{"id":6241,"date":"2016-05-10T19:37:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2016-05-12T04:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T04:25:15","slug":"islands-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/islands-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Islands in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new indie feature, <em>A Light Beneath Their Feet<\/em>, focuses a warm, bright beam on mental illness and a family struggling for balance. By\u00a0Pauline Rogers. All Photos\u00a0courtesy of Emerging Pictures.<\/p>\n<p><em>Responsibility<\/em>. It\u2019s one of the weightiest words in the English language \u2013 especially when it is tied to family relationships. How much of one\u2019s own life do you give up when you feel responsible for the life of someone you love? In most family dynamics, a child breaking away from parental influence or a parent letting go and encouraging a child to move on is a struggle \u2013 but a healthy one.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the parent or child is suffering from a mental illness such as bipolar disorder? What if you grew up inculcated with the responsibility of being a somewhat stabilizing force? Do you give up your own life to \u201ctake care of\u201d the loved one who is suffering? Or, do you override that overwhelming sense of responsibility and break free to take responsibility for your own life?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to producer Jeffrey Loeb, director Valerie Weiss, cinematographer Jeffrey Waldron and actors Taryn Manning (<em>Orange Is the New Black<\/em>) and Madison Davenport (<em>Noah<\/em>,<em> From Dusk Till Dawn<\/em>,<em> Sisters<\/em>), along with a balanced and deeply moving script from Moira McMahon Leeper, that struggle has been brought to the surface in a new indie feature, <em>A Light Beneath Their Feet<\/em>, opening in limited release on May 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_1_May16.jpg\" alt=\"Web-Depth-of-Field_1_May16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_1_May16.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_1_May16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_1_May16-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cManning plays a young mother with bipolar disorder wrestling with the looming departure of her daughter, the one force of stability in her life,\u201d Loeb explains. \u201cDavenport is a daughter struggling with the decision of whether to stay local for college, where she can remain the rock in her mother\u2019s life, or to detach and go to her dream school across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s goal \u2013 as director Weiss describes \u2013 was to provide comfort and support for both the person struggling with mental illness and their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movie is universal beyond mental illness, and anytime there is an imbalance in a relationship, there is a stress we often don\u2019t know how to alleviate,\u201d Weiss offers. \u201cA new struggle surrounds the question of whether one should leave, but also, is it even okay to leave? There are feelings of guilt, obligation, and loyalty. We wanted to make a movie where this dynamic is sensitively explored so both parties in the relationship would have a new understanding of the other and allow more space. I didn\u2019t want anyone vilified because of his or her struggle, but rather I wanted to make a movie that created empathy for both people. Finding space and boundaries within any relationship is 90 percent of the struggle, so this movie is all about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loeb adds, \u201cso often in films, the portrayal of mentally ill characters are overblown and played to be sensational. For us it was imperative that Taryn Manning\u2019s performance as Gloria be subtle, nuanced, and, most importantly, authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_2_May16.jpg\" alt=\"Web-Depth-of-Field_2_May16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_2_May16.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_2_May16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_2_May16-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The team worked with psychiatric experts<\/strong> as well as people living with bipolar disorder. They studied memoirs and books on the subject, to understand not only how it impacts a person\u2019s inner thoughts, but also how it manifests in the physical.<\/p>\n<p>Key to exploring both the inner and outer turmoil of the two main characters was cinematographer Waldron\u2019s visual approach. \u201cIt is a film first, and it is also a tool for mental health awareness and discussion,\u201d he says excitedly. \u201cThe hope is that this film reaches people on an emotional level as a story, and that it gets them thinking and talking about mental health in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waldron says the film\u2019s look is soft and natural. \u201cBut there is a bit of a tonal balancing act at work,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe shot in Evanston, Illinois, the setting of many of the John Hughes high school classics, and there was some fun in asking what a modern incarnation of that might look like for Beth and her high school relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeth\u2019s home life with Gloria grows progressively more manic as the film goes on, and we begin to introduce more chaotic elements,\u201d he continues. \u201cFlares, giant colorful bokeh, foreground blurs, the compression of longer lenses. These two worlds collide in the story, so our challenge was to drift between the two in a way that is felt, but hopefully subtle enough to not be distracting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_3_May16.jpg\" alt=\"Web-Depth-of-Field_3_May16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_3_May16.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_3_May16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_3_May16-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because of Weiss\u2019s relationship with Bob Harvey, Alisa Shamosh and the people at Panavision, Woodland Hills (the third time they have donated the use of equipment for one of Weiss\u2019s issue-oriented projects), Waldron was able to shoot with a variety of vintage Panavision spherical primes \u2013 Super Speed Z line, a 1980\u2019s Zeiss\/Panavision hybrid and several Ultra Speed Primes, including a 150-mm lens, all on a Panavised RED EPIC.