The Coolidge Corner Theatre

FREE and open to the public in the 450-seat Main Theatre

"When a loved one has only a long shot of surviving," four-time Emmy award-winning filmmaker Linda Garmon says in THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER, "you focus on the fact that he still has a shot. If the chances are 1 in 10, you believe he will be the 1." But Garmon's husband died, and she found herself on a quest to find out why. She returned to the same Boston-area hospitals where her husband was treated, and for six months, she followed the unfolding stories of other patients, their families and doctors. "In the first weeks of the project, I met a 38-year-old pancreatic cancer patient who said, 'Cancer doesn't fight fair,'" Garmon says, "and I knew right away that this patient had articulated the central theme to the project." The result-part science, part personal catharsis, part character-driven storytelling-is "The Truth About Cancer," a 90-minute documentary for PBS that will be shown in a free, open-to-the-public, sneak-preview screening on Thursday, April 10th at 7 pm. After the screening, Linda Garmon will host a Q&A.