*Tickets for the UNBROKEN Short Prize screening at The Frontline Club are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/
UNBROKEN 2017 is a mixed arts mental health awareness festival. Its main aim is to increase awareness of the issues surrounding mental illness, to reduce any attendant stigma by opening up a conversation, and to confound expectations as to what exactly a production about ‘mental health’ might involve!
UNBROKEN made its debut as a theatre ‘mini-festival’, produced by Shadow Road – a small company with an enduring interest in mental health – at Theatre503 on World Mental Health Day last October. The 2016 festival sold out and the feedback was fantastic so this year it is returning, with some practical workshops, a literary event, and the staged reading of a powerful play about adolescent mental health by award-winning playwright Ali Taylor having been added to the art exhibitions, live music, new writing, original choreography and panel discussions that proved such a hit last year.
Most importantly, we are also launching the UNBROKEN Short Film Prize, so that this year we can encourage the exploration of the vital issue of mental health in yet another art form. We hope that a number of film makers – young and not so young, first timers and old hands, those with experience of the issues and those with an interest – will feel inspired by the subject matter and the freedom they have to explore it.
We received a huge number of high-quality submissions and it is with great pleasure that we announce the official shortlist for the inaugural UNBROKEN 2017 Short Film Prize. We look forward to sharing them with you on Saturday 28th October 2017.
THE UNBROKEN 2017 SHORT FILM PRIZE – THE SHORTLIST:
️ When You are Old – Directed by Koh Chong Wu
️ COLD – Directed by Sven Niemeyer
️ On the Spectrum – Directed by Gerard McKenzie
️ Tommy – Directed by James Sieradzki
️ This Is What Depression Feels Like – Directed by Charlie Mason
️ Three Days Gone – Directed by John Gutierrez
️ The Moment – Directed by Sonali Bhattacharya
️ Flex: No Hard Feelings – Directed by Ollie Gardner
Following the screening (which will include an interval and a Q&A with some of the filmmakers), the audience will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite film. Prizes will then be presented to the recipient of the Audience’s Choice award, along with the Winner and the Runner Up, as chosen by the judges. Finally, there will be time for everyone to chat and network with the film makers, festival organisers and fellow audience members as we adjourn to the nearby Fountains Abbey pub at 5pm!
More information about the whole festival can be found elsewhere on the website: www.unbrokenfest.com
Tickets for the UNBROKEN Short Prize screening at The Frontline Club are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/
These short documentaries masterfully capture artistic works on screen while celebrating the imaginative minds behind them.
From a Scottish shipyard welder turned poet to Japanese interactive artist On Megumi Akiyoshi, these short documentaries will introduce you to convention-breaking creatives, their fascinating work spaces, and their sources of inspiration.
Full lineup to be announced soon.
MINING POEMS OR ODES
Director: Callum Rice
2015 / 11 min / United Kingdom
www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/mining-poems-or-odes/
Robert, an ex-shipyard welder from Govan in Scotland, reflects on how his life experiences have influenced his new found compulsion to write.
YO: LET’S MAKE A BOOK OF THIS
Director: Kristina Budelis and Myles Kane
2013 / 7 min / United States
A few years ago, Yolanda Cuomo, a New York-based artist and graphic designer, learned that she had to vacate her Chelsea studio of twenty-five years. The studio, in an old carriage house in Manhattan, has been the site of artistic collaborations for decades, with artists and photographers from Richard Avedon to Laurie Simmons and Sylvia Plachy, and a team of designers, including Bonnie Briant and Kristi Norgaard.
THE 100 YEARS SHOW
Director: Alison Klayman
2015 / 29 min / United States
www.alisonklayman.com
Carmen Herrera is one of the oldest working artists today. She was a pioneering abstract painter in the ’40s and ’50s, but only recently found the recognition that eluded her for most of her career as she approaches her 100th birthday.
ON BLOOMING ART
Director: Cathryne Czubek
2014 / 6 min / United States
Multi-media artist ON Megumi Akiyoshi transforms the mundane of everyday life. Born in Japan and based in New York City, ON frequently brings her eclectic, and wearable, ON Gallery to the street to interact with the average passerby.
THE REINVENTION OF NORMAL
Director: Liam Saint-Pierre
2015 / 8 min / United Kingdom
http://www.liamsaintpierre.com/
The film follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist / inventor / designer, on his quest for new ideas….Taking the normal and turning it into something unique.
