Synopsis

Through intimate stories of patients, families, and medical providers, BEDLAM immerses us in America’s national crisis surrounding care of people with severe mental illness. Filmed over five years, it brings us inside one of the nation’s busiest psychiatric emergency rooms, into jails where psychiatric patients are warehoused, and to the homes – and homeless encampments – of members of our communities with mental illness. The story is told in part by director Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD, a psychiatrist, filmmaker, and brother of a person with schizophrenia. 2021 duPont-Columbia Award finalist.

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