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Ben was selected as a Fellow for The Carter Center’s 2010-2011 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism for his documentary Buried Above Ground. The fellowship program is part of the Carter Center's Mental Health Program, which works around the world to reduce stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses and to decrease incorrect and stereotypical information. The program also seeks to increase access to mental health services and inform mental health public policy.
With his project Buried Above Ground, Ben was selected to participate in The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma’s 2010 conference entitled “When Veterans Come Home: A Workshop for Working Journalists” at The Carter Center in Atlanta, GA. The workshop featured a wide range of leading mental health and policy experts, award-winning journalists and veterans’ advocates, in addition to opening speaker Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is dedicated to informed, effective and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy.
In the fall of 2009, A Summer in the Cage was honored with a 2009 Honorable Mention at the SAMSHA Voice Awards at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA.
Ben Selkow and A Summer in the Cage were featured on the cover of Wesleyan University’s alumni magazine in an article entitled “Focus on the Truth” by Katherine Jamieson.
A Summer in the Cage won the 2009 Mental Health America Media Award in the Documentary Category
A Summer in the Cage has been Nominated for a 2008
PRISM Award for Bipolar Disorder Depiction
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Ben Selkow recently was honored as one of 50 Non-Fiction
Filmmakers at the Current TV/Fader Films Symposium "A Day
of Dialogue and the Future of Non-Fiction Film" on November
6, 2007 featuring keynote speaker former Vice President
Nobel Prize honoree, Academy Award winner and Current TV
founder Al Gore, as well as luminary filmmakers Barbara
Kopple, Al Maysles, Alex Gibney, and Marc Levin.
Read more about the event at The
Fader and Variety.
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Praise for A Summer in the Cage
"Ben Selkow's film is probably the world's first guy movie
about manic depression. It is also an exceptional and deeply
humanizing look at bipolar disorder...A Summer in the Cage captures the illness, not as it is treated, but as it is
lived...The result is a haunting film about the power and
the limits of a friendship to save a good man from his inner
demons"
-Tim
Dickinson
Rolling Stone
"I highly recommend A Summer in the Cage. It is an extraordinary film: powerful, affecting and honest."
-Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison
Professor of Psychiatry, John Hopkins University
Author of An Unquiet Mind
"...quite frankly, one of the most powerful documentaries
that I have seen. I do not know of any other filmmaker who
has captured the frantic highs of mania, the devastation
of depression and roller coaster of ordinary life that a
person with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder experiences."
-Pete
Earley, Journalist and Author
CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health
Madness
"This beautifully shot, six-year odyssey is profound and
sincere...the result is a haunting and riveting personal tale
of a descent into mental illness."
-Sam
Mettler, Creator and Executive Producer
A&E's INTERVENTION
"The
filmmakers brilliantly and accurately portray the insidiousness
of this invisible illness. The pain of the illness in the
film brought me back to a place I never wanted to return.
But it's a place that people need to see to better understand
this illness which is still so stigmatized."
-Andy
Behrman, Bipolar Patient and Author
ELECTROBOY: A Memoir of Mania
"A Summer in the Cage is a thought-provoking peep into a
world that is way too undiscovered. This is an important
film."
-Jonathan
Caouette, Filmmaker
TARNATION
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