Our Storytelling Studio
Our Studio offers a platform for creators, producers and production companies to highlight mental health and wellbeing related topics and storylines.
We support independent and aspiring film makers tell their stories by shedding light on their unique productions, supporting depictions & portrayals of mental health, signposting services & information, helping drive funding and providing wrap around mental health related activation opportunities.
Check out the latest productions we are supporting…
Short Film ‘Ashes of a Dying Ember’
HFEH Mind and Munchie Lunchie Productions, an Ealing based production company whose focus is to change the world positively via their art, partnered for the production of Short Film ‘Ashes of a Dying Ember’.
The Plot
Hadi Al-Amaery, a Syrian refugee in London has taken to the woods after being the victim of a corner shop robbery gone wrong. There, under a blanket of stars and in the shadow of a warming fire he faces his past self who experienced the war back in Syria and the persona of the refugee he consequently became after his arrival. The dying embers of Hadi Al-Amaery are newly stoked by the raging fire in his heart.
Through all the trauma and the grief that reignites his anger at the world and his place in it, he still wishes to heal; to overcome; to balance the scales of his existence, thus he compartmentalises his experiences and reconstructs himself – A clean burn.
Now What…?
Now entering September and ready to enter the production phase, HFEH Mind will now support efforts to get this short into production and into film festivals. In tandem, both companies will help raise awareness about mental health and drive donations to Ashes of a Dying Ember’s GoFundMe page.
HFEH Mind and Munchie Lunchie Productions aim to complete production and premier the short at major film festivals across the UK, Europe, USA, and the Middle East.
Alongside the production and festival schedule, they will co-host multiple workshops and activations to support the films debut and drive the mental health conversation, all while empowering refugees to learn and discover new industries and develop mental health wellbeing.
The film’s cast & crew will be volunteering with HFEH MIND on their current and future campaigns, as well as participating in the Ealing Half Marathon raising vital funds for mental health in the tri-borough.
All profits generated from the production will be donated to HFEH Mind by Munchie Lunchie Productions LTD to continue their work in the community.
Please support this Short by Donating Here
If you are a refugee or asylum seeker over the age of 18, with basic to moderate English language skills, sign up for our Film Workshops by contacting your case worker or by emailing [email protected]
