One of the key issues that the 2021 Paris International Film Festival is keen to highlight is that of Mental Health – and one of the films selected for the Festival is THE IN-BETWEEN.
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Directed by and co-starring Mindy Bledsoe from a script co-written with Rob Senska and co-star Jennifer Stone, THE IN-BETWEEN focuses on two women setting out on a road trip with different missions. Mads (Stone) needs to renew her driver’s license in South Dakota, whilst Junior (Bledsoe) needs to head to Portland, Oregon in a quest for her dead sister.
With both women battling medical issues that cause conflict and friction along the way, they are determined never to let their problems define their identities. However, Mads has a secret she keeps from Junior, which could become out in the open….
Conceived out of frustration by Bledsoe as a first feature film and shot in fourteen days across four and a half thousand miles of the American mainland, THE IN-BETWEEN attempts to deal with the problems faced when you have a seemingly invisible illness within.
ABOVE: THE IN-BETWEEN director Mindy Bledsoe
Mental Health is only one element that is being analysed during the Festival, which will cover all manner of film-making and creative concerns, as well as offer an outlet and voice to those who are to express their own concerns about the current state of film-making and production issues that are continuing to affect everyone who wishes to make in-roads into the business for success and beyond.
There will be opportunities to network virtually with fellow creatives and there are more exciting announcements imminent about panels and the Script Competition which is being overseen by the incredibly talented film-makers Cheryl Neve and Melissa Hurry, who are keen to throw their weight behind the progress that everyone at the Festival is curating and cultivating to enforce and enhance change in artistic and cinematic expression.
Film And TV Now, as an Official Partner amongst others like Filmocracy and Zeiss, is proud to promote the Festival in all its’ good intention and continues to support independent films and film-makers during this ongoing and uncertain time in the media.
