Not just a film, but a movement. The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause is a groundbreaking documentary that will empower and educate the 1.1 billion women worldwide who will be in menopause in 2025.
Menopause remains one of the last taboos in our permissive, talk-about-everything pop culture. Even though every woman will go through some form of this chemical “reordering,” menopause is still regarded as a condition or a disease. Most people understand it as just another “normal” phase in a woman’s life, a phase that is essentially dismissed as a mere bookend in a women’s evolution from puberty through the end of her reproductive years.
As a result, this transition has been inadequately examined. Instead, menopause has remained largely in the shadows, whispered in horror stories and overplayed in tasteless punchlines.
Women are fed up. It’s time to stand up and be heard! It’s time to create a society in which all women feel prepared for and supported in their journeys to and through menopause
“The [M] Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause,” a feature-length documentary film, centres on the lived experiences of women across the U.S. Cameras follow women into their doctors’ offices, at work, and in their homes to expose the challenges they face—including racial biases, gender-ignorant care, inequitable structures and systems, and barriers due to the lack of basic healthcare research. The women featured here open up about their experiences and share their stories of enduring debilitating symptoms while being ignored, ridiculed and/or shamed—and left untreated.
Now there’s a movement to fix the broken system, change the culture and transform our future. “The [M] Factor” turns the spotlight on the progress being made. With input from emboldened physicians, healthcare advocates and leaders in the menopause movement, the film focuses on what is being done to address this public health crisis and offers solutions that can be replicated in medical communities and workplaces across the country.
“The [M] Factor” gives women, their physicians and their advocates a voice and a chance to be seen, heard and respected.
Watch the trailer:
ADELAIDE SCREENING
The live master series is heading to Adelaide for one night only on Saturday 29 March 2025. The film screening will be followed by a discussion panel featuring some of Adelaide’s leading voices in women’s health and wellbeing around Menopause, including Megan Hayward, Suzi Evans, Margherita Officer and more to be announced soon, as they dig into the deeper topics raised in the film.
Together you will unpack the real-life experiences of women, men, family, friends and employers and normalise the conversations around menopause together.
Tickets are $12 each (+booking fee)
For more information and all enquiries please visit The [M] Factor website.
What: The [M] Factor Film: Shredding the Silence on Menopause
When: Saturday 29 March 2025 | 2.30pm – 5pm
Where: Piccadilly Cinema | 181 O’Connell Street North Adelaide,
Who: 16+ years (under 16 with parent or legal guardian)
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Image Source: Women in the Room Productions & Take Flight Productions
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