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Press for Breaking The Chains

Video-recording of post-screening forum on ‘Creative and visual methodologies in mental health research’ at Wellcome Collection

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On 18 October, Land Body Ecologies hosted the screening of Nkabom: A little medicine, a little prayer in the Forum of Wellcome Collection.

Nkabom is part of Together for Mental Health, an interdisciplinary, international collaboration between Indonesia, Ghana and the UK. Using visual methods, it explores examples of collaboration between mental health workers and pluralistic healing approaches and their impact on preventing human rights abuse and improving care for people living with mental illness experience.

Nkabom was directed and filmed by Erminia Colucci, principal investigator of the collaborative visual research project Together for Mental Health. After the film there was a chance to reflect on the processes of visual and creative methodologies between a panel of speakers thinking about sound and film as data. We had an insightful discussion with Dr Erminia Colucci (Moderator and speaker) and speakers Ben Eaton, Dr Lily Kpobi, Lilian Maina, Dr Ursula Read and Anto (Agus) Sugianto connecting with us both in the UK, as well as from Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan.

Together, we exchanged stories of mental health, the realities of collaboration between mental health nurses and local healers in communities, funding difficulties with mental health research, and more.

A VIDEO-RECORDING OF THE PRE/POST-SCREENING EVENT IS AVAILABLE HERE.

[From LBE Youtube Channel]

Rotary International Club awards a prize as recognition of Erminia Colucci’s work

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On Friday 2nd June 2017 (Italian National Day and Republic Day), Dr Erminia Colucci (founder of Movie-ment) was awarded the 2017 ‘Martinesi nel mondo’ prize by the Rotary International club (Martina Franca section), for her contribution made on a global scale to the issues of mental health, human rights and violence against women and children as a researcher, lecturer, clinician, activist/advocate and film-maker.

The ceremony took place in Martina Franca town Hall and was attended by members of the public, police and government authorities and Rotary members. During the ceremony, Erminia gave an overview of her career trajectory and main achievements and showed a short-cut of her documentary ‘Breaking the chains’.

‘Breaking the chains’ at Indonesia Kontemporer, Global Health Film Initiative (London) and World Health Summit (Berlin)

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The next month is going to be a busy month for Breaking the chains, has it gets screened and presented at the Indonesia Kontemporer in London on the 8th October 2016, the World Health Summit in Berlin on the 11th October and the Global Health Film Initiative in London on the 11-12th November. Spread the word!

Also, we want to see the film and this important and urgent issue to be represented also at human rights festivals, please help us to get Breaking the chains also in these programmes if you can!

Thanks!