Series: Black Mental Health: Changing the Narrative

Series: Black Mental Health: Changing the Narrative

Black Mental Health: Changing the Narrative is a nine episode docu-series that explores why Black people may suffer from poor health outcomes as well as promotes strategies and resources that assist in improving their overall health and well-being. Black Mental Health: Changing the Narrative, aims to de-stigmatize mental health and increase positive birthing experiences, birth outcomes and healthier families in the Black community by providing a psychoeducational visual aide to empower action, community building and civic engagement. Focus is on social determinants of health throughout,

Producer and Director: Nakeya Fields
In Partnership with the Black Mental Task Force, the Therapeutic Play Foundation and Spekulor Creative
Executive Producer: Chris Gosch / Spekulor Creative
Editor: Mailyne K. Briggs / Kilam Media, Ian Porter
Sound: Chris Skellzo / 145 Productions

Watch the full series on this YouTube playlist.

Trailer edited by Ian Porter

This premiered as a feature at the Miracle Theater, Inglewood in 2023.

Mailyne K. Briggs

Mailyne K. Briggs

A Philippines born, Canadian raised filmmaker, writer, artist and entrepreneur. Mai centers stories about women-of-color, the immigrant experience, and being Filipinx in the diaspora while exploring themes of identity, belonging and home.