The first international short film competition and film festival dedicated to erase the stigma surrounding mental health issues

Filmmakers from different cinematic traditions have portrayed and interpreted insanity in many different ways, sometimes helping to further our understanding of mental distress, and at other times reinforcing our prejudices and sacrificing integrity for the sake of offering entertainment.

Frame of Mind is a rare opportunity to view the most sensitive films made in the world that have attempted to erase the stigma surrounding mental health issues. It will showcase the best feature and short films from all over the world in a non-competitive section.

In the competitive section we seek to counter negative, inaccurate and cliched images of people with mental illness. We encourage you to create clean, accurate, realistic and optimistic short films portraying those living with mental illness.

• Here is your chance at making a short film that best reflects the struggle to erase the STIGMA surrounding issues related to mental illness (and not mental retardation).
• Alternatively the films can also portray the HOPE for those with mental illness and/or their caregivers.

The film festival is a part of the International Conference on Schizophrenia (IConS) scheduled from October 13-15, 2006 in Chennai (Madras) India. It is organised by Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), India’s premier non government organisation, committed to the cause of schizophrenia. SCARF is collaborating with the World Psychiatric Association on the global anti-stigma campaign and is also a collaborating centre for the World Health Organisation.

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