Saltwater Psalms is a six-minute visual poem built from fragments of the natural world. Instead of a linear story, the film moves through a living collage of water, shoreline, foliage, animals, food, and sunlight. Each image becomes its own reminder that the body knows how to come home when it is given space to breathe.

The work reflects a season of emotional exhaustion and rebuilding. The film does not chase a narrative arc. It rests inside stillness, repetition, and the softness of everyday beauty. The viewer is invited to witness what healing looks like when it is not performed. Quiet waves. Moving shadows. A fruit sliced open. Wings in flight. The warmth of the sun on the skin.

Through these simple elements, the film becomes a gentle act of self-reclamation. It holds the idea that renewal is not always grand or spoken. Sometimes it is found in the world as it already is, waiting for you to pause long enough to see it.

A woman goes on a journey, discovering pieces throughout various abstract worlds that help her gain abilities, fostering a clearer sense of self and confidence. These abstract objects show her how to move forward through unclear and uncertain times. She perseveres, ultimately emerging stronger and with a renewed sense of clarity.

How do we go on living when physical and emotional pain block our path forward? Marble Me Free is an evocative animated journey through a "dark night of the soul," exploring resilience, healing, and the power of creative expression.

Narrated by Starlit Swan, author of the featured poem "The Marble Block," the film draws from her experience living with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)—a severely debilitating condition often referred to as the "suicide disease."

The project began when Starlit attended an online Arts & Healing Resiliency Center workshop sponsored by Dr. Kaufman and facilitated by John Fox of the Institute for Poetic Medicine. A few days later, Starlit and Dr Kaufman met again. When Dr. Kaufman asked how Starlit coped with such overwhelming pain, Starlit shared "The Marble Block." Inspired by the poem's transformative power, Dr. Kaufman envisioned it as a healing animation and invited animator Lucía Martínez Rojas to bring the vision to life—giving birth to Marble Me Free.

After becoming a mental health service user, a former social worker reflects on the profession from both sides of the helping relationship. Through personal narration and original music, the film reveals the emotional labor, dedication, and human connections that exist behind workloads, case numbers, and professional roles.

An artist's journey into his own neurodiversity and the impact drawing has on his mental well being.

This documentary delves into the purpose behind the creation of Palate, a coffee shop built to support the fight against human trafficking, and the community impact that has grown from its mission. Through the story of its founder, a survivor whose vision sparked the shop’s creation, the film reveals how Palate grew from a single mission into a wider community movement centered on hope, empowerment, and survivor‑led healing. By exploring the mission behind the shop, the impact it has had on the community, and the ways its influence extends far beyond its doors, the documentary highlights how meaningful change can begin with one person’s story and the courage to reclaim it.

What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About TRAUMA is a love letter to someone coming to terms with the symptoms of Complex PTSD, made by someone with a lived experience of CPTSD. It is a personal and deeply subjective short film that encourages hope, nature connectivity and gives grammar to a condition that is both new and little understood.

This film is a continuation of work by the filmmaker to engage with their own mental health journey through producing work that engages deeply with nature. In this way the cinematography becomes a therapeutic practice.

The aim of the filmmaker is that the film raises awareness of CPTSD, helps give people struggling with symptoms a voice, and ultimately provokes conversations and hopefulness about this difficult subject.

Art therapist Jamie Silvestri reflects on the work and impact of her organization ArtVan, which has brought mobile art therapy to low-income communities in rural Maine for over twenty years. By guiding individuals to explore and use materials to create whatever comes from the heart, Jamie expresses how art can transform, heal parts of ourselves nothing else can reach, and open worlds of understanding—a truth she knows from her own experience with trauma.

Triggered by a livestream of South Korea at a graduation party, Kate, a Korean American adoptee, embarks on an emotional journey to reconcile longing for a place she cannot remember with the life she has built.

Raina is known as the "strong one" the one who helps everyone until she can no longer carry it all, when it gets too heavy. She is force to address her issues, and the generational dysfunction she learned by example to finally choosing herself.

Two years after fleeing an abusive partner, Blair struggles to feel whole again. Desperation drives her into a Muay Thai gym, where owners Camilla and Jackson Kingsley welcome her with warmth in stark contrast to the gymХs ferocity. Though the charged, male-dominated environment stirs old trauma, she keeps returning, slowly gaining strength, trust, and a sense of belonging. Bonds with Camilla and Jackson reshape her view of othersСbut BlairХs hardest battle lies deeper. When Jackson suggests sheХs ready for a fight, the idea feels impossible. Yet on fight night, Blair discovers her real opponent wasn't what she expected at all.

Suicide has been silently & disproportionately affecting Black Children for years. Through interviews with Educators,Elected Officials, Clinicians, Suicide-Bereaved Families and first hand accounts of Survivors of
youth suicide, Butterflies Jump Too spreads awareness of racial
disparity in Mental Healthcare.

Moving Forward is a heartfelt, inspiring film about reclaiming one's inner light and finding strength not in perfection, but in progress