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A Summer in the Cage has been Nominated for a 2008
PRISM Award for Bipolar Disorder Depiction
Click
Here to Purchase a DVD of A Summer in the Cage
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.
A Summer in the Cage
a
feature-length documentary
Sundance Channel
Now airing on Cablevision Video-on-Demand
USA Cable Television Premiere
October
22, 2007 - Monday - 9 PM
DocDay Premiere - check local TV listings
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Listen
to WNYC's Leonard Lopate Radio Interview with Ben Selkow
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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
"…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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