FORGIVENESS
Documentary Proposal
A group of strangers are brought together to talk about how their childhood and upbringing affected them in their adult life and reveal how similar or how different these stories are from each other. Will these individuals be able to face their family, and their past?
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They will venture to discuss how their childhood has affected them in their adult. They will try to determine any similarities between the four to see if there is a coherent pattern that can be discerned from the stories. Will religion be the most probable cause for the trauma, if any at all? Or will it be traditional cultural upbringing that’ll be the culprit to the pain? Is there a path to Forgiveness? Or is it too much to forgive the pain of the past? In the end, they will be given the chance to talk with their family members one on one, only time will tell what may be revealed or repaired.
Does it also attribute to the growing loneliness issue we have? That because their past, and their childhood was so traumatic in that way, does it affect them in forming relationships and keeping them in their adult years? Or is the opposite true?
Documentary Final Project: Courtesy of Jocelyn Wong (Director)
In 2020, one person dies of suicide in every 40 seconds. Suicide is the second biggest cause of death in young people aged 15-24.
This tells us a lot about how our minds are coping with changes in world at the moment. What can we do to take care and strengthen our mental health before it's too late? What's keeping us from trying out mindfulness and incorporating it intentionally in our lives?
Meditation seems to have become the 21 century new pill with more and more scientific research proving its effectiveness in treating mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, or just helping us be more focused, better manage our emotional impulses, and reduce stress.
Mindfulness means being in the present moment, and noticing your thoughts and surrounding environment non-judgmentally.
How does mindfulness feel and what makes it so powerful? And how does young people like us perceive mindfulness and meditation? What's keeping us from believing in its power to nourish our minds like going to the gym for our bodies?
These are the questions that the film aims to investigate by exploring the stories of Aimee McQueen, a professional actress studying at NIDA, and Marcus Nguyen, a Uni student who wants to be a teacher.
While for Aimee meditation is an essential part of her acting training which aids with getting into character and returning to her true self, for Marcus lifting at the gym has helped him regain a sense of mental clarity and confidence when life just seems too much to handle.
We will also be interviewing other young people about what they think about mindfulness, which may be shaped by media biases or its Buddhist origins.
Mental health is about feelings and identity, which are the centra themes of this documentary.
Hopefully the final product will make you feel a sense of catharsis and grounding, like how you'd feel after a mindfulness therapy session.