Category: Cinema Medica

CINEMA MEDICA-OCTOBER 19TH VIRTUAL SCREENING (6pm)

CINEMA MEDICA-OCTOBER 19TH VIRTUAL SCREENING (6pm) 🗓

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Cinema Medica presents: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 

Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly depicts the life of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who developed locked-in syndrome resulting from a stroke at age 43. The film is based on the 1997 memoir of the same name, which Bauby wrote over ten months by blinking his left eyelid. Subjective cinematography – the story is told from Bauby’s literal point of view – voiceover, and impressionistic sequences convey Bauby’s rich inner world and interactions with various health care providers with great empathy. The film takes place in the hospital in Berck-sur-Mer where Bauby was a patient, with the staff making appearances in the cast.

View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPlcQfglFJg

Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 at 6pm.

How It Will Work: If you register, you will get a link to join us for the screening and discussion.

Register at https://forms.gle/31zfT2d6EtTfroxKA!

For more information, please contact Michael Tau: Michael.Tau@unityhealth.to

Cinema Medica - It's Nothing: Spotlight on Eating Disorders and Mental Health

Cinema Medica – It’s Nothing: Spotlight on Eating Disorders and Mental Health 🗓

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Cinema Medica (University of Toronto) presents… It’s Nothing: Spotlight on Eating Disorders and Mental Health

Join us for a virtual screening of the short film IT’S NOTHING, which screened at TIFF 2019. This film utilizes performance, sound, and metaphor to articulate the emotions, thoughts, and feelings of a young woman’s experience with an eating disorder. Following the screening, director Anna Maguire and writer Julia Lederer will participate in a Q&A about their creative process and their mutual interest in the expressive potential of both words and film.

Synopsis: A recent graduate is urged by an impossibly perfect woman to start digging a hole in a nearby park, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten her emotional balance and carefully maintained routines.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6kxMYXHN-k

 
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 6pm to 7pm

How It Will Work: If you register, you will get a link to join us for the screening and discussion.

Cost: FREE!

Please RSVP Here:  https://forms.gle/7zgCTQ1n6a4vReHW9

Guests:

Anna Maguire
Anna is a British/Canadian writer, director and actress. Her directorial work has screened at festivals including TIFF, Palm Springs, PÖFF Black Nights and the BFI London Film Festival where she was nominated for Best Short with Your Mother and I in 2016. She has won awards at The London Short Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Rhode Island, and Underwire among others, was long listed for a BAFTA, and nominated for Best Short at the 2018 London Critics’ Circle Awards. As an actress, Anna recently performed in Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project alongside Salma Hayek, Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard and can be seen in the upcoming film Violation by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli. Anna is passionate about film education, especially in under-served communities.

Julia Lederer
I’m a writer. My plays have been acclaimed internationally and produced across North America in places including Los Angeles, Chicago, Alaska, New York, Boise, Toronto, and Paris. I’ve also written film and television. My films continue to screen at festivals worldwide, including The Toronto International Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK), Cucalorus, Cinequest, Canadian Film Fest, and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. I worked on the 4th season of Kim’s Convenience as part of CBC’s Emerging Writers Room. I love what words can do. My favourite work to watch, read, and write is imaginative, poetic, and funny. It strives to see and understand our world, often from a sidestep outside it. I also write about feelings a lot, as they tend to drive everything, acknowledged or not.

Cinema Medica - The Cave: Global Health in the Spotlight

Cinema Medica – The Cave: Global Health in the Spotlight 🗓

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INVITATION: Cinema Medica – The Cave: Global Health in the Spotlight

January 19. 2021

Join us for a virtual screening and discussion of The Cave: Global Health in the Spotlight

Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (“Last Men in Aleppo”) delivers an unflinching story of the Syrian war with his powerful new documentary, The Cave (2019). For besieged civilians, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed their right to work as equals alongside their male counterparts, doing their jobs in a way that would be unthinkable in the oppressively patriarchal culture that exists above. Following the women as they contend with daily bombardments, chronic supply shortages and the ever-present threat of chemical attacks, The Cave paints a stirring portrait of courage, resilience and female solidarity.

