Our entry is centered around what a person with poor mental health may experience, how what they experience may be confusing to the people around them, and how those people should still support that person regardless. We used a more abstract and ambiguous style of filmmaking so that our film and message can resonate with a variety of circumstances.
Our story is about how anxiety piles up on you and why you should speak up about your situation and remove the weight off your shoulders and mind. It is important to get the weight off because it can show how much of a different person you are.
For our submission, we chose the Mental Health section of the contest and focused on depression and other similar mental illnesses. Our film focuses on how one may feel when they are depressed and the typical signs. Feeling like you’re drowning or that improvement is just out of reach. We focused on the signs like mood swings, loss of self, and social isolation. Depression is a hard mental battle that is hard to understand from an outside perspective, so we wanted to share how others may feel to raise awareness of the struggles of depression and what you can do to help yourself or someone else.
This entry is a way to help represent how mental health can be coped with, or expressed through not just photography, but any creative outlet. It is important for teens & all people to understand that there isn’t any shame in facing challenges or struggling with mental health, & that there are ways to cope with these feelings. Photography helps act as a powerful tool, that helps people reflect their struggles, challenges, express their emotions, & most importantly, create memories that remind them of the happy times in their life that they may not be able to recognize when struggling with their mental health.
This submission is about being left out in a lot of things that other people would love to be apart of.
The Secret in Monet’s Garden unveils Claude Monet’s epic 31-year journey in painting and enveloping himself in the petals of his beloved garden’s water lilies to grapple with his grief over his beloved wife’s death. In this film, I reveal Monet’s simple science-backed solution of inviting more green spaces into our lives to ameliorate our mental health.
My submission “Headwrangler” takes a unique approach to addressing mental health. While most videos have a rather sad or serious theme/tone, my video offers a bold effort on addressing mental health, and the actions to take to help improve. I think this way is more effective and captivating for the audience, or someone struggling with the very problems spoken of in the video, to take action and to be confident in doing so.
My submission is about multiple different kids struggling with mental health and being able to communicate cate with others about it
Our film walks through the lens of a young teenage girl battling social anxiety as she faces the pressure of fitting in. We signify the importance of reaching out and letting the light in
to embrace life with emotional support, rejecting a cycle of isolation.
My submission is categorized in the mental health category, as it focuses on Chris as a teenager. Chris is looking back to an old box of childhood memories, when he stumbles across a drawing of himself as a superhero that he made back when he was a kid. He then reflects off of those memories, remembering when he would go off to the park and play pretend superhero. Going back to Chris in the present day, he feels as if he needs to keep playing “pretend” as he believes that being a superhero means you have to be there for others over yourself and that you always need to act like everything is okay, when in reality it’s not. But once Chris begins to open up about his mental health, he learns that it’s okay to stop playing pretend, and the more you open up to others about it, the more you grow from it. Leaving the viewers with a hopeful message of being sure to always open up about your mental health, as your health matters just as much as everyone else and that you shouldn’t ignore it.