documentary

Our goal is to have mental health education available to everyone from the comfort of their homes. A reflection of our mission, the intention of our film is to leave our audience equipped with the tools to save lives, the knowledge to handle mental health, the ability to have open conversations, the encouragement to get help, and the inspiration to help others.

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Halfway through filming

We have spent the past few years raising funds, gathering resources, creating connections, and booking interviews. It takes an army to create a meaningful film. Help us turn our most impactful project into reality. Every second counts, one suicide occurs every twelve seconds. Anyone could be affected: a friend, neighbor, relative, loved one, or yourself. It is absolutely vital to be able to recognize and handle signs of distress and how to approach such topics. Thank you for helping us to kill the silence around mental health and suicide and to save lives.

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interviews

All of the brave participants featured in our documentary are actively fighting against the taboo. Their stories are real, at times heartbreaking but ultimately, inspirational. They have battled, survived, and they are not afraid to admit it.

We also work with many mental health professionals, executives, and treatment centers to provide life saving information.

If you are interested in collaborating, sponsoring, or offering your film services, please contact us.

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the documentary

Imagine giving people not only the ability and knowledge of how to, but also, importantly, the desire to start having necessary conversations– conversations and strategies that can lead to more lives being saved. As a nonprofit, Breaking Taboo is providing knowledge to the public that they can carry with them every day for the rest of their lives, as well as the inspiration that will empower them to fulfill a life worth living.

Through this first-of-it’s-kind documentary, we can start turning that around immediately and effectively. This educational awareness documentary explores society’s taboo around mental health while providing useful education and real life, tangible tools. It is an awesome opportunity to set examples of open dialogue about otherwise silently misunderstood topics while teaching life-saving tools that viewers can utilize in their own lives. Using empathy and education to break shame and stigma, all those struggling with mental health in any capacity can openly work toward recovery. Now is the time to change society at large.

funding allocation

Funds received will support the continued filming and development of our documentary projects. Our funds will go toward facilitating their interviews and on location filming (studio space, cameras, travel, sound and lighting equipment, and other production necessities).

Funding will allow us to respond quickly when filming opportunities arise, as many subjects and advocates for this work travel great distances across the world and across the country to share their stories. Funding will also allow for on location filming to showcase the world of mental health, treatment centers, institutions, etc.

These funds will also enable us to complete necessary and expensive post production costs such as editing, sound and color correction, and the marketing and distribution necessary to ensure that the educational film becomes accessible to anyone and everyone who might be in need of help.

Our plan is to have our film shown as part of our ongoing mental health course for school systems and campuses across the country.

Too often people don’t know when someone close to them is suffering, We provide the tools to recognize warning signs and encourage discussion and intervention. Additionally, we hope to reach people who are suffering from mental health issues and feel ostracized or isolated. We promote the message that there is nothing wrong with talking about mental health, and that taking care of one’s mental health is paramount to leading a healthy life. Suicide and mental health conditions do not discriminate, it effects men and women of all demographics and circumstances; all ages, all religious and political backgrounds, all economic and social backgrounds, all races, all cultures, all gender identities. Therefore, our intended audience is anyone who feels like they are suffering, anyone who wants to reach out for help and doesn’t know how, anyone who knows someone who is suffer, anyone who may in the future come across someone who will be suffering, and anyone who may otherwise miss the warning signs that, if recognized, could mean the difference between life and death.

At Breaking Taboo, our mission is to save lives by promoting mental health awareness and encouraging conversation around “taboo” topics. Our ultimate desire is that those who watch and share our film will gain practical, useful knowledge that will help them take immediate, actionable steps to increase awareness of mental health issues, and take steps to save the lives of those who would otherwise be shamed into silence, or even for their own lives. They will also have access resources, which we will encourage them to share with their networks, magnifying the impact of this life changing and life-saving work.