In-Person Screenings

Location of In-Person Screenings
Skiptown Playhouse
665 North Heliotrope Drive
Los Angeles, California 90004

​​SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2022 ​

Block A: Resiliency & Hope
2PM- 4PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)
​​Junkin'
The Soldier
Red Scooter Diaries
A Short Story
Transcendence

Block B: Compassionate & Honest
4PM- 6PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)
Pure Silence
Choker
Stay
Crush
Biohacking Autism: An End to the Anguish?

Block C: Viscerally Stimulating
​6PM- 8PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)
The Spectators
Simply
​​I am Fine, Thanks

​​SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2022

Block D: Spreading Awareness
11AM- 1PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)
Cover Me
The Call We Carry: Confronting PTSD in the Fire Service

Block E: Cinematically Captivating
1PM- 2:30PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)
Black Butterfly
Liminal
Waving
Reflection
Dad's Escape
Widow
Middle Watch

Block F: Psychologically Revealing
​2:30PM- 4:30PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)
Life is a Movie
Become Who You Needed
Petals of a Rose
Reconsolidation
Utter Nonsense

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BLOCK A
Resiliency & Hope- Films that inspire

Saturday, June 3, 2023
2PM- 4PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)

Transcendence 
30:00
English/United States
Directed by Michelle Smith
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The true story of Adrien Costa who suffered a devastating accident that began his journey into recovery as an adaptive mountain climber with PNW legend Mark Allen.

BLOCK B
​Compassionate & Honest- Films that tell a story

Saturday, June 3, 2023
4PM- 6PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)

BLOCK D
Spreading Awareness- Films that inform

Sunday, June 4, 2023
11AM- 1PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)

BLOCK C
​​Viscerally Stimulating- Films that immerse

Saturday, June 3, 2023
11AM- 8PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)

BLOCK E
Cinematically Captivating- Films that fascinate

Sunday, June 4, 2023
1PM- 2:30PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)

Dad's Escape
8:21
French/Canada
Directed by Helene Matte
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A woman recounts her relationship with her father and her vicarious experience of his symptoms of psychosis.

Widow
9:00
English/United States
Directed by Elias Hinojosa
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A grieving shut-in finds herself stuck between life and death.

Middle Watch
12:12
English/United Kingdom
Directed by John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden
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A sailor must come to terms with the trauma of war and the mysteries of the deep, as he endures another shift on the Middle Watch.

Screenplays

Screenplays that includes psychological themes, characters and/or storylines.

The Monster in Mummy
93 pages
English/United Kingdom
Written by Steve Sloan, Donia Youssef
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Monster in Mummy follows Donia’s courageous story as she deals with her world crumbling around her whilst she remains steadfast in being the ‘strong woman.’

The Life of Cockroaches
127 pages
English/Canada
Written by Gillian Croft
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During the emergence of the Black Women's movement in South Africa, self-absorbed Auschwitz survivor Hélène Levine finds hope to overcome the trauma of her past when she saves the life of Siphiwe, a Xhosa woman accused of stealing. 

Last Stop
112 pages
English/United States
Written by Tommy McInnis
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Tommy McInnis, formerly homeless, works for New York City's mental health looking for and helping homeless who live in the subway tunnels under NYC.

Cover Me
40:00
English/United States
Directed by Dale Fabrigar
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A gripping documentary that tells the story of how a healing sanctuary is helping to prevent suicide and changing the paradigm of how we care for veterans.

The Call We Carry: Confronting PTSD in Fire Service
​1:07:43
English/United States
Directed by Cody Shea
​______________
Four Tacoma Firefighters share an intimate glimpse into their lives as they tell stories of pain, sacrifice, and resiliency in the midst of an unprecedented call volume increase.

BLOCK F
Psychologically Revealing- Films that intrigue

Sunday, June 4, 2023
2:30PM- 4:30PM (w/ 15MIN Q&A)

LIFE IS A MOVIE
9:48
English/United States
Directed by Lee Reid
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They say, "Life is a movie." For those with depersonalization-derealization disorder, that is all too true.

BECOME WHO YOU NEEDED
20:20
English, Portuguese/Portugal
Directed by Maria Norton
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Alice is a teenage girl who is anxious and constantly triggered. However, with the help of her understanding therapist, she overcomes her anxiety in the times of the Coronavirus pandemic.

PETALS OF A ROSE
15:00
English/United States
Directed by Dylan Crumpler
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A woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder struggles to prevent her parts from getting triggered on Valentine's Day.

RECONSOLIDATION
13:44
English/United States
Directed by Elanor Nadorff
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After an intense car accident, a young woman learns a type of visualization therapy called Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memory. The treatment helps her overcome her fears and drive again.

UTTER NONSENCE
42:00
English/United States
Directed by Geri-Lynn Utter
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Dr. Geri Lynn Utter, author of the acclaimed book Mainlining Philly, details her astonishingly dysfunctional childhood growing up as the child of drug addicted parents.

ONLINE

Stay With Me
1:20:00
English/United States
Directed by Marty Lang
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A woman with an undiagnosed mental disorder struggles to survive with her illness, while her best friend and boyfriend learn to be her advocates.

The Monster Inside Me
1:47:52
English/United States
Directed by Tony C. Silva
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A couple battling Lyme disease points the camera at themselves while researching for healing and answers throughout the US.

Stuck
20:00
English/United Kingdom
Directed by Isabella Bronze
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5 people must each escape their own sinister challenge room. A version of their own personal hell that has been constructed by their own obsessions. Imagine BBC Sherlock’s ‘mind palace’ meets Saw and Panic Room. An intense thriller accumulates in a tender but raw account of how OCD can be a personal prison.

Suicide Square
10 pages
English/United States
Written by Hamza Abdullah
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An Angel of Death becomes an Angel of Life.

Dissension
113 pages
English/United States
Written by Stacey Alan Spivey
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A nurse practitioner works to create a revolutionary new treatment for mental illness and addiction; a discovery that will have a monumental impact on the field of psychiatry around the world. But he must race against the clock as he struggles with his own mental challenges.

The Break Free Club
40 pages
English/France
Written by Coline Pagoda, Jane Pagoda
​_______________
The series follows four teenagers, who happen to meet on the roof of their school, the night of the Homecoming Prom, each with the intent of committing suicide.

The Spectators
6:05
English/United States
Directed by Nikita Liu
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For her birthday, a 1920s enthusiast receives an immersive silent film experience.

Simply
8:07
Arabic/Jordan
Directed by Zeid Adnan AbuOdeh
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A man is trying to commit suicide but keeps getting interrupted. Then he changes his mind but life intervenes.

I Am Fine, Thanks
1:30:00
Lithuanian/Lithuania
Directed by Ernestas Jankauskas
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Successful scientist hides her breakdowns that manifest as hallucinations in order to maintain her socially perfect image.