MadPix Films co-founders Lisa Klein and Doug Blush have partnered with the Port Townsend Film Festival to offer The Art of Documentary Film Creation. The online documentary filmmaking seminar will be taught by Lisa and Doug who are PTFF’s 2021 Filmmakers-in-Residence (remotely, this year!). The goal of the nine-week class is to give students a [...]
Thank you to Kelechi Ubozoh, who is featured in The S Word, for allowing us to share her blog post entitled Behind The Documentary. Kelechi posted this piece on the release of The S Word on Prime Video. Kelechi is a Mental Health Consultant, Writer and Public Speaker. For more information, visit her website. Here's [...]
Lisa recently did an interview with Rachel Steinman who hosts the Dear Family podcast. Rachel is a teacher, writer and mental health advocate. As described by Rachel, "Dear Family, is a love letter about our complicated families and achieving mental wellness." Listen to the full interview for Lisa’s personal experience with multi-generation suicide in her [...]
Take your best day and your darkest moment…and multiply it by a million. OF TWO MINDS is an award-winning feature documentary that explores the extraordinary lives, struggles and successes of a few of the over five million Americans living with bipolar disorder. Personal stories of harrowing events, medical mazes, discrimination and the efforts of social [...]
Kelechi Ubozoh, featured in THE S WORD, and LD Green will be sharing readings from their recently published book, We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health. They feel their experience with their own mental health has given them each heightened capacity to navigate a shifting world with resilience and grace. Join us for [...]
Director Lisa Klein and Craig Miller, who is featured in THE S WORD, brought the film to Lithuania last year through the American Film Showcase, a film diplomacy program organized by the U.S. Department of State and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. While in Lithuania, Craig sat down for an interview [...]
MECCA (Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies), in collaboration with the Be Well OC Suicide Prevention initiative, hosted a screening of THE S WORD on Saturday, January 17 in Orange County, CA. MECCA, a collective impact coalition working to eliminate ethnic and racial disparities and improve the quality of life for underserved multi-ethnic communities, sought to [...]
On Saturday, January 18, a community showing of THE S WORD was held at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. The screening was part of the American Film Showcase, a film diplomacy program organized by the U.S. Department of State and the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. AFS brings award-winning, contemporary films [...]
Our very own Dese'Rae Stage and her Live Through This project were recently featured in People Magazine. The full-length piece includes background information on Des and the organization, as well as some of her portraits of attempt survivors, accompanied by their stories. Hopefully readers will walk away with a better understanding of suicide after hearing [...]
In this conversation, Craig Miller, Kelechi Ubozoh, Wilma Townsend and Keris Myrick discuss longstanding misconceptions regarding mental illness.
