Amanda Wang
Amanda Wang is a graphic designer and amateur boxer living with borderline personality disorder. Her short film RethinkBPD follows her challenges and triumphs both inside the ring and out.
John Turturro
Actor, director, screenwriter — and lifelong New Yorker — John Turturro is a good friend of the NYC Mental Health Film Festival, with a strong personal connection to its mission.
Lowell Handler
Lowell Handler first shot to national prominence as the star and narrator of the Emmy-nominated PBS television documentary Twitch & Shout. We screened his short film Crazy and Proud.
Lucy Winer
Lucy Winer, creator of Kings Park: Stories of an American Mental Institution, was committed to King's Park State Hospital as a teenager in the 1960s. Through her documentary, she confronts the intense emotions she has carried ever since.
PJ Moynihan
PJ Moynihan makes films that make a difference. His documentary Healing Voices — a big hit at the 2017 festival — challenges misconceptions about "mental illness" and "psychosis" and offers a hopeful vision of recovery.