This May, we honor Mental Health Awareness Month with a POV collection centered on healing, resilience, and the power of creative expression.
In partnership with @film.in.mind , The D-Word, and @documentalityproject , this collection reflects the 2026 theme “In Every Story, There’s Strength,” highlighting stories of compassion, reflection, and the many ways we cope with life’s challenges.
From intimate portraits of mother-daughter relationships to meditations on grief, absence, and connection, these films reveal pathways toward understanding, healing, and reconciliation. Across the collection, art emerges as a powerful lifeline offering expression, identity, and hope in the face of adversity.
Stream the collection now on POV! @amdocdocumentary
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #POVonPBS #AmericanDocumentary #Documentary #MentalHealth
Here is wonderful @malikkahdc / @malikkahrollins , Film in Mind Film Ethics & Care Consultant, Psychotherapist, Education Director at Doc NYC & Co-Founder of @documentalityproject inviting you along to our new series of free Monthly Gatherings for anyone involved in the life cycle of a film.
Malikkah is hosting the next session:
💃Thursday 26 February
🌷9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET
⏳ 45 mins online.
✨Sessions are free but please Pay What You Can for our practitioners’ time and to contribute to our being able to subsidise fellow filmmakers globally.
Whether you want to drop-in or sign up for all, each session is open to anyone seeking #connection and #care in #community with filmmakers who understand the love and labour that goes into commissions and craft.
Find out more and sign up through Film in Mind’s website:
💡Follow the links in bio to find out more and to reserve your spot in this 4 session weekly #Filmmaking and #Narrative #Therapy #Consultation #Group for filmmakers across form and genre throughout September 2025.
This consultation group will explore #creative approach, creative #risk; working with #participants, #community and #friends; #crew dynamics; and #non-extractive and #decolonial ways of creating. This can sit alongside your project, informing decisions from #development through to #distribution.
🪴Narrative therapy encourages #collaborative inquiry to understand people’s lives via the alternative, neglected stories that have been overshadowed by one particular dominant story.
@p.o.h.l.i.n and @gabrielle_v_brady have blended - over the past decade - narrative therapy practices with filmmaking practices of all types, putting their collaboration into action for the films ‘Island of the Hungry Ghosts’ (2018) and ‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’ (2024). They offer a unique approach from their respective fields.
⚖️We will be operating a Waiting List and if any of these dates don’t work, still be in touch and we can add you to future groups
🌐1 place in each group is reserved for filmmakers at risk. Please get in touch for further details.
🌀If these amounts are inaccessible for you please reach out and we will see what is possible
🔸Fees can be split in two separate payments
@rebeccamday will be hosting at this year’s @sheffdocfest to discuss:
🌟What prevents #filmmakers from placing #protection for participants, audiences and film teams at the heart of our #documentarypractice?🌟
🗓️Event link in bio to sign up
Too often, #documentary filmmakers are #stretched for time and funding and must navigate complex #ethicaldilemmas in their filmmaking with little or no #support.
This panel examines practical approaches to these challenges by exploring learnings from the experiences of filmmakers participating in our #FilmSupervision #Pilot, the recent #CostofDocs Survey from @whickerawards , and @okresocial ’s experience of supporting #collaboration with #academic #experts to benefit contributors and filmmakers. It offers a comprehensive 360° look at the industry’s approach to harm prevention and protection in production.
Speakers:
Jane Ray @whicker_girl (Artistic Director, The Whickers)
Jenna Al-Ansari @jennaalansari (Lived Experience Lead, OKRE)
Shahrokh Bikaran @shahrokh_bn (Independent Filmmaker)
Moderator: Rebecca Day (Film Supervisor, Founder & Psychotherapist, Film in Mind)
Tomorrow’s GIPA Webinar: *Modeling Care, Safety and Wellbeing in your impact campaign* takes place Thursday May 29 at 2pm UTC / 10am EST / 7:30pm IST.
Couldn’t have a better line up:
✨@stephaniejanep from @peaceisloud
✨@triparnab #ImpactProducer of the film ‘From the Shadows’
✨Kitty Hu from @browngirlsdocmafia (BGDM)
Stories of real people are crucial, but need approaching with utmost care. We are partnered with GIPA who are hosting a timely conversation about protagonist safety in dangerous times. They will discuss how to integrate consent as circumstances shift, and how to find mental health support for protagonists and the team throughout the filmmaking process.
