Mark Hill, and uh you know we're all about making an impact, making a difference. So Moonshot's all about reaching that impossible goal, like you know, first man on the moon. And we have our own Man on the Moon project happening right now, our big Moonshot, and uh we're hoping that you'll join us on this journey. We are embarking on our most ambitious impact film project date. And uh well, over to you so tell a little more.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, it's a super um exciting one because um, for those of you who are familiar with our work, you know that we've done a lot of projects in palliative care, um, access to pain relief medications, rheumatic heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, a lot of different pretty serious health issues. So um, and and a lot of those are unfortunately not happy stories. They've got positive outcomes that could be had, but they're not necessarily on that journey. Whereas
this project is called Conquering Cancer because for the first time in human history, there is an opportunity to eliminate a specific cancer, which is just quite extraordinary in and of itself.
SPEAKER_01
This is one of the biggest stories of our time, in my opinion. It's definitely the biggest global health story. The reason why is this is a cancer that you can eliminate, completely get rid of, but right now takes three the lives of 300,000 women every year.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, and and um sadly, like with all of these things, there are women in low or low to middle-income countries who just simply don't have access to the healthcare services that could prevent this particular cancer, and we're talking about cervical cancer.
SPEAKER_01
That's right, and in terms of lives lost from cervical cancer, 300,000 a year, about 600,000 diagnoses. So for those women who aren't in low and middle-income countries, you know, they're still having to go through the cancer journey, and now they
don't need to, and it's so exciting. So we're telling the story of how you eliminate cervical cancer. Uh, part of the eliminating of it involves uh, you know, vaccinations and doing screenings, which also have benefits to other cancers and other other diseases. So it actually means that the impact is even greater than that. And I've heard people compare the impact of eliminating this disease to getting rid of polio. That's how big it is.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, it it's it's huge and it's really exciting. And being Australians, we're very, very fortunate, firstly in our healthcare system, but also because part of the outcome for this to be made possible started with Australian scientists and research that happened here in Australia. And so that um is a is a really good news Australian story, which is exciting to be part of telling the journey on something like that. But also, I think we probably need to um just explain to people a little bit about how it's possible to eliminate a cancer and and how that's actually come about.
SPEAKER_01
Yeah, well, the reason that this cancer is uh possible to eliminate is because it starts as a virus, and if you get rid of the virus, you get rid of the cancer. So there are a couple of ways of getting rid of the virus. The first one is to vaccinate uh children and women and girls in particular, um, and the second way is to get screened. Uh, you know, some countries have paps measures, others have the newer HPV test or a combination of the two. Um, and if you get screened and quickly treated, that is also another way to eliminate this cancer. So we're looking, while there is that great Australian story as part of this, we are looking at the whole global framework and have been lucky enough to be working at the highest level, uh, including with the World Health Organization, to get behind and strengthen this movement to eliminate cervical cancer, to conquer this cancer, and what that means for health more generally, in my opinion, is massive.
SPEAKER_00
Well, that's right, and then so I think the story that we're telling, because you might be thinking, well, if it's going to be eliminated, what's the story really? I mean, it's a retrospective story about how this problem can be solved. But it it is also in order to meet the elimination targets
that the World Health Organization set forward. It sounds simple if you're in Australia and we've got fantastic health systems and we've got everything in place and we are well on track. But if you're in a lower-income country or a country with um, you know, all kinds of other complications, um, and the government hasn't embraced this challenge, or even if they've embraced it, they don't simply just don't have the resources to roll out a vaccination program, let alone a screening program, let alone treatment for women who are actually found to have the condition of um the cervical cancer. So the story we're trying to tell, and the reason that's an impact film, is because if we can help share information about how these programs can be rolled out, and there's some incredibly innovative ways that these programs are being rolled out, and if that can show other countries a roadmap on how they can embrace these opportunities for their own country, for their own citizens, then they have an opportunity to really make a difference as well in their own countries.
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Totally.
SPEAKER_01
So we're gonna demonstrate how it can be done, how this huge goal of eliminating the first cancer ever that currently takes 300,000 lives a year, but that can be eliminated in a generation. How do we do that? That's the impact we're seeking to make. I'm so excited about this. I mean, what a legacy project, just in terms of improving life. Uh, and and you know, it's not just the women who are affected by this, and it, you know, this same virus can cause cancer in men as well, uh, just to a lower level. Just think about all of those families so you don't have to ever deal with this
again. So we hope to take you on this journey. We're at the start of this journey. We're gonna launch this project in the coming months. We want to share with you how we've gone about planning the project, strategizing it, who we've teamed up with. And yeah, I just need to shout out to Santa Aranda who's taken us on this path. Santa is a global leader and activist in cancer control worldwide. She's amazing, and she's the one who you know encouraged us to do this story. We're working in close partnership with her and so many other amazing, brilliant, you know, activists around the world. I just can't wait to share the story of how this unfolds and how we can make an impact through telling this story. I hope you'll learn a lot by joining us on that journey too.
SPEAKER_00
And a big part of why we're actually sharing the we're doing this in this podcast with you today is because we want to take you on that journey of impact filmmaking and how you go about actually rolling out an impact film campaign. Because this is more of a campaign than just a film in and of its own right. So we're gonna take you kind of on that journey, and hopefully that'll provide a lot of learnings for you as well about how to reach an audience, how to define your project, how to find sponsors, you know, all the things that come together around impact filmmaking.
SPEAKER_01
Everything you need to know to make a film and make a huge positive social impact. It's not the only thing we're gonna be talking about in this podcast series, but you will hear us dropping in, giving you updates about conquering cancer throughout the journey and telling you exactly what's going on. Um, and we hope that you can learn from this and apply it to your own campaigns.
SPEAKER_00
Yeah, and we've got a little bit of content online already for conquering cancer, so you can find um a couple of really small videos that we've produced so far. You can um just go to probably Conquering Cancer on YouTube and the website will be out shortly. Hopefully, by the time this is out, you'll be able to find it on the website and we you know, subscribe and we'll be able to share a lot more information with you that way too.
SPEAKER_01
Absolutely. And what would be great is if you can ask us your questions. You might have some burning questions about hey, how do how did this come about? How did you fund this? Um, what's your strategy? How many people are you hoping to reach? How many languages are you going out in? Where are you capturing stories? These are all great questions. We'll be talking about some of it, but we'd love you to share your questions and your comments, you know, uh so that we can respond to those as we're going through this journey, hopefully, with you as well.
SPEAKER_00
So you can probably feel the excitement and enthusiasm from us, and we're hoping that you're also feeling excited and enthusiastic about the idea of eliminating the first cancer in human history and um how you can be a part of that journey.
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