Out of Sight: Stop the Stigma, Start a Conversation (2017)

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Out of Sight: Stop the Stigma, Start a Conversation sheds a much needed light on the issues of teen mental illness and suicide. The film features powerful interviews with struggling teens, teachers, and the parents of struggling children. Focusing on the lack of mental health options available for effectively treating mental illness in the US health care system, the film works to remove the stigma surrounding the treatment of mental health issues. The documentary is a touching reminder to treat all people with kindness because you never know what issues they might be facing.

Out of Sight is an excellent documentary that discusses an important and poorly understood issue. It tells its story largely through interviews with teenagers who have or currently struggle with mental illness and suicidal thoughts. It also includes the stories of adults who have been affected by this issue, sometimes irreversibly by the loss of a child to suicide. Despite the sad subject matter, the tone is ultimately hopeful and leaves the viewer inspired to make changes in their lives to better support their friends or organizations who work in this field. The people behind this film, most of whom were in their teens themselves when production began and who have been working on a shoestring budget, have made something very impressive and everyone should find time to see it.

Out of Sight is a true eye opener to the realities of mental illnesses in teens and young adults. It features many touching first hand accounts of mental illness and seeks to inform the population of whats going on behind the scenes. The documentary is short but does hit home with the points it makes. The crew behind the movie did a good job of taking the stories from a dozen plus people and driving the point of how shunned and hidden away mental illness is in our society. The crew did an amazing job of editing the film and its easy to follow throughout the entirety of the movie. This would be a great film to play in the classroom as well. A true must watch that will change your life.

Ever since the "it gets better" movement, this crucial message has been begging to be shown in a work of film. "Out of Sight" is the film this message needed. A truly touching and thoughtful piece, this film gets to the core of why this pandemic is happening and why our culture needs to change. It is truly a moving film and it starts a conversation that our society needs to have. The filmmakers are not afraid to get into the serious discussion points of depression and suicide, which makes this film so important not only to those suffering but also to those who know someone struggling with these issues. If there was ever a fun to summarize the struggle these teens and young adults go through, this is it.