Friday November 11, 6:45pm @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 350 King St West Reitman Square, Toronto, Ontario @ Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival Lauren Parsekian, USA, 2010, 76 min, Beta sp, Canadian Premiere, English, Student Choice Award: Toronto International Film Festival, Sprockets, Rated PG Finding Kind explores real life Mean Girls,…
Monday November 7, 7:00 pm @ Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St, Toronto, ON @ Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com Filmmakers: Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Netherlands, Finland, 2011, 65 min, Digibeta, Dutch with English subtitles, Rated 14A People In White offers up a different point of view than most mental…
Sunday, November 6, 7:00pm @ TIFF Bell Lightbox 350 King St West Reitman Square, Toronto, Ontario. Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com Filmmaker in attendance. Alethea Root, USA, 2011, 78 min, Canadian Premiere, English, Rated 14A. Part Time Fabulous tells the story of Mel, a woman who recently fell in…
MENTAL ILLNESS AND ADDICTION are fundamental parts of our human experience and they have always been difficult to present and discuss in the public arena. Fear and stigma routinely make accurate representations and presentations next to impossible. The vehicle through which mental illness and addiction are most often presented publicly…
It’s been two years since Mackenzie Phillips came out on Oprah and in her book High On Arrival with the story of sexual abuse from her father. The admission made a huge impact on other survivors out there as finally someone has spoken out about one of the last taboos. …
I stumbled across this film one night searching the Movie Network and found it strange I’d never heard of it. A film with Ashley Judd about a woman who suffers from suicidal depression? I’m in. Not far into the film I saw that this was no fluff piece tv movie,…