Jackson Hunsicker

Jackson Hunsicker was born in Philadelphia and graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has written for film and television and has directed two films: THE FROG PRINCE, starring Helen Hunt and ODDBALL HALL, with Burgess Meredith and Don Ameche. In the mid-90's, she invented a digital recording devise called MEMO-MATE which was a huge infomercial success. Then she was struck with cancer. During breast cancer treatment she suffered hair loss due to chemotherapy. She felt the experience of losing her hair was almost worse than the diagnosis. Other breast cancer patients she met felt the same way. Hunsicker thought there was something profoundly unfair about it. She wanted to do something about it. First thing she decided she wasn't going to wear wigs and scarves. She was going to go perfectly, beautifully bad. She found it emboldened her. She decided she would give back by trying to change the perception of what cancer looks like. It took her six years but she traveled around the country and got famous photographers to take pictures of women suffering hair loss due to chemotherapy and TURNING HEADS was born. It is her way of inspiring others to join her.