Pretty Strong (Short Film) 2016

Mental Health is not a choice. Its a war and it can kill.\r
Released 16.05.2016\r
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Producer/Director/Writer/Editor: Cody Barrett\r
DOP: Radosvet Nikolov\r
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The age at which eating disorders develop among both boys and girls is getting alarmingly younger we hear about an increasing number of cases where children as young as five being treated for eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and other a-typical eating disorders. Eating disorders are difficult, if not impossible to be understood by someone on the outside, leaving those on the inside isolated from loved ones. Sufferers turn to their eating disorder for comfort and friendship. \r
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Pretty Strong is a short dystopia thriller about two lifelong friends who enrol at a new school, although this is not a conventional school. As one excels the other struggles to come to terms with the f that graduating does not mean you leave with a diploma, or even leave at all. The end of the film comes with a dramatic twist that will hit home hard to the films audience about just how brutal and all encompassing a sufferers world is, despite it going virtually unnoticed by others. It also offers a realisation for people trapped in this world themselves that their eating disorder is not their friend but the enemy, and escaping it is the only way to really be happy. The films overall message although rather dark, is positive one that recovery is possible if you fight.