Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion: Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness

Join us for a special advanced screening of Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness followed by a live panel discussion with filmmakers and individuals featured in the film.

Documentary summary:

The issues surrounding mental illness are extraordinarily complex. The risk factors are daunting, the economics bewildering, and the politics contentious. But the most important step — and often the most difficult one — is to start talking about it. Hiding in Plain Sight will bring that conversation into homes, schools, the workplace, and community organizations across the country. The two-part, four-hour film, executive produced by Ken Burns and directed by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, follows the journeys of more than 20 young Americans from all over the country and all walks of life, who have struggled with thoughts and feelings that have troubled — and, at times — overwhelmed them. They share what they have learned about themselves, their families, and the world in which they live. Through first-person accounts, the film presents an unstinting look at both the seemingly insurmountable obstacles faced by those who live with mental disorders and the hope that many have found after that storm. In the process, they, along with experts, family and peers, will directly confront the issues of stigma, discrimination, awareness, and silence’ and, in doing so, support the ongoing shift in the public perception of mental illness today.