Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, And Jennifer Aniston Band Together Against Breast Cancer

What a wonderful and beautiful alliance!

Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, and Jennifer Aniston have all banded together against breast cancer in a unique way: by each of them directing a short film based around the subject.

Each lady directed a short film for a series entitled Five for Lifetime. The series includes a number of unique stories about women whose lives have been impacted by breast cancer in one way or another. And considering October is breast cancer awareness month, this couldn’t have come at a better time!

Here’s a little about Jennifer’s contribution:

We want people to walk away with hope and information but feel incredibly entertained. Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. These films touch on that reality. The film I directed is called Mia, and it’s about a woman who takes her diagnosis as a death sentence and gives up—only to discover she’s gone into remission. We want people to know it is very possible to conquer breast cancer.

And Demi’s:

I’ve known people affected by breast cancer, and since I finished the project, someone in our family has also been diagnosed. But I think that so often there is that “out of sight, out of mind” feeling, like breast cancer is happening to other people, not you. Before this project came up, even I really didn’t want to pay attention. I feel that this came to me to make me pay attention. What I’ve learned from all the work Ashton and I do is that we so often don’t address any cause with enough urgency.

And Alicia!

Kristin [Hahn] and Jen called me up; after I read the scripts, I felt like this was something important, and I wanted to be a part of it. I chose Lili because she’s close to my age and I understood the family dynamic. I had an immediate idea of what I could bring to it.

This is such an amazing thing to do, ladies!

We’re excited to see the finished product, and we hope that this continues to further the cause. Like you guys said, everyone is affected by cancer some how in their lives at some point, so it’s so important to have that hope and feeling!

[Image via Glamour.]