This document provides information about a "Movies for Mental Health" event at Glendale Community College on October 17, 2019. It introduces the facilitator and describes the event schedule which includes watching short films about mental health topics and discussions in small groups. The event aims to help reduce stigma around mental health issues and spark conversations by using film. Sample short films are shown that address themes of depression and domestic violence. Participants discuss their reactions and how filmmaking techniques helped convey the stories. Reasons why people may not seek help for mental health issues are debated. The document promotes staying connected to similar future events and resources.

1. Movies for
Mental Health
Glendale Community College
October 17, 2019
@artwithimpact
#Movies4MentalHealth

2. About Your Facilitator
Natalie Patterson, she/her
Natalieispoetry.com
IG: @natalieispoetry
Poet
Teaching artist
Humanist

3. Brought to you by…
• Campus workshops
• Monthly short film competition
• Short film production grants
• Global community
• Mental Health Services Act (2004)
• 1% tax on people earning >$1m/year
• 20% to prevention and early intervention
#Movies4MentalHealth
Our Bodies, Our Minds
Thursday, October 24, 2019
12:00 - 2:00pm
Student Center

4. Here’s the Plan
• Quick Introduction
• Setting the scene together
• Mental Health
• Stigma
• Watch and discuss films
• Panel of students and resources
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5. Where were you right before
coming to the workshop?
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6. Heads Up
• Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert on
your own experience
• Public space – no confidentiality
• It’s okay to feel!
• Films and conversations might be triggering
• Please take care of yourself however you need,
including asking for help
• If you don’t want your photo taken, please let us know
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7. Mental Health
#Movies4MentalHealth

8. Mental Health
• Mental illness
• Mental wellness
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9. MH Across Languages and
Cultures
If English is not your first language, does your
language have words for mental health, mental
illness and mental wellness?
Do these concepts exist in your home culture?

10. Some movies and tv shows that
show mental illness…
• The good doctor
• Atypical
• Speechless
• Stumptown
• Joker
• The Dark Knight
• Killing Eve
• Julia (character)
• Special
• deadpool
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11. Characters with mental illness
are portrayed as…
• hero
• broken
• something is wrong with them
• unfixable
• violent
• resigned
• emotionless
• unrelatable
• helpless
• needy
#Movies4MentalHealth

12. Stigma vs.
Stereotype
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13. Stigma
•A judgment or stereotype that is:
• Always negative
• Always untrue
• Can be internalized
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14. How does stigma feel?
• alone
• sadness
• frustrated
• discriminated against
• angry
• shameful
• worthless
• depressing
• embarrassing
• intimidated
• misunderstood
•
#Movies4MentalHealth

15. Gladys
By Jessica Jones and Diana DiBattista
AWI Winner, November 2013
Content heads up: depression
#Movies4MentalHealth

16. Discuss in groups of three…
• What did you think?
• What did you feel?
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17. What did you think? What did you feel?
Thoughts
• allowing people to talk about
their experiences
• relatable but the positive
ending is not that easy
• doubt was represented in
the first part of the film / lens
focus used to show what
can happen
• connecting to her childhood
even as an adult
• taking the time to get help
can be hard
• teens not getting support
• solution in communication
• Culture sometimes keeps
people in a cage
Feelings
• desperate
• limited feeling
• compassionate

18. How did the filmmaking
techniques help tell the story?
• focus/out of focus
• different shots of daily life
• use of natural light or dark
• tight shot - focus on the human (narrative)
• the walk to the clinic (the journey to help)
#Movies4MentalHealth

19. The Chair
By Kat Roman and Sean Sonnenburg
AWI Winner, August 2017
Content heads up: domestic violence
#Movies4MentalHealth

20. Discuss in groups of three…
• What did you think?
• What did you feel?
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21. What did you think? What did you feel?
Thoughts
• the chair being used was
cool as a representation of
the violence
• she has tool and ways of
protecting herself now
(gloves, shoes)
• he’s controlling. The
breaking of the chair is her
getting freedom from that
control.
Feelings
Rage
Desperate
Trapped
Worry about what’s next

22. Why don’t people get help?
• stigma
• don’t know anything is wrong
• fear of “trouble”
• availability
• access
• the cycle
• worthiness
• cost
• denial
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23. Purpose
By Victor Okoye
AWI Winner, December 2016
Content heads up: depression
#Movies4MentalHealth

24. Responses and Reactions?
#Movies4MentalHealth
● liked his change of perspective
● he noticed the small things
● found his purpose

25. What can we do?
• talk about MH more
• use correct language - don’t use “crazy”
• disrupt
• ***humanizing***
• not being quick to name people’s experience, allowing them to tell their
story
• more events like this
• more lived experiences sharing
• slow down and have conversations
• watch more MH films
• putting yourself out there
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26. Panel
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27. Jennifer Parkford
MFT Intern, GCC Health Center
Jason Romero
Director of Development and Outreach, NAMI Glendale
Meet the Panel
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28. Stay in touch!
Don’t forget to leave your name
and email on the sign-up sheet!
@artwithimpact
info@artwithimpact.org
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29. Our Bodies, Our Minds…
next Thursday!