Extra Ordinary People Film Premiere

Peterborough Band’s Film Premieres at Behind the Mind’s Eye Film Festival

Extra Ordinary People, Laura Sky’s latest feature documentary, includes a dynamic segment featuring a group of local musicians who use their music to aid in their recovery. The film reveals the effects of society’s stigma and discrimination against people living with mental illness and addiction. The film’s subjects include a group of young Peterborough rock’n’rollers, a former Bay Street VP and a young aboriginal man adopted into a white family whose path to recovery is through reconnection with his native culture. Recovery is central to this feature length Sky Works film; the stories show that discrimination is the major barrier facing people whose strengths and spirits far outweigh their diagnosis.

As part of the 6th Annual Behind the Mind’s Eye Festival, the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Peterborough Regional Health Centre join together to premiere the film, Extra Ordinary People, at the Galaxy Cinema on Thursday, May 1st. Graham Hart will moderate a panel discussion following the evening screening of Extra Ordinary People and will introduce to the audience some of the truly extraordinary people who give the film its title. For more information, please contact the following: Joni White at 705-748-6711, ext 216 or jwhite@peterborough.cmha.on.ca, or Jennifer Robertson at 705-749-1753 or jrobertson@schizophrenia.on.ca.