Date & Time:  Tues Jan 19, 2021, 6pm

How It Will Work: If you register, you will get a link to watch the film a few days before the date; watch it at your convenience, then join us for the discussion on Jan 19 at 6pm!

Cost: FREE!

Please register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5LT2W6J

CINEMA MEDICA Workshop: Another Way of Seeing — How to Read & Discuss Film

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Workshop: A New Way of Seeing — How to Read & Discuss Film

Saturday, December 7th, 2-4 pm

Mount Sinai Hospital, Room 939

Film and television are powerful media for storytelling, making use of a wide range of expressive tools to convey meaning and to evoke emotional responses. This workshop will offer a practical introduction on how to engage more deeply with film in both individual and group settings. Through a series of interactive exercises and guided viewing, learn strategies and descriptive language for performing a close reading of a film—examining aspects of form and narrative—and leading, or participating in, group discussions about film.

Facilitator bio:

Elysse Leonard is a film educator and programmer who works at the intersections between film, mental health, and community engagement. With a background in Psychology and Cinema Studies, she is passionate about creating inclusive, interdisciplinary spaces for folks to connect, learn, and express themselves through film. Elysse is the film education lead for the Health, Arts & Humanities programme. She also oversees TIFF’s Mental Health Outreach programme, which brings film screenings and film-craft workshops to mental health programs across Toronto.

Please register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HK9CPFB

CINEMA MEDICA – Adaptations of Aging: Torching the Dusties & Piano Lessons

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This event features a screening of two short films about aging, featuring adaptations of literary texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.

Filmmaker and educator Marlene Goldman will join us after the screening for a conversation about the art of adaptation, person-centered narratives of aging and, and film as a vehicle for knowledge translation and empathy.

Marlene Goldman is a writer, filmmaker, and English professor at the University of Toronto. Her most recent work examines the connection between shame and stigma, specifically as relates to age. Exploring her subject through the lenses of literature, film, street art, and technology, Dr. Goldman seeks to re-imagine marginalized identities while translating her research into accessible narrative forms.

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 26, 6:30-8pm

Location: 500 University Ave., Room 150

Cost: FREE

Please register via https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3SGBTMC

About the films:

Torching the Dusties (2019)

Protestors have appeared outside the gates of Ambrosia Manor. From behind strange baby-faced masks, they issue a chillingly simple demand: it’s time for the residents of this posh retirement home to give up their space on earth. Based on the short story of the same name by Margaret Atwood, Torching the Dusties dramatizes issues arising from ageism, age-related macular degeneration, and Charles Bonnet Syndrome. The film was produced in partnership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) and York University’s Centre for Research on Vision. Trailer

Piano Lessons (2017)

Nancy’s late for an appointment, and she’s lost the address. Yet her surroundings look oddly familiar. With the help of her beloved granddaughter Alex, Nancy must learn to navigate the strange new territory she finds herself in. Adapted from the short story In Sight of the Lake by Alice Munro, Piano Lessons insightfully and empathetically depicts the experience of people with age-related dementia. The film presents a person-centered perspective, emphasizing not the cognitive decline in people with late-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s but the capacity for meaningful relationships and the knowledge that endures.

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Elysse Leonard
Senior Coordinator, Youth + Community Initiatives
Pronouns: she/her
TIFF-Scorsese-Akerman-Oshima
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Reitman Square

350 King Street West
Toronto, ON  M5V 3X5

Phone: 416.599.8433 ext.2246

email: eleonard@tiff.net
Website: www.tiff.net

CINEMA MEDICA Workshop: Another Way of Seeing — How to Read & Discuss Film

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Workshop: A New Way of Seeing — How to Read & Discuss Film

Saturday, December 7th, 2-4pm
Mount Sinai Hospital, Room 939

Film and television are powerful media for storytelling, making use of a wide range of expressive tools to convey meaning and to evoke emotional responses. This workshop will offer a practical introduction on how to engage more deeply with film in both individual and group settings. Through a series of interactive exercises and guided viewing, learn strategies and descriptive language for performing a close reading of a film—examining aspects of form and narrative—and leading, or participating in, group discussions about film.

