New FRAME Films: Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month
POSITIVE EXPOSURE is introducing 3 new FRAME films, in celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month, addressing the stigma of mental health challenges and the power of the arts to support healing, inspire new perspectives, and foster dignity and understanding.
(A link to our poster for the screening on April 30th). Screenshot and text below.)
Beyond the Diagnosis: Art as a Voice for Mental Health
Fountain House Studio and Gallery
These films were made in collaboration with Fountain House, which works to transform mental illness recovery through community and advocacy.
Made possible with generous support from Mother Cabrini Health Foundation.
ABOUT FOUNTAIN HOUSE:
Fountain House is a national mental health nonprofit fighting to improve health, increase opportunity, and end social and economic isolation for people living with serious mental illness. Fountain House is transforming mental Illness recovery through community and advocacy, so everyone can live with purpose, belonging, and dignity.
Founded in 1948 in New York City, Fountain House originated the clubhouse model of community mental health that has been replicated more than 300 times in nearly 40 U.S. states and in 30 countries around the world.
To create the community, innovation, and social change needed for people most impacted by mental illness to lead connected and healthy lives, transforming the way the world sees and treats people most impacted by mental illness.
Fountain House believe that every person is capable of great things, deserves just and equitable treatment, and has the right to self-determination and community.
About FRAME Film Series: POSITIVE EXPOSURE produces a film series called FRAME (Faces Redefining the Art of Medical Education). FRAME serves as a web-based educational library featuring short films that offer a broader, more humanized understanding of medical conditions and critical topics.
POSITIVE EXPOSURE celebrates the beauty and richness of human diversity, through photography, film, community story-telling, education, and advocacy.
Beyond the Diagnosis: Art as a Voice for Mental Health
Virtual Screening and Q&A on Wednesday, April 30 at 7PM EST
Please join us for a screening of three Positive Exposure FRAME films addressing the stigma of mental illness and the power of the arts to support healing, inspire new perspectives, and foster dignity and understanding.
These films were made in collaboration with Fountain House NYC, which works to transform mental illness recovery through community and advocacy.
This production was made possible by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable New Yorkers, and Diplodocus Films, our talented documentary filmmakers.