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.
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...
…And the results are in! Art With Impact (AWI) is delighted to congratulate the ten filmmakers who have each been selected to receive a Voices With Impact film production grant! If you know us, you’re...
By Natalie Daley In October after the release of the popular ‘A Star Is Born’, some of our staff discussed their varied reactions to the highly buzzed-about film. While the general consensus was...
by Cary McQueen I lived in Pittsburgh, PA from 2001 to 2007 and still have a lot of people there that I love. A week ago Saturday I started seeing friends marking themselves...
Hello, my name is Cariele, I’m 25 years old and I live in Brazil! I really like to write, as it fills the need to work through my emotions and what I am...
Have we mentioned how awesome our volunteers are lately?! via GIPHY We connect with so many amazing humans doing this work, and the AWI volunteer network consists of diverse, quirky and passionate humans...
Hey filmmakers! In our last blog, we discussed tips on how to utilize film resources at a college or university campus. This week we build on that and have collected advice on how...
Hello, film enthusiasts! We’re excited today to feature Montreal-based Cinema Politica, an organization we previously profiled five years ago. Their exciting Documentary Futurism project is celebrating their 15th anniversary and as a result are...
