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SICK THE MOVIE - Mental Health in our Youth

SICK made history by being the first ever short film to be screened at the National Gallery.

The film looks at understanding the complex lifestyles of our Young People and how youth violence has an impact.

Mental health is on the increase with our youth, and we need to address this and start supporting them and learn to spot the signs.

The short film was produced with a group of young people, filming took place in the school half term.

  • Paul McKenzie
    Director
  • Paul McKenzie
    Producer
  • Ellis Witter
    Key Cast
    "Jayden"
    AMANI | Drama Short Film (2019)
  • Giovanni
    Key Cast
  • Temi Adesola
    Key Cast
  • Trey James
    Key Cast
  • Salim
    Key Cast
  • Armarni
    Key Cast
  • Jaigo
    Key Cast
  • Cornelius
    Key Cast
  • Shirley Jackson
    Marketing & Production
    Crippled Karma
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    real life, mental health, youth, london life, knife crime, street life, training, youth project, youth violence
  • Runtime:
    40 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Shirley A Jackson
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • NATIONAL GALLERY
    LONDON
    United Kingdom
    October 8, 2019
    NATIONAL GALLERY
    first ever screening of a short film at the National Gallery
Director Biography - Paul McKenzie

PAUL MCKENZIE is a professional Public Speaker, life coach/ NLP Master Practitioner, Standup Comedian. Three interesting and rewarding talents that have allowed him to produce changes in the lives of hundreds of clients over the last 15 years

Paul has over the years produced lots of documentary style projects and is now moving on the short films and will be releasing these over the next few months

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Director Statement

My work around preparing young people for the road ahead, has lead me into many different aspects of youth work. Currently I am working with several organisations that specifically deal with young people with special needs. This is proving to be a crucial part in grooming and abuse. With so many children displaying challenging behaviour in education, the result for many of them is exclusion or a specialist provision, this unfortunately has been instrumental in the schools to prison pipeline that we are seeing emerging amongst specific groups of young people