14 MAY 2014

CA Voices #14: Lucy Winer

By Giselle Harrington - (Former) Development Associate

At this year's 10th Annual NYC Mental Health Film Festival we are excited to be hosting filmmaker Lucy Winer, creator of Kings Park: Stories of an American Mental Institution. Lucy was committed to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the 1960s. Through her documentary, she confronts the intense emotions she has carried since, and embarks on a journey to find answers. She talked with me about what it was like to make the film and how it changed from being a personal story to a story about the hospital itself.