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My Suicide - film by local filmmakers wins 'Best Picture' at the Berlin , GenArt, Seattle International, and Giffone Film Festivals worldwide.
At a time when in most cultures, teens are acclimating to adulthood, in CorporateAmerica they are killing themselves. According to the organization, Regenerate By Youth - For Youth, "suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people ages 5-19 years old. In the past 25 years, while the general incidence of suicide has decreased, the rate of those between 15 and 24 has tripled."
In response to the high rate of teen deaths by car accidents and suicide, director David Lee Miller, his teenage son Jordan Miller, screenwriter Eric J. Adams, and star Gabriel Sunday, set out to create an authentic and original film that speaks candidly - sugar-coating nothing - about the reality of contemporary teenage life and the effects of suicide in every town in America.
The story graphically depicts the gap of going from childhood into the nightmare and pressure of adulthood in our disconnected culture. In the premiere last night at the local Mystic Theater in Petaluma, actor Gabriel Sunday commented on this gap. In his travels with the film in recent months, he said many teens and people in other cultures came up to him to ask him if this was really going on. They were shocked to hear about this revelation about US teens.
This movie is a must see as it depicts the realities of the life, death, violence, oversexed, drug and intense media overload intentionally thrust upon our youth. The reason for all the awards? Even in this accurate revelation of the shallow and shadowed hypocrisy bombarding teenagers today as they struggle to find their own identity - often in the midst of unhappy parents, overwrought and underpaid teachers with a sick psychiatric system in our pill pushing society - the producers managed to make it into what they call a 'self-inflicted comedy.' And they succeeded.
For more info: Contact Regenerate Films for a showing near you
805-495-9709
805-495-9709
To find out more about a program that help teens cope, check out "Challenge Day"
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