The following article contains discussions of mental health conditions, violence, and suicide.
While the entertainment industry is notorious for misrepresenting many illnesses, conditions, and disorders, there are many movie characters who accurately portray mental health. Cinema has had a dubious history of portraying mental health in an authentic or even sensitive light. The perceived dramatic nature of a mental illness has notoriously meant it's too often conveyed as a means to broadcast sentimentality or sensationalism. Additionally, "madness" has been used by horror films as a justification for all kinds of unspeakable acts. However, Hollywood also occasionally gets it right, and there are plenty of movie characters with mental disorders that aren't portrayed problematically.
The exploration of mental illness and mental health disorders in movies has improved dramatically over the last few decades, with an emphasis on authenticity and care towards humanization. Depictions that are seen as genuine across myriad genres,...
While the entertainment industry is notorious for misrepresenting many illnesses, conditions, and disorders, there are many movie characters who accurately portray mental health. Cinema has had a dubious history of portraying mental health in an authentic or even sensitive light. The perceived dramatic nature of a mental illness has notoriously meant it's too often conveyed as a means to broadcast sentimentality or sensationalism. Additionally, "madness" has been used by horror films as a justification for all kinds of unspeakable acts. However, Hollywood also occasionally gets it right, and there are plenty of movie characters with mental disorders that aren't portrayed problematically.
The exploration of mental illness and mental health disorders in movies has improved dramatically over the last few decades, with an emphasis on authenticity and care towards humanization. Depictions that are seen as genuine across myriad genres,...
- 1/8/2025
- by Kayleena Pierce-Bohen, Colin McCormick, Amanda Bruce
- ScreenRant
New York City-based global documentary film sales agent Cargo Film & Releasing has nabbed world rights, excluding Denmark and Sweden, to Mads Hedegaard’s feature length documentary debut “Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest,” which premiered at last week’s Cph:dox and plays this week at Hot Docs.
The feel-good film centers on Kim Cannon Arm, who is not your average grandpa. With killer hand-eye coordination and a mean mullet, he’s a legendary fixture at Copenhagen’s Bip Bip Bar, and renowned for playing the 80s arcade game Gyruss for 49 hours straight on a single coin. With help from his buddies at the bar, a community of outsiders who support one another no matter what, Kim attempts to obliterate his previous record and play for 100 consecutive hours – or four days.
In this often humorous film, Hedegaard provides a philosophical look at world records, iconic hairdos, the importance of community, and an unlikely hero.
The feel-good film centers on Kim Cannon Arm, who is not your average grandpa. With killer hand-eye coordination and a mean mullet, he’s a legendary fixture at Copenhagen’s Bip Bip Bar, and renowned for playing the 80s arcade game Gyruss for 49 hours straight on a single coin. With help from his buddies at the bar, a community of outsiders who support one another no matter what, Kim attempts to obliterate his previous record and play for 100 consecutive hours – or four days.
In this often humorous film, Hedegaard provides a philosophical look at world records, iconic hairdos, the importance of community, and an unlikely hero.
- 5/4/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The film follows Jan Grarup as he juggles parenting teenagers with his job visiting war zones.
Copenhagen-based LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Boris B. Bertram’s Danish documentary feature Photographer Of War.
The film is about the world-renowned Danish photographer Jan Grarup, the four-time winner of the World Press Photo of The Year award, It depicts Grarup’s challenges with balancing work and family life when his ex-wife is diagnosed with cancer, and he has to take care of his three teenage children in Denmark while continuing his work in various danger zones around the world.
Bertram worked with Grarup for five years,...
Copenhagen-based LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Boris B. Bertram’s Danish documentary feature Photographer Of War.
The film is about the world-renowned Danish photographer Jan Grarup, the four-time winner of the World Press Photo of The Year award, It depicts Grarup’s challenges with balancing work and family life when his ex-wife is diagnosed with cancer, and he has to take care of his three teenage children in Denmark while continuing his work in various danger zones around the world.
Bertram worked with Grarup for five years,...
- 7/3/2019
- by Tofe Ayeni
- ScreenDaily
The film follows Jan Grarup as he juggles parenting teenagers with his job visiting war zones.
Copenhagen-based LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Boris B. Bertram’s Danish documentary feature Photographer Of War.
The film is about the world-renowned Danish photographer Jan Grarup, the four-time winner of the World Press Photo of The Year award, It depicts Grarup’s challenges with balancing work and family life when his ex-wife is diagnosed with cancer, and he has to take care of his three teenage children in Denmark while continuing his work in various danger zones around the world.
Bertram worked with Grarup for five years,...
Copenhagen-based LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Boris B. Bertram’s Danish documentary feature Photographer Of War.
The film is about the world-renowned Danish photographer Jan Grarup, the four-time winner of the World Press Photo of The Year award, It depicts Grarup’s challenges with balancing work and family life when his ex-wife is diagnosed with cancer, and he has to take care of his three teenage children in Denmark while continuing his work in various danger zones around the world.
Bertram worked with Grarup for five years,...
- 7/3/2019
- by Tofe Ayeni
- ScreenDaily
Today, the San Francisco Film Society today announced the ten finalists for the 2016 Sffs Documentary Film Fund awards totaling $75,000. The Sffs Documentary Film Fund supports feature-length documentaries in postproduction and was created to support singular nonfiction film work. Finalists were selected from more than 200 applications, and winners will be announced in mid-September.
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Dff has an excellent track record for championing compelling films that have gone on to earn great acclaim. Previous winners include Zachary Heinzerling’s “Cutie and the Boxer,” which won Sundance’s Directing Award for documentary and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature; Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s “American Promise,”which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the festival’s Special Jury Prize in the documentary category; and Moby Longinotto’s “The Joneses,” which premiered at the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Dff has an excellent track record for championing compelling films that have gone on to earn great acclaim. Previous winners include Zachary Heinzerling’s “Cutie and the Boxer,” which won Sundance’s Directing Award for documentary and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature; Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s “American Promise,”which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the festival’s Special Jury Prize in the documentary category; and Moby Longinotto’s “The Joneses,” which premiered at the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival.
- 8/18/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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