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Published on 04/20/1998 All articles from this issue

AAUW to feature Interplast's Oscar-winning film on TV

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Town Crier Staff Report

"AAUW Connections" will present two programs on Interplast, Inc. on succeeding weeks. The first, Interplast's Academy Award winning documentary, "A Gift of Healing," will be shown on Access Los Altos, Channel 26, at 8 p.m., May 6, and 6:30 p.m., May 8.

The following week, Interplast's executive director, Susan Hayes, will be interviewed by AAUW's moderator, Cecilia Keehan in "A Gift of Love." Hayes talks about the work of Interplast, how it recruits volunteer medical personnel to perform free reconstructive surgery around the world and how it maintains and funds its current and growing program. This program will be shown at 8 p.m., May 13 and 6:30 p.m., May 15.

In "A Gift of Healing," a film crew followed an Interplast team to An Giang, Vietnam, a remote province in the Mekong Delta to document the medical team's experiences treating children born with cleft lips, cleft palates, and other deformities. In some countries, such children are often ostracized and forced to live in seclusion.

Mountain View-based Interplast, Inc. was founded in 1969 by Los Altos Hills resident Dr. Donald Laub.

For more information about Interplast, call 962-0123.

OSCAR NOTE: Meanwhile, Los Altos Hills filmmaker Kieth Merrill held a screening of his Oscar-nominated movie, "Amazon," before a showing of friends and supporters last night at the Imax Theater at Paramount's Great America in Santa Clara. The movie was nominated in the same category as the Interplast movie, Documentary Short Subject.