Vision Project would like to announce the screening of a film
by
Keith Maciog & Geer Teng
DOROTHEA’S TEARS
The State of Mental Health Care in America
For over 50 years, America has been shutting down its state mental hospitals. The Movement known as “deinstitutionalization” was intended to normalize the mentally ill and integrate them into the community. However, while once they were cared for by the states, the severely mentally ill are ending up in our nation’s prisons, on our city streets, and in county morgues. Few small towns in our nation better symbolize the problems with the mental health system than Newtown, CT – site of the former Fairfield Hills State Hospital and of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. This film documents those who have worked (and currently work) in the trenches of the mental health system, and those who have felt the impact of a system that many have dubbed a “failure”.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion that includes the filmmakers
and other experts within the field of mental health care.
Dorothea’s Tears At Bethel Cinema
July 18 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
- Bethel Cinema
- 269 Greenwood Ave
Bethel, 6801 United States