Canvas is a touching sensitive film that accurately portrays how mental illness can affect the mentally ill person and that person's family. The main actors do a great job of playing their characters. The film depicts that there is hope for a better life for all involved, despite the traumas that might be incurred in reaching that point.
Hopefully, this film will raise awareness and knowledge of the mentally ill in the general public. Mental illness is a common, organically based disease that responds well to treatment, yet many people do not even seek treatment because of the terrible stigma associated with mental illness. That stigma is rooted largely in the public's ignorance of the causes, prevalence, symptoms, and treatment of mental illness
Hopefully, this film will raise awareness and knowledge of the mentally ill in the general public. Mental illness is a common, organically based disease that responds well to treatment, yet many people do not even seek treatment because of the terrible stigma associated with mental illness. That stigma is rooted largely in the public's ignorance of the causes, prevalence, symptoms, and treatment of mental illness