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| Award winner Red Dust |
This year's Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival award winners were announced today, with prizes due to be given out in a ceremony at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh tonight. Among the winners was Joan Molloy's Unravelling Eve, which looks at postpartum psychosis and was described by the awards committee as "a positive, beautiful film about what is a long, dark, frightening experience for those affected." Molloy told Eye For Film "One thing I’m certainly not is a documentary film maker. I didn’t want to make a standard documentary."
The awards committee was made up of film and mental health experts working together. "We were impressed by the diversity of entries to this year’s film awards, and the honesty on display in the submissions was both moving and inspiring. It was an honour to watch so many brave pieces of filmmaking during the selection process," said the festival's curator, film producer Richard Warden.
Other winners included Tell Tale Signs, which talks to survivors of childhood sexual abuse who have gone on to become parents themselves, and Red Dust, which looks at the effects of pollution from the Ravenscraig Steelworks.
"By creating such a fantastic, meaningful programme every year SMHAFF generates a political happening from intimate artistic responses, reflecting and describing real emotional existence. This is art and film at their most powerful," said Claire Lamond, who will be taking home the Animation award for her stop motion film Sea Front.
Those awards in full:-
Long Documentary
Here One Day
Highly Commended
Les Enfants De Sisyphe
Mid-Length Documentary
Today Is Monday
Highly Commended
Short Documentary
Piros Fehér Zöld
Highly Commended
Arts and Mental Health
Images Of Bedlam (joint winner)
Out Door (joint winner)
Drama
The Hard Dream
Highly Commended
Lizard Girl
Animation
Sea Front
Highly Commended
