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Homeland and My Mad Fat Teenage Diary are among the shows nominated at the Mind Media Awards 2013.
Olivia Colman has also been signed up as a gust presenter for the ceremony, which is organised by the mental health charity and sponsored by Virgin Money Giving.
Channel 4 have a notable presence in the awards shortlist following their dedicated season of programming about mental health programmes, Channel 4 Goes Mad.
The full list of Mind Media Awards nominations is as follows:
Documentary
Stacey Solomon: Depression, Teen Mums & Me (BBC Three)
Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions (Channel 4)
Jon Richardson: A Little Bit Ocd (Channel 4)
Stephen Fry & Kay Redfield Jamison (Sky Arts)
Drama
The Village
In The Flesh
My Mad Fat Teenage Diary
Homeland
The Ian Wilkinson News and Current Affairs Award
BBC Scotland: Mental Health Care Plan
Channel 4 News: Mental Health Series
Newsnight: Male Suicide...
Olivia Colman has also been signed up as a gust presenter for the ceremony, which is organised by the mental health charity and sponsored by Virgin Money Giving.
Channel 4 have a notable presence in the awards shortlist following their dedicated season of programming about mental health programmes, Channel 4 Goes Mad.
The full list of Mind Media Awards nominations is as follows:
Documentary
Stacey Solomon: Depression, Teen Mums & Me (BBC Three)
Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions (Channel 4)
Jon Richardson: A Little Bit Ocd (Channel 4)
Stephen Fry & Kay Redfield Jamison (Sky Arts)
Drama
The Village
In The Flesh
My Mad Fat Teenage Diary
Homeland
The Ian Wilkinson News and Current Affairs Award
BBC Scotland: Mental Health Care Plan
Channel 4 News: Mental Health Series
Newsnight: Male Suicide...
- 9/12/2013
- Digital Spy
Courtesy of Sundog Pictures, a Morgan Freeman-narrated feature documentary titled Breaking the Taboo, which follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States-led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the "biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years." Breaking the Taboo is produced by Sam Branson's Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes. It was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Sundog Pictures put...
- 12/10/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Sundog Pictures released its feature documentary "Breaking the Taboo" to YouTube on Friday, giving the world a free look at its nearly hour-long film on the catastrophic failures of the international war on drugs.
(Watch the entire film above)
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, "Breaking the Taboo" features appearances from former President Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both of whom admit that the policies they pursued to support the drug war were not successful.
Wired recently reviewed the film and spoke with its director, Fernando Andrade. From Ian Steadman's story at Wired:
Breaking the Taboo is straightforwardly honest about its message from the start -- the war on drugs is futile and misguided, and it makes people's lives miserable. It makes its points clearly: the drug war has devastated South American countries; it has devastated poor communities in the Us; it's given rise to a huge prison-industrial complex in the...
(Watch the entire film above)
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, "Breaking the Taboo" features appearances from former President Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both of whom admit that the policies they pursued to support the drug war were not successful.
Wired recently reviewed the film and spoke with its director, Fernando Andrade. From Ian Steadman's story at Wired:
Breaking the Taboo is straightforwardly honest about its message from the start -- the war on drugs is futile and misguided, and it makes people's lives miserable. It makes its points clearly: the drug war has devastated South American countries; it has devastated poor communities in the Us; it's given rise to a huge prison-industrial complex in the...
- 12/7/2012
- by Nick Wing
- Huffington Post
★★★★☆ When Sundog Pictures, the producers of Cosmo Feilding-Mellen's activist documentary Breaking the Taboo (2011), wrote to Morgan Freeman asking him to narrate their disquisition on the colossal failures of the war on drugs, Freeman replied, "At last, a voice of reason. Count me in". A persuasively urgent call to conscience from the libertarian left, Freeman joins a cavalcade of talking heads, from ex-offenders to former Presidents, in denouncing the quixotic, 'one-size-fits-all' drug policy set out in the 1961 Un Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Fifty years on and the policies of prohibition are shown to create more problems than they prevent.
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- 12/7/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Richard Branson and son launch documentary they hope will match impact of An Inconvenient Truth
Current and former world leaders on the frontline of the Us-led war on drugs have called for a radical change of approach in a British-made film, to be launched online on Friday, that aims to do for global drugs policy what An Inconvenient Truth did to highlight manmade climate change.
By featuring a host of leaders, experts, opinion formers and household names pointing out the devastation they say has been inflicted on communities through prohibition, Breaking the Taboo seeks to persuade politicians to put aside fears about being seen as soft on drugs and explore alternatives.
Among those featured are Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and former Us president Bill Clinton, who admits bluntly that the Us-led war on drugs in Colombia "hasn't worked". Clinton also talks about the need for rehabilitation rather than incarceration when dealing with addicts.
Current and former world leaders on the frontline of the Us-led war on drugs have called for a radical change of approach in a British-made film, to be launched online on Friday, that aims to do for global drugs policy what An Inconvenient Truth did to highlight manmade climate change.
By featuring a host of leaders, experts, opinion formers and household names pointing out the devastation they say has been inflicted on communities through prohibition, Breaking the Taboo seeks to persuade politicians to put aside fears about being seen as soft on drugs and explore alternatives.
Among those featured are Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and former Us president Bill Clinton, who admits bluntly that the Us-led war on drugs in Colombia "hasn't worked". Clinton also talks about the need for rehabilitation rather than incarceration when dealing with addicts.
- 12/5/2012
- by Haroon Siddique
- The Guardian - Film News
The U.S. government has been fighting a costly and deadly "War on Drugs" since 1971, but if the decision by voters in the states of Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana -- a Schedule 1 controlled substance -- is any indication, it's fairly obvious Uncle Sam is losing. Morgan Freeman hopes to point out just how badly by lending his soothing voice to the documentary "Breaking the Taboo." Available on YouTube starting Dec. 7, 2012, the film tries to explain why the War on Drugs hasn't succeeded in creating a drug-free society...
- 11/23/2012
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
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