Relatives of dementia victims call themselves members of “the club no one wants to join.” The Caregivers’ Club steps inside the private lives of three families as they navigate through heartbreak with humour and frustration. It’s an inspiring journey of love, loss and letting go that thousands of families will be forced to take as their family members age.

Cynthia Banks is a director, producer and writer with more than 25 years of experience in television documentary production. She has written and directed many memorable, international award-winning documentaries. Apocalypse 2012 won a Platinum Remi Award for television directing at the 44th Houston International Film Festival. A National Film Board production, 10-7 for Life chronicled the last two harrowing weeks on the job for a burnt-out cop who is Banks’ sister. She was nominated for a Gemini for her direction on “A Hail of Bullets,” the CBC’s Fifth Estate report on James Roszko’s killing of four RCMP officers.