NYAPRS Note: The following comes from Community Access’ extraordinary Carla Rabinowitz about the upcoming annual joint Community Access and NYAPRS Annual NYC Mental Health Film Festival.
We invite you to the 8th Annual NYC Mental Health Film Festival and ask you to publicize this Mental Health event.
The Film Festival will take place on Saturday May 5, 2012 from 11:30 am til 5:00 pm.
The location is St. Francis College, 182 Remsen Street, Brooklyn. Right near the 2, 3 or 4,5 to Borough Hall in Brooklyn. Also near the A, F to Jay Street. And the R to Court Street.
The NYC mental health film festival is an annual event which offers light breakfast, lunch, three films and discussion for $5 in advance. $10 at the door. Come for the discussion about the films, as much as to watch the films themselves. The discussion is a great opportunity to see how those with psychiatric disabilities like or dislike how we are being portrayed in films.
This year the film festival will show films on Crisis Intervention Teams in the hopes of convincing the city to start up such a program to help train NYC police officers.
Films to be shown include:
- “Burning Blossom” is a short film about one woman’s struggle from thoughts of suicide to art as a means of recovery.
- “Introduction to the Georgia Crisis Intervention Team” is a training video on how police should respond to mental health recipients.
- “The Interventionists” follows the days and nights of a crisis intervention team in downtown Toronto.
- “Mental illness is not a crime” is the story of a NYC campaign to change police behavior after the death of Iman Morales in Brooklyn. Film captures the work of RIghts of Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities, RIPPD.
- “Voices of Hope and Recovery” follows 5 mental health recipients through their crisis and journeys to recovery. Directed by award winning film maker and director Robert Griffith.
And if you are a mental health recipient this is a day you do not want to miss. Be surrounded by 200 mental health recipients, network, and watch a few films that aim to portray mental health recipients in a good light. TO purchase a ticket in advance call Carla at 212-780-1400 x7726.