Office of the City Clerk - Record #: R2019-831

• Record #: R2019-831
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• Intro date: 11/13/2019
• Final action: 11/13/2019
• Title: Recognition extended to filmmaker Melissa Boratyn on success of "Ginger the Movie" and advocacy efforts for breast cancer awareness
• Sponsors: Rodriguez Sanchez, Rossana

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
11/13/2019		City Council	Introduced (Agreed Calendar)
11/13/2019	9303	City Council	Adopted	Pass

City Council Meeting November 13, 2019 Alderman Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez Resolution: Ginger the Movie

Resolution

WHEREAS, October was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month; and

WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn, a Chicago resident who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 23 and now 8 years later continues her battle with metastatic breast cancer; and

WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn who met her husband Jimmy Boratyn during their undergraduate studies at Loyola University Chicago; and

WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn and her husband produced and directed "Ginger the Movie" as a graduate school thesis project at DePaul University in Chicago; and

WHEREAS, at the world premiere in September 2018 "Ginger the Movie " won "Best in Fest" at the 10^th Annual Ladies Film Festival in Beverly Hills California; and

WHEREAS, "Ginger the Movie" has also been awarded the "World Humanitarian Award" at the Queens Film festival in New York City; and

WHEREAS, after one year of winning countless additional film festival awards, "Ginger the Movie" will be released to the public to achieve it's intended goal of helping others; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, Alderman ofthe 33^rd Ward do hereby recognize the outstanding efforts of Melissa Boratyn to help others battling breast cancer and the success of "Ginger the Movie".