It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Join us for May’s Indie Film Stories at McMenamin’s Kennedy School. Buy tickets now.
We are proud to feature independent filmmakers with our Indie Film Night, presented by Portland Film Festival. Each month we’ll feature a different series of independent films, with a Q&A to follow.
About Mental Health Stories (Mental Health Awareness Month): The Portland Film Festival’s Indie Film Series is presenting two films highlighting the importance of mental health awareness: Could You Pick Me Up, Please?, a short film about addiction, recovery and pain, and feature film This Is Not a War Story, a story of trauma and life after combat. Stick around after the screening for a Q&A.
About the films:
Could You Pick Me Up, Please? • Director: Octavian Kelly
Newly discharged from rehab, Will calls a string of friends and family to pick him up. While he may be ready to move on, those he hurt can’t easily forget the past.
This Is Not a War Story • Director: Talia Lugacy
This Is Not a War Story tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them together, despite the spectre of their friend’s suicide and the ever-crystalizing fact that healing from war is sometimes an impossible mission.
