AGE OF ANXIETY (2012)

An Associated Producers
60 mins • CBC Doc Zone

CREDITS:

Written and Directed by SCOTT HARPER
Produced by RIC ESTHER BIENSTOCK
Executive Producer SIMCHA JACOBOVICI
Editor ENZO ANILE
Director of Photography CHRISTOPHER MCKAY
Original Music by JOHN ROWLEY
Story Consultant PATRICIA PEARSON
Associate Producer/Researcher POLLY WELLS
Visual Researcher TANYA FLEET

Inspired by Patricia Pearson’s book “A Brief History of Anxiety…Yours and Mine”

THE AGE OF ANXIETY is a film that delves into a crisis in motion – according to the World Health Organization, disorders related to dread are the most prevalent mental illnesses on the globe at the moment. 

Is this a disease of modernity?  Or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves?  THE AGE OF ANXIETY explores these questions, while also investigating the role that pharmaceutical companies and even the psychiatric profession play in this phenomenon.  Is our anxiety fuelling an industry that in turn is profiting from and exploiting our dread in a vicious and self-perpetuating cycle?  

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AWARD HIGHLIGHTS: 

Banff Rockie Award for Best Social and Humanitarian Program
Silver Screen Award, US International Film and Video Festival
Nomination, Golden Sheaf Awards, Documentary Science/Medicine, Technology, Yorkton Film Festival

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