We are so proud to be alongside partners @docaccountability (DAWG), @documentalityproject and @peaceisloud for their efforts supporting mental health, participant safety, ethical storytelling and wellbeing throughout the filmmaking and impact campaign process.
⭐️Link to Register in bio.
🌟Link in bio also for Participant Care Resources by Peace is Loud
Documentary storytellers and impact practitioners have a responsibility to all those who have entrusted them with their stories.
Join the upcoming GIPA Public Webinar: Modeling Care, Safety and Wellbeing in your impact campaign on Thursday May 29 at 2:00 pm UTC/ 10 am EST/ 7:30pm IST along with Stephanie Palumbo from Peace is Loud, Triparna Banerjee Impact Producer of the film “From the Shadows” in conversation with Kitty Hu from BGDM.
Register for the event by clicking the link in our bio.
📣 READY TO LEVEL UP YOUR IMPACT GAME? 😀
Join us for the next GIPA Webinar:
Modeling Care, Safety and Wellbeing in Your Impact Campaign
This session dives into how we prioritise mental health, participant safety, and ethical storytelling at every stage of the impact journey.
We’re bringing together powerful voices in the impact space:
✨ Stephanie Palumbo from Peace is Loud
✨ Triparna Banerjee, Impact Producer of From the Shadows
✨ Kitty Hu of Brown Girls Doc Mafia
Big shout out to our partners championing this work:
Film In Mind, DAWG, Documentality, and Peace is Loud
Let’s make impact campaigns that actually care!!
🔗 Register now – link in bio. ✨
The Filmmaker Support Directory from @documentalityproject is a valuable tool for storytellers seeking care. It offers a list of licensed and non-licensed mental health and wellness practitioners who support filmmakers and film teams navigating the emotional labor of storytelling.
As we work to center collective care in all stages of filmmaking, resources like this help support conditions for sustainability, healing, and impact.
A very exciting first for us next week as we have been invited to @bessel_van and @traumaresearchfoundation ‘s 36th Annual Boston International Trauma Conference. The Godfrey Foundation for Cinema Therapy approached us to join their panels on how documentary film about trauma histories can heal and liberate the survivor.
@hkorner will be sharing our approach to support those making personal films with #therapy and #filmsupervision which has contributed to profound healing. She will be bringing her training as an #arttherapist to also explain the #power of #film as an art form to #express and #process pain.
@malikkahrollins will also be present and bringing her experience as a #filmsupervisor and #mentalhealth #practitioner #psychotherapist with Film in Mind and @documentalityproject .
Please come and say hello! We’re looking forward to being in the mix of this community and hearing the latest developments in this much needed and life changing research and work.
@shaleecehaas is offering #SomaticCoaching for a Group of #Documentary #Filmmakers starting Thursday 15 May 2025 and running weekly until Thursday 3 July 2025. The course will provide 8 sessions of 90 min duration on Zoom.
🗓️Thursdays, Weekly, 10:30am – 12pm PST / 6:30 – 8pm GMT
✏️Fee: USD $350/series
💛Somatics (engagement of the body) can support you through challenges in your filmmaking to stay in tune with your vision and values in an embodied sense. Sessions will introduce you to practices that access your creativity, clarify your goals, identify and communicate boundaries, ask for and receive support, collaborate with other filmmakers, and deepen trusting relationships 🫂
Link in bio to find out more and sign up*
*Sign ups are on first-come-first-serve basis but there will be a waiting list
Please meet Rebecca Day, a UK-based psychotherapist who has specialised in the challenges for documentary filmmakers.
Rebecca is joining the group of international experts speaking at the seminar in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
Film In Mind is a therapy and consultation service for international filmmakers. Founded in 2018 by Rebecca Day, a psychotherapist and former documentary producer, the organisation works to address mental health challenges faced by filmmakers across the sector. Rebecca has combined her therapeutic skills with over a decade of documentary production experience to create therapeutic support tailored to the unique needs of freelance filmmakers, production companies and film organisations. She is also a co-founder alongside The D-Word and Malikkah Rollins, of DocuMentality, an international research project. Film In Mind is a growing collective of therapeutic practitioners, all with a film background. They have spoken about mental health, mentored filmmakers and advocated for change within the industry at events and workshops.
Rebecca will be with us online, and share her unique insights as one of the frontrunners in bridging the gap between the film industry and mental health support.
Enjoy the Journey
> Tuesday April 29, 14.00-18.00
> National Film School of Denmark
> Tickets in Linktree
@filmskolendk@detdanskefilminstitut@sane.cinema@film.in.mind@documentalityproject
