Working Like Crazy

Collaborateurs : Basen, Gwynne | Bochner, Sally | Sky, Laura | Symansky, Adam | Office national du film du Canada | Sky Works Charitable Foundation (Toronto)

Business people -- Canada.Handicapped-owned business enterprises -- Canada.People with mental disabilities -- Employment -- Canada.People with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Canada.Industry and Commerce -- Business.Industry and Commerce -- Portraits.Industry and Commerce -- Trade and Commerce.People with disabilities -- People with Mental Illness or Intellectual Disabilities.People with disabilities -- Portraits.People with disabilities -- Working Life.Documentary films.Afficher 6 supplémentaires

Working Like Crazy is a fresh look at the struggles and victories of some former mental health patients who work in businesses owned and run by other psychiatric survivors. Labelled « unemployable, » they have given themselves a safe space among peers. A place where they can earn an income and rebuild their lives. Laurie spent years in psychiatric isolation and now runs a courier business; Diana has transformed rage and family violence into work for the Ontario Council of Alternative Businesses; since Graham has a job at Fresh Start Cleaning, his plan is « to get back to being a man »; now that Susan works as a courier, she can afford to care for her pets–and the neighbourhood kids don’t think she’s so crazy anymore. Illuminating the tears and laughter, the isolation and friendship, the rejection and acceptance, these and other stories reveal a rare glimpse of this complex community. Working Like Crazy is about alternatives to conventional community mental health and economic development. It portrays work as a human process that rebuilds people’s connections with each other. In the end, this is a film about hope.

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