TV chef and lifestyle guru Sandra Lee came to the Sundance Film Festival four years ago to support a friend whose documentary about the Vietnam War was making its debut.
“I never thought for two seconds I’d be back with a film of my own,” said Lee during a recent telephone interview. Nor could she have imagined that she would be the main character in the 38-minute film covering her 2015 battle with breast cancer, which included a double mastectomy followed by an infection and other complications.
In the film, part of the Documentary Shorts Program 2, Emmy-award winning news and entertainment producer Cathy Chermol Schrijver follows Lee from operating room through recovery.