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A film depicting the stereotypes about mental health and speaking with authorities and administration. This film hopes to encourage those struggling with mental health to seek help.
Silent Treatment tells the story of two incarcerated, hearing-impaired individuals overcoming the struggle and stigma of their disability by starting an ASL class aimed at teaching their peers their language—so that they can finally be heard by all.
Director: Ryan Pagan
Exonerated is based on an attempt to change the epidemic where people are wrongfully convicted with fraudulent eyewitness testimony after they have been excluded by DNA evidence at trial.
Director: Earnest “Ben Shuah” Woods
Deprived: Alone, Afraid & Ashamed is a story about an incarcerated person who feels alone and goes on a journey to start a self-help program inside of prison to find healing for himself and others.
Directors: Jason Jenkins, Ryan Pagan
A story about human connection, technology, and the blurred line between healing and dependence. When a man in prison forms a bond with an AI therapy chatbot, their conversations begin to transform him—until his chance at freedom threatens to erase her forever.