Art With Impact promotes mental wellness by creating space for young people to learn and connect through art and media. Our weekly blogs inform about the latest films, documentaries and campaigns (the good and the bad) that are using art as a way to express realities of mental illness and to break barriers of understanding issues related mental health.
Matt Walting is making his directorial debut with the newly released ‘Just Say Goodbye’, the story of a young woman trying to save the life of her suicidal friend. After enduring years of...
By Evelyn Gutierrez, Current Student, UCSB Calming anxiety can be a real challenge. I know because I have dealt with anxiety for a decade now. For the first number of years navigating my...
My name is Karthik, and I’m from Bangalore, India. I work as a freelance artist (painting, illustrating and content writing) and am a tarot reader. I’ve become more passionate about mental health awareness,...
What do you do when an all-female filmmaking team introduces you to a film shining a light on the aftermath of sexual assault? You interview them, of course! We were excited to connect...
We caught up with the team behind the forthcoming short 'What We're Meant For' a story of a 13-year-old girl and her relationship with her dad, shortly after the passing of her mom....
We caught up with one of the writers behind the forthcoming film “MOONFISH“, a short film about a young woman’s mental health journey to self-discovery. Along with Executive Producer Ben Drew (aka Plan B), Natalia and...
By Isabelle, University of Connecticut Student There is a “behind closed doors” aspect to everyone’s life. A lot of the time, that part of people’s life revolves around their internal relationship with mental...
AWI is pleased to introduce you to Chrisann Hessing, the director of the short documentary ‘Turning Tables‘ about emerging Canadian PowWow Techno music producer and dancer Classic Roots! Chrisann’s film has been described...
