Moving Minds - Building Resilience for Wellbeing

Through using the youth made short films made as part of The Moving Minds 2 Filmmaking project, this resource equips young people aged 11-19 and their educators to confidently:

• Express ideas about mental health using the medium of film.
• Engage with film and filmmaking with increased confidence
in order to articulate ideas about what mental health means to them.
• Raise self-esteem by participating in engaging personal reflective activities in class or at home.
• Work towards their own mental health goals in a personalised Mental Wellbeing Strategies Toolkit.
• Be guided by peers and filmmakers alike to make their own Moving Minds 2: Building Resilience for Wellbeing short film, no matter their skill level or equipment.

Into Film believes that youth-made films are uniquely useful for starting and supporting discussions about mental health, as they enable the viewer to see the subject through young people’s eyes.

It is our hope that youth-made films contribute to destigmatising mental ill health, as well as inspiring engagement with filmmaking as a means to articulate many of the hard to express ideas seen in many mental health conditions.