A Monthly Mental Health Film Series
Thursday, December 19, 2002 – 7:30pm
USA, 2001. Directors: Bill Lichtenstein, June Peoples
Post-screening discussion with members from the Coast Foundation Society
Co-sponsored by the Coast Foundation Society
An award-winning documentary that follows the lives of four people with serious mental illness over a three year period. The film is set at Fountain House, a rehabilitation program for people with serious mental illness located in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Thursday, November 21, 7:30 pm
USA, 2000. Director: Darren Aronofsky
Post-screening discussion with Mr. Dean Wilson
Co-sponsored by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
The
follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut “PI”, director Darren
Aronofsky’s second feature is a jaw-droppingly cinematic deconstruction
of addiction. Adapted from Hubert Selby’s 1968 novel, this is a
visceral and unflinching dissection of addiction.
Thursday, October 17, 2002 – 7:30pm
Great Britain 1971. Director: Ken Loach
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Derryck Smith
Co-sponsored by f.o.r.c.e. Society For Kids’ Mental Health
A landmark film within the British realist cinematic tradition from Ken Loach (“Riff-Raff ”, “Raining Stones”, “Ladybird, Ladybird,” “Land and Freedom”), the celebrated director best known for the socially conscious humanity that permeates his work. “Family Life” is a politically charged and emotionally affecting drama (written by David Mercer, based on his play, “In Two Minds”) about Janice (Sandy Ratcliffe), an emotionally fragile teenage girl who finds herself at the centre of a raging battle of wills between her strict and unsympathetic parents and the indifferent state medical system charged with treating her.
Thursday September 19, 2002 – 7:30pm
USA 1996. Director: Kenneth Rosenberg
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg
Live theatrical performance by Victoria Maxwell
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Mental Health Association – BC Division
“Back From Madness” follows four psychiatric patients for one to two years, from the time of their first arrival at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital. The film contextualizes their present-day treatments with rare archival footage demonstrating how their conditions were treated in the past