Bedlam (2019)
- Directed by
- Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
- Country
- United States
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This documentary follows patients and families navigating America's broken system for serious mental illness. It visits emergency rooms, jails, and homeless encampments to show how people with mental illness are treated. The filmmaker is a psychiatrist whose own family has been affected by these issues.
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What happens
Bedlam is a 2019 American feature-length documentary directed, produced, and written by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg. Produced, and written by Peter Miller, co-produced by Joan Churchill and Alan Barker, edited by Jim Cricchi, with additional editing by James Holland, it immerses us in the national crisis surrounding care of people with serious mental illness through intimate stories of patients, families, and medical providers. Filmed over five years, Bedlam brings us inside one of America's busiest psychiatric emergency rooms, into jails where psychiatric patients are warehoused, and to the homes – and homeless encampments – of members of our communities affected with serious mental illness, where silence and shame often compound personal suffering. The story is told in part by director Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD, a psychiatrist as well as a filmmaker, whose own life journey has been profoundly impacted by a family member with a serious mental illness. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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