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West 47th Street Click here to view West 47th Street trailer in Real Video WIth over 100 community engagement screenings, West 47th Street is helping to change the way America looks at people with mental illness. Find out more! VISIT THE WEST 47th STREET PRESS ROOM (Click here) "'Must See' TV" -Newsweek "Editors' Choice." -TV Guide " Remarkable" - Washington Post "A work of remarkable passion and uncommon decency. Most amazing of all, "West 47th Street" has the power to be a life-altering cinema experience." - Tulsa World "Involving, insightful" -Variety Read "Live Chat" with producers Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples at The Washington Post.com West 47th Street outreach effort's success highlighted by Communications Initiative. (Click here for more.)

West 47th Street made its national TV premiere on the PBS series P.O.V. Visit the PBS/P.O.V. web site for a comprehensive look at the film, including special features and a "tell your story" section. Life on the streets of New York City for the poor and homeless is an unforgiving struggle. For those who also battle mental illness, it is marked by the additional pressures of fear, isolation and misunderstanding. West 47th Street is a new feature-length documentary film that reveals the human face of mental illness - and the faith and courage with which its victims fight to recover control of their lives. The award-winning documentary follows the lives of four people with serious mental illness, over three years. The film provides an unprecedented window on the lives of people who are often feared and ignored, seldom understood.Co-producers Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples enjoyed an extraordinary degree of access to their lives, and shot more than 350 hours of tape: off and on the street, in and out of hospitals and homeless shelters, healthy -- and psychotic. The resulting stories, both warm and dramatic, are about people who approach tremendous obstacles with humor, optimism and grace. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, West 47th Street represents a radical return to cinema verite, without interviews or narration. Set at Fountain House, a rehabilitation program for people with serious mental illness located in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. Winner of "Best Documentary" at 2002 Atlanta Film Festival and the "Audience Award" at DC Independent Film Festival, West 47th Street has sold out theatres across the U.S., and internationally from Vancouver to Dublin to South Korea. Purchase West 47th Street from LCM web store West 47th Street is now available for educational and community use with 28 page Discussion and Facilitation Guide (click here for more.)

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Crisis in Darfur, live from Second Life, with Mia Farrow and guests.   Bill Lichtenstein interview on Social Justice in the Global Village. JUVENILES IN CRISIS

Lichtenstein Creative Media is producing Juveniles in Crisis, an in-depth documentary examination of the social welfare of juveniles. This groundbreaking production examines the inextricably intertwined areas of the juvenile mental health, juvenile justice, education and the foster care systems. This timely broadcast holds the promise of offering a fresh perspective through its examination of how these critical issues influence each other, as well as proposing practical, integrated solutions. The series will highlight model programs that successfully address these four areas with an integrated approach. Juveniles in Crisis will be accompanied by a deep national community engagement campaign to expand the public knowledge, reach policymakers, and effectively channel the action needed to make the critically necessary changes in these acutely distressed systems.

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HEPATITIS C DOCUMENTARY Four million Americans have it, it's lethal (30,000 deaths per year in the U.S.), but because there are no symptoms for decades, two million people don't know they have it. LCM's latest documentary project takes on the Hepatitis C epidemic, as we follow the dramatic first-person accounts of those who are affected, as well as explore the efforts of public health officials to protect the nation's blood supply.

 

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IF I GET OUT ALIVE is an award-winning one-hour public radio documentary narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and child advocate Diane Keaton. The program, the result of a one-year investigation, exposes the systematic abuse and brutality faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. The program forms the basis for LCM's upcoming "Juveniles in Crisis" series, which focuses on the inextricably intertwined juvenile justice, juvenile mental health, education and foster care systems.

If I Get Out Alive features first-hand accounts from children currently behind bars, rehabilitated youths who survived the system, parents of young people who died in adult prisons, legal experts, policy makers and correction officials. The program also addresses the abysmal mental health conditions in prison and jails faced by young people (50 percent of whom, according to the latest research, are affected by a serious mental illness) as well as examining alternative sentencing programs that are successful in diverting young offenders from prison.

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VOICES OF AN ILLNESS is the landmark Peabody Award-winning documentary series on clinical depression, manic depression (bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia, the first to feature people who had recovered from serious mental illness, telling their own stories in their own words. Winner of 28 major broadcast and mental health journalism awards, the series was called "Remarkable" in a feature article in Time magazine.You can listen to a clip from the programs in Real Audio:

Patty Duke Manic Depression: Voices of an Illness

Jason Robards Schizophrenia: Voices of an Illness

Rod Steiger Depression: Voices of an Illness

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LICHTENSTEIN CREATIVE MEDIA is a Peabody Award-winning independent media production company working in film, TV and radio. LCMedia specializes in productions focusing on mental health, human rights and other social issues.

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