Replace on Postpartum Melancholy Documentary:
Extra Than Blue
Illuminating the Faces and Voices of Postpartum Melancholy throughout America
In the summertime of 2022, we introduced our plans to maneuver ahead with the manufacturing of a documentary on postpartum despair, Extra Than Blue. A yr later, we’re nicely into manufacturing of this necessary movie. In partnership with Director Julia Marchesi and manufacturing firm Ark Media (Barak Goodman, Producer), Drs. Lee S. Cohen (Govt Producer and Producer) and Allison Baker (Producer) have been filming the tales of ladies and people near them (pals, companions, colleagues) as they navigate the varied facets of postpartum temper and nervousness issues. Appreciable floor is roofed from the various expertise of postpartum despair (PPD) to managing stigma, to dealing with the shifts in necessary relationships throughout being pregnant and the postpartum interval, to coping with the issues of getting entry, to these with experience in perinatal psychiatry. It’s our hope that Extra Than Blue will catalyze a brand new period of understanding of PPD and the variable challenges girls and households face having access to care. We’re indebted to the a whole bunch of brave moms, clinicians, and advocates from throughout the nation who responded to our first request to share tales reflecting their particular person and household journeys. Every narrative has performed a key function in shaping the trajectory of the movie, and we’re moved and impressed by the outpouring of help for the undertaking.
We hope many moms with lived expertise of PPD will be capable of determine with the tales captured within the documentary. To do that, we want to embrace the views of a various group of ladies. Whereas many interviews have been performed, we ask to your continued help in serving to us determine people who could also be keen to take part. We need to embrace two further girls who’re early on within the postpartum interval (underneath one yr) and recovering from postpartum despair. It was all the time our hope to seize birthing individuals from throughout America, and we’re significantly keen on connecting with postpartum girls from the South, Southwest and Western states with a give attention to girls of colour. When you or somebody you already know is just lately postpartum and keen on studying extra, please contact us by our curiosity type.
Along with the sharing of private particular person tales, an necessary part of the documentary might be highlighting the assets out there to moms in want of help and remedy throughout such a crucial level of their lives. Whether or not digital or in-person, help teams stay one of the helpful assets, and as such we’re grateful for the chance to characteristic the First Connections New Moms group primarily based in Massachusetts as a part of the film. We hope that capturing the candid dialogue of the struggles and joys of recent motherhood and the postpartum expertise will break down partitions of disgrace and isolation which many ladies describe as we reassure these individuals that they don’t seem to be alone.
The movie is anticipated to be accomplished in 2024. We very a lot stay up for sharing extra particulars with you within the months to come back.
Lee S. Cohen, M.D.
Director, Middle for Girls’s Psychological Well being, Mass Common Hospital
Govt Producer, Extra Than Blue
Allison Baker, M.D.
Producer, Extra Than Blue
Julia Marchesi
Director, Extra Than Blue
Barak Goodman
Senior Producer, Extra Than Blue
Eliza Mitnick
Affiliate Producer, Extra Than Blue