Facilitator bio:

Elysse Leonard is a film educator and programmer who works at the intersections between film, mental health, and community engagement. With a background in Psychology and Cinema Studies, she is passionate about creating inclusive, interdisciplinary spaces for folks to connect, learn, and express themselves through film. Elysse is the film education lead for the Health, Arts & Humanities programme. She also oversees TIFF’s Mental Health Outreach programme, which brings film screenings and film-craft workshops to mental health programs across Toronto.

Please register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HK9CPFB

CINEMA MEDICA SCREENING November 26

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CINEMA MEDICA Screening-RSVP below

Adaptations of Aging: Torching the Dusties & Piano Lessons

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This event features a screening of two short films about aging, featuring adaptations of literary texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Filmmaker and educator Marlene Goldman will join us after the screening for a conversation about the art of adaptation, person-centered narratives of aging and, and film as a vehicle for knowledge translation and empathy.

Marlene Goldman is a writer, filmmaker, and English professor at the University of Toronto. Her most recent work examines the connection between shame and stigma, specifically as relates to age. Exploring her subject through the lenses of literature, film, street art, and technology, Dr. Goldman seeks to re-imagine marginalized identities while translating her research into accessible narrative forms.

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 26, 6:30-8pm

Location: 500 University Ave., Room 150

Cost: FREE

Please register via https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3SGBTMC

About the films:

Torching the Dusties (2019)

Protestors have appeared outside the gates of Ambrosia Manor. From behind strange baby-faced masks, they issue a chillingly simple demand: it’s time for the residents of this posh retirement home to give up their space on earth. Based on the short story of the same name by Margaret Atwood, Torching the Dusties dramatizes issues arising from ageism, age-related macular degeneration, and Charles Bonnet Syndrome. The film was produced in partnership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) and York University’s Centre for Research on Vision. Trailer

Piano Lessons (2017)

Nancy’s late for an appointment, and she’s lost the address. Yet her surroundings look oddly familiar. With the help of her beloved granddaughter Alex, Nancy must learn to navigate the strange new territory she finds herself in. Adapted from the short story In Sight of the Lake by Alice Munro, Piano Lessons insightfully and empathetically depicts the experience of people with age-related dementia. The film presents a person-centered perspective, emphasizing not the cognitive decline in people with late-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s but the capacity for meaningful relationships and the knowledge that endures.

Cinema Medica Presents: Bedside Manner screening

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Join us for a screening of Bedside Manner (2016), a short film that explores the important role of performance in physician-patient encounters through the lens of standardized patient simulations. The screening will be accompanied by a discussion with the visiting filmmaker, Corinne Botz, and collaborator Dr. Alice Flaherty, who is a neurologist at Harvard.

RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P3KHG7K 

Key learning themes:
Communication, e.g., empathy, professionalism
Performance and health outcomes, e.g., help-seeking behaviours, physician wellness
Person-centred approaches to care

Synopsis:

In the 18-minute film Bedside Manner (2016, Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Best Short at the DOC NYC Festival, Oscar-qualifying), director Corinne Botz explores doctor-patient encounters through the lens of standardized patient simulations. It broadens the traditional medical gaze to include doctors as well as patients. It creates an uncanny space in which viewers and participants suspend disbelief and rehearse for trauma.

The film begins with the repeated simulation of a case of delirium that highlights the wavering boundary between reality and art in medicine. Standardized patients and students connect in an ensemble performance of acting sick and playing doctor, yet the encounters are also real. The film’s protagonist, the neurologist Alice Flaherty, plays herself as a doctor, standardized patient, and real patient, and raises questions about the importance of acting well.

Presenters:

Corinne Botz is a Brooklyn-based photographic artist, writer and filmmaker, whose work has been shown internationally. She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her best known book, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, first brought Frances Glessner Lee’s dioramas of violent death to the attention of the art world. The dioramas will be shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this winter.

Alice Flaherty trained as a neurologist and now has a joint appointment in psychiatry. She has written three award-winning books, all of which have been translated into several languages. Two have been multiply dramatized. Her book The Midnight Disease explores the neurology of creativity. Flaherty is writing a book about the role of acting in both the art of medicine and the under-studied art of being a patient. In the course of her research she has appeared in over 25 television productions, and consulted on two Hollywood doctor show pilots.

