Don't Give Up Directed by Diane Leslie Kaufman won the Best Music Video Award
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About the Director: Diane Leslie Kaufman
Here I am at the 2019 NAMI walk feeling happy and proud. I am holding a poem poster and wearing a poem t-shirt. I wrote these poems and they're about mental health and the importance of community, I am a poet, artist, child psychiatrist, suicide attempt survivor, suicide loss survivor, and I have Bipolar II Disorder. I'm the founder-director of the Arts & Healing Resiliency Center at Mind Matters PC in Hillsboro, Oregon. Don't Give Up began as a poem I wrote in response to hearing the despair and suicidality expressed by my youth patients. I could hear a song in the poem. With my creative collaborators, poem became song, animated video, and public service announcement. Such is the power of the expressive arts.
Don't Give Up
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