<\/p>\n<p>Each choice solidified the intensity of the story \u2013 and supported the issue they were gently laying bare. \u201cThere is a scene where Beth comes home and finds her mother on the floor, hours into a manic episode,\u201d Waldron continues. \u201cThe lights are off, the furniture is rearranged \u2013 and Beth joins her on the floor. There\u2019s this moment of peace in the chaos for Gloria with Beth at her side, but Beth feels totally trapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were careful about slowly introducing more color in the film as Gloria\u2019s mania worsens. In the scene, they are framed (with the camera looking down on them) against a very colorful carpet. It\u2019s a bit understated because the whole scene is filtered through an ambient streetlight. These choices are implemented subtly, but when they work, they help a scene feel right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_4_May16.jpg\" alt=\"Web-Depth-of-Field_4_May16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_4_May16.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_4_May16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_4_May16-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Linea Johnson, co-author (with mother Cinda) of <em>Perfect Chaos<\/em>, a memoir about a mother and daughter dealing with the daughter\u2019s bipolar disorder that was referenced by Weiss and Loeb, describes <em>A Light Beneath Their Feet <\/em>as \u201cbeautiful,\u201d adding, that, \u201cat times it was difficult to watch because it was so accurate. I saw, for the first time, what my mania looked like from the outside, and it was very intense. It was deeply touching to know they took into account real lives to make this film. I feel that the love and honoring of all those struggling really shows through, and that at no point, like so many other movies, did I feel like they were using mental illness to exploit its irresistible strangeness and scariness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The groundswell behind the film is tangible and impactful. <\/strong>In every city <em>A Light Beneath Their Feet <\/em>has screened, the production has received support from organizations that focus on mental health, including local chapters of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mental Health America, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and Active Minds. It was the Closing Night Film at the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival in Toronto, and has played in roughly 25 festivals, including the Chicago International Film Festival; the Mill Valley Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award; the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival; the Vimeo Stubbornly Independent Award at the Tallgrass Film Festival; the Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature Award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists at the Whistler Film Festival; and the Rising Star Award for Madison Davenport at the Vail Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Festival programmers say the movie is making a difference.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_5_May16.jpg\" alt=\"Web-Depth-of-Field_5_May16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_5_May16.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_5_May16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_5_May16-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor nearly twenty-five years now, the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival has fought the battle against stigma in mental illness, addiction and recovery issues by showcasing films \u2013 features, shorts, documentary, experimental and animation \u2013 designed to stimulate discussion between audiences, filmmakers, health care professionals and people who have lived with the experience,\u201d describes Geoff Pevere, the festival\u2019s programmer. \u201cWe chose <em>A Light Beneath Their Feet<\/em> to close the 23rd edition of the festival last year because it so powerfully served the purpose of generating feedback from general audiences on the issue of living with loved ones with bipolar disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pevere says the film provides a frank account of what it\u2019s like to defer goals and dreams in life in order to care for someone with a mental health issue. \u201cIt\u2019s that rare movie about mental illness that speaks a kind of truth for those who have lived through it,\u201d he adds, \u201cwhile also offering a compassionately enlightening framework for those who haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Close\u2019s organization, Bring Change 2 Mind (bringchange2mind.org), has tapped into its national network of experts and advocates, who have attended panels and Q&amp;A discussions at select film festivals and screenings of <em>A Light Beneath Their Feet<\/em>. \u201c[The film] is really beautiful and most endearing,\u201d says Bring Change 2 Mind\u2019s Executive Director, Pamela Harrington. \u201cIt was heart-wrenching and beautiful in its authenticity, all without producing stigma against mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_6_May16.jpg\" alt=\"Web-Depth-of-Field_6_May16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_6_May16.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_6_May16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icgmagazine.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Web-Depth-of-Field_6_May16-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Loeb says it\u2019s amazing \u201chow many people come up to tell us that this film is their life story. Or a family member\u2019s or friend\u2019s life story. Sometimes they are identifying with the daughter, sometimes with the mother. It really is a much more common experience than is generally discussed in public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe film does a great job at facilitating a discussion about the issues and helping people realize they are not alone,\u201d he concludes. \u201cHopefully it can help alleviate the stigma surrounding mental illness that prevents people from seeking diagnosis and treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trailer and list of cities and theaters available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wannawatch.it\/a-light-beneath-their-feet\">https:\/\/www.wannawatch.it\/a-light-beneath-their-feet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new indie feature, A Light Beneath Their Feet, focuses a warm, bright beam on mental illness and a family struggling for balance. By\u00a0Pauline Rogers. All Photos\u00a0courtesy of Emerging Pictures. Responsibility. 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