Alison McMahan moderates test screening of Pearl J. Park's documentary CAN, September 28th

SHOW & GROW September 28th: CAN, by Pearl J. Park
Register Now, Space is Limited!

Splash Studios
49 West 23rd St, 6th Floor
NYC
 The program will begin at 5:30 with refreshments and socializing.
Seating is limited to the first fifteen (15) people who respond, so you MUST RSVP to:
[email protected]
in order to attend.


ABOUT THE FILM

 

 

What does it take to heal from mental illness? This 56-minute documentary film Can follows 37-year-old Can Truong’s journey of trying to overcome depression and bipolar disorder over a 3 and 1/2 year period. After trying more than 20 different medications and undergoing 7 hospitalizations and 15 electro-convulsive shock treatments without success, he falls into suicidal despair. Shortly after, he embarks on healing journey of the emotional and spiritual kind as he becomes one of the few Asian Americans active in the mental health consumer movement, a national civil rights effort by people with mental illnesses for autonomy and dignity.

Pearl Ji-hyon Park #PhotoR2121
Producer/Director, Can
[email protected]
Please visit the film's website: amongourkin.org
Blog: can-documentary.blogspot.com


PRODUCER/DIRECTOR BIO


 


 


Pearl J. Park has been involved for the past 15 years in the various aspects of production for videos, print design, and presentation graphics for live corporate  productions, both domestically and internationally. Prior to this, she was in print journalism at a newspaper and medical center for 4 years. She studied documentary production at Downtown Community Television, the non-profit media center dedicated to social change through film. Born in Korea and raised in Miami, FL, Park also has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Florida International University.




ABOUT SHOW AND GROW
A Focus Group for your Rough Cut By filmmakers for filmmakers.

Show and Grow is the test-screening and feedback program, and member benefit that NYWIFT offers to its members. Any member who has worked in any capacity on a film can bring in a rough cut to screen to a small audience. The audience then fills out especially prepared questionnaires, followed by a discussion moderated by NYWIFT member, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film scholar Alison McMahan, www.HomunculusProds.com

Show and Grow events are held at the screening room of our sponsor, the full-service audio post-production studio Splash Studios, 49 West 23rd Street , 6th Floor, NY, NY 10010. (212) 271-8747
http://www.splash-studios.com/main.html

To submit a film to Show and Grow, please contact Alison McMahan:  [email protected]
Give her the title and genre of your film, the stage of completion, a website if there is one, the length, and a synopsis.