# R.O.C.K
Reaching Out to Cancer Kids with Joss Searchlight
Using real stories from children with cancer up and down the U.K. Joss Searchlight's #R.O.C.K - Reaching Out to Cancer Kids drama documentary was produced as a discussion piece for schools.
Written by Nigel Parkes and Tony McHale (Creator of Holby City), Directed by award winning film director Frank W Smith and with music by Brian Bennett (The Shadows), the film navigates the emotions and turmoils of a young boy recovering from cancer.
When a child has cancer, conversations go from being difficult to unbearable. How to tell a child they have cancer? And how do you tell a child with cancer, or their siblings, they won’t get better?
Named as a finalist in the Charity Film Awards it has been used in countless schools to stimulate conversation on how to be more accepting and sympathetic to children returning to school after cancer.
The film wouldn’t have been possible without the enormous help from all of our sponsors and a very talented crew who gave up their time.
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Ava was five years old when she died in 2020, after fighting a fatal brain cancer for just over a year.
Until shortly before her diagnosis, Ava was a happy, healthy four-year-old — excited about starting school, full of energy, entirely indistinguishable from any other child her age. There were no warning signs.
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Andy was a normal 8 year old boy who was so full of life. All of that changed in a matter of minutes on January 9, 2023. Our world was turned upside down by something we never even imagined happening
