Keyword: asylum

The Purgation

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2015

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Ever since she was a little girl, Iris has wanted to be a filmmaker. For the last five years though, shes been trapped working in reality television, directing episodes for a series thats barely able to compete with Ghost Hunters. Iris sees her big chance to prove herself when gets sent on assignment to her hometown of Black Falls, a small town harboring an abandoned insane asylum that has a dark history of excessive shock therapy. Filming inside the asylum brings back childhood memories for Iris, memories of sneaking into the asylum with her friends to shoot homemade horror movies. Little does Iris know, her life is about to imitate her art.

Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson

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2015

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PACKED IN A TRUNK is the story of artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, committed to an asylum in 1924 and never heard from again. All her worldly possessions were packed into trunks and shipped to a relative in West Virginia where they sat in an attic for 40 years. Ediths great-niece, Emmy Award winning writer and director Jane Anderson, grew up surrounded by Ediths paintings, thanks to her mother who had gone poking through that dusty attic and rescued Ediths work. The film follows Jane in her decades-long journey to find the answers to the mystery of Ediths buried life, return the work to Provincetown and have Ediths contributions recognized by the larger art world.

This Is Home: A Refugee Story

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2018

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Four Syrian families struggling to find their way in America.