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Originally Posted by sunrise
Hi Firestar, that sounds like a cool idea. Would your film be a documentary or fiction? I saw a documentary recently called Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia. It was really good. What I liked was the connection between the filmmaker and the topic. She made the movie but yet was a character in it too. It was about her and her father, who had schizophrenia. It was very touching, and I learned a lot about the mental health system. Here is more info on that film if you are interested:
http://www.unlistedfilm.com
Can you explain more about what you mean by a pro-psychiatry theme? Like, would you want a psychiatrist to be a main character and show him/her as a dedicated healer, etc.? |
Depending on the story or stories I uncover I may go with a documentary or a fiction. If I manage to get this film off the ground, I may consider more films on this theme as I really would like to assist with decreasing the stigma surrounding mental illness.
By pro-psychiatry I guess I mean I'd rather show it in a positive light to be different as so many people seem to only remember films with the scary psychiatrist who is just messing up your mind or the twisted looking hospital. I really, in a broad sense, want to promote reason and science. Let people know they can trust medical science and not hide from it by using alternative medicine. I know some people are for alternative medicines, that's fine. But I am very much against it as I feel they're just ripping off consumers when they're most vulnerable and that sicks me. So I'd have a hard time to write a script that promoted that, personally is all. So some people might think I'm just a big pharma shill. If so, I still haven't got my cheque.
Does that help? Again, not exactly sure on the feel and the topics the film will touch so I can't really explain anything in too much depth yet!