Date: Monday, March 11, 6pm
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital (600 University Ave) – 18th floor auditorium
Time: 6:30-8pm

Cinema Medica Screening Feb 19 at 6pm

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Bending the Arc (2017)

All are welcome – RSVP Below

Join us for a screening of Bending the Arc (2017), a documentary about the work two physicians and a social activist did to establish Partners in Health in Haiti. The screening will be followed by a short discussion period for those interested.
RSVP (free!) here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XY552VQ

Film synopsis

30 years ago in Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, and activist Ophelia Dahl began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/234590618

This event is happening on Feb 19, 2019, at 6pm, at 500 University Ave., Room 140.

Admission is free, and there will be refreshments and snacks!

RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XY552VQ

Cinema Medica Screening on Opioid Crisis-November 27

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East Hastings Pharmacy: Film Screening and Interactive Panel Discussion

Join us for a panel discussion and screening of East Hastings Pharmacy (2012), which pertains to the opioid crisis in Canada. The screening (approximately 60 mins) will be followed by a panel discussion about the film, the opioid crisis, and the meaning of harm reduction, featuring the filmmaker and clinical experts in the topic (details TBD).

RSVP (free!) here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JC5DNM2

Film synopsis
A blend of documentary and fiction, this film chronicles a typical pharmacy of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist. East Hastings Pharmacy is a site of rituals and repeated interactions where quiet routine and confrontation follow each other in one continuous movement.

This event is happening on November 27, 2018, at 6pm, at 500 University Ave., Room 140. Admission is free, and there will be refreshments and snacks!

RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JC5DNM2

The Mary Seeman Humanities Award 2019

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Call for Submissions: Mary Seeman Humanities WRITING Award: 2019

The Mary Seeman Humanities Award: 2019: Deadline April 12, 2019

This award is intended to encourage creative and scholarly activity in the interface between the humanities and issues related to mental illness and emotional well-being. The award is open to students from Dentistry, Kinesiology and Physical Education, Medicine (including undergraduate, residents and fellows), Nursing, Medical Radiation Sciences, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, psychology , Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Social Work, Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Toronto, as well as students from medical humanities disciplines including literary studies, history, bio-ethics and disability studies. The award is based on documented evidence of completed work of artistic and/or scholarly merit that contributes to a better understanding of the human condition. Submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, creativity and relevance to mental health and illness.

Please note only one submission per applicant will be accepted.

The following guidelines are suggested to assist applicants in preparation of their submissions.

1. a) The submission must be sole-authored and previously unpublished. To qualify for inclusion the submission must be:
i. a scholarly essay in the area of humanities and mental illness

ii. a personal memoir, medical illness narrative

iii. a short story

iv. a description of program development that integrates humanities and mental health
All above formats may be illustrated, if appropriate, by drawings, photography or video but the core of the submission must be a well-written narrative
Word content of submitted narratives should be no greater than 4000 words.

If applicants are uncertain about the suitability of a submission, they are encouraged to contact any of the committee members. Submissions will be judged by the committee, with outside consultation where appropriate.

Deadline for submissions is April 12, 2019. The award consists of a certificate and cheque for $ 500.00

Prospective applications and queries should be addressed to:

Dr. Ron Ruskin Department of Psychiatry (ronaldruskinmd@aol.com) Mount Sinai Hospital 600 University Avenue, Toronto, M5G 1X5

Cinema Medica Presents: RADAR (Recovery Advocacy Documentary Action Research)

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Cinema Medica Presents:

RADAR (Recovery Advocacy Documentary Action Research)

RADAR is a collective of consumer survivors and academics making short films about mental illness — a product of  a research project led by Dr. Robert Whitley of McGill University and The Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal. One of the project’s main goals is to raise awareness and reduce stigma around mental illness by giving consumer survivors the opportunity to tell their own stories. For the past 18 months, RADAR has provided members of Sound Times Support Services in Toronto with equipment and training to allow them to conceive and produce their own short documentary videos about issues surrounding mental health.

Featuring a selection of short films created by consumer survivors followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers!

Admission is free but seating is limited.

Date: Tuesday, Jan 9th
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital, 9th floor, room 939