Upcoming screenings

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

2011 New York City International Survivors of Suicide Day Pre-screening
UNSPEAKABLE
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 6:30 pm
doors open at 6 pm
Beth Israel Podell Auditorium
Bernstein Pavilion, 1-9 Nathan D. Perlman Place, 1st floor
between 15th and 16th Streets and between First and Second Avenues.
To get there from First Avenue, walk west on 16th Street. When 16th Street runs into Stuyvesant Square Park, you are on Nathan Perlman Place. Make a left, the entrance is between 16th Street and 15th Street. It is the only building on the block.


2011 New York City International Survivors of Suicide Day
Film clip from UNSPEAKABLE and conversation with
filmmaker Sally Heckel
Saturday November 19, 2011
11:00 - 11:45 am
The New York State Psychiatric Institute Auditorium
1051 Riverside Drive, between 165th and 169th Street.

NYC International Survivors of Suicide Day Schedule

10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Registration – Lobby of Auditorium

11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Welcome - Conversation with filmmaker Sally HeckelAuditorium

11:45 – 12:45 p.m. Lunch – Lunch Room and Conference Room

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. AFSP National Broadcast – Auditorium

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Breakout Groups – 2nd Floor

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Healing Ceremony and Goodbyes – Carla Fine- Auditorium

Previous screenings

New York State Psychological Association 74th Annual Convention
Unspeakable: Film Viewing and Discussion
New York, NY, June 2010

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 57th Annual Meeting
Uspeakable: Film Screening and Discussion about Parental Depression and Suicide and Its Impact on Teenage and Young Adult Development
New York, NY, October 2010

Out of the Darkness Community Walk
Erie, PA, September, 2010

American Psychiatric Association 163rd Annual Meeting
Voicing Unspeakable: Reflections On, and Discussion About, Overcoming Loss by Suicide
New Orleans, LA, May, 2010

American Association of Suicidology 43rd Annual Conference
Viewing Unspeakable: A documentary perspective on suicide and the family - 90-Minute Workshop
Orlando, FL, April, 2010

St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD, December 8, 2009

Crandell Public Library Film & Video Festival
Downstate Film Forum
Brooklyn, NY, September 11, 2009

SOLD OUT in NYC!
Cinewomen on Screen - a NYWIFT series (New York Women in Film & TV) May 27, 2009
Unspeakable invited to Syria
Unspeakable was shown in Damascus, Syria, as an Official Selection of DOX BOX 09, a festival of creative documentary films.
“We show films from around the world that focus on the human experience creatively and with cinematographic standards.” - DOX BOX http://www.dox-box.org/site/index.php?page=show&ex=2&dir=docs&ex=2&ser=1〈=2&cat=76

Unspeakable in the news
The suicide rate among doctors is twice the rate of other professions. Unspeakable tells the family's side of a doctor's suicide.
Interview with Sally Heckel, maker of Unspeakable, and Dr. Eric Caine, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, about suicide among physicians on R News:

http://www.rnews.com/?ArID=360991
Story in Newsweek by David Noonan about high incidence of suicide among physicians:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/132887
Unspeakable wins
Unspeakable won a Grand Jury Award - The American Falls Award for Best Western New York Film - at the 2008 Buffalo Niagara Film Festival.
Article about Sally Heckel in The Brighton Pittsford Post:
http://www.mpnnow.com/towns/brighton/x170771724