Mental Illness Awareness Week and NAMI

Help CANVAS Fight Stigma This Week
Mental illness-themed movie needs your help—no matter where you live


View the TrailerJust in time for Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 7-13), the movie CANVAS is being released in Chicago and New York on Friday, to be followed by three other cities next week. If Friday and Saturday ticket sales run high in these five cities, the release may expand to 200 cities nationwide.

Starring Emmy Award-winner Joe Pantoliano and Academy Award-winner Marcia Gay Harden, CANVAS is the story of a family's struggle with schizophrenia. It educates as well as entertains. It will build awareness about mental illness and strike a blow against stigma--but only if enough people see it. In order for the movie to reach a nationwide audience, please take action to help:
Spread the word! Please forward this email now with a personal message to family and friends in the cities below—and friends elsewhere.

Buy tickets on-line early each week. You don't even have to live in the opening cities. Tickets make great gifts or donations. Use the links below to purchase tickets online.

If you live in one of the five cities, go see the movie on a Friday or Saturday. Take a friend. Go in a group. Hold a discussion afterwards.
Starting October 12
In Chicago, AMC Loews 600 North Michigan 9, 600 N. Michigan Ave. 60611
In New York, Regal Union Square Stadium 14, 850 Broadway, 10003
Starting October 19
In Los Angeles, Laemmie Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Boulevard, 90046
In Phoenix, Harkins Shea 14, 7354 E. Shea Blvd, (Scottsdale) 85260
In Fort Lauderdale, check local listings as the date approaches.
Remember to: Buy tickets early Forward this message Go see the movie
CANVAS director Joe Greco, and stars Devon Gearhart and Joe Pantoliano take questions from NAMI members after a screening at the 2007 NAMI Convention in San Diego; actress Marcia Gay Harden as Mary Marino in the film.

If you think there is just a stigma with PTSD, it's not. While PTSD comes from trauma and an outside source, part of removing the stigma of it is to educate people on all forms of mental illness. We forget the brain is another organ that needs medical treatment.