Georgia filmmaker releases short film about mental health

Pamela Perrine has been building short movies due to the fact she moved to Watkinsville about 6 decades ago, and now her most recent energy is obtainable for public viewing on YouTube.

“The Journeyman,” which Perrine directed and wrote, was beforehand screened at 4 film festivals.

A single of the reasons she desires the shorter film readily available now is simply because May perhaps is nationwide Mental Overall health Recognition Month.

The film “deals with childhood trauma and not remaining believed, which is 1 of the challenges in mental overall health — how people are not considered and how they are misdiagnosed,” she mentioned.

“The Journeyman” stars Jay Mohr, who has been an actor due to the fact 1992 and experienced roles in flicks this sort of as “Jerry Maguire” and the tv collection “The Cleaning Woman.”

“I realized Jay Mohr and I preferred to benefit from his wonderful performing expertise,” Perrine stated.

The 11 1/2-minute film was reviewed in Indie Shorts Journal:

“Pamela Perrine’s The Journeyman is a layered social drama that brings forward the conversations on psychological health and fitness, societal rehabilitation and childhood traumas in a limited, twin narrative. But, if you thought the film can be compartmentalized into a single of the numerous tales working with psychological health and fitness, you couldn’t be additional improper. At the coronary heart of it, The Journeyman is about appreciate, compassion and possibly even a silent message sent out to all people whose voices are in no way heard,” the reviewer explained.

“All of my movies are typically about ethical dilemmas and loved ones drama. I included mental wellness into this a single because I feel like that it is important — because it’s so neglected,” Perrine said.

The film premiered in Hollywood at the Chinese Movie Competition, then was approved into the Chelsea Movie Festival in New York, the Vail Film Festival in Colorado and the Portland Movie Competition, the latter which screens movies from close to the planet.

Also available on YouTube is a shorter film that Perrine shot in Watkinsville in 2018 referred to as “Angels in Rocket Industry.” Many of the scenes had been filmed on the real Rocket Industry in downtown.

Perrine, at first from the Macon space, commenced an acting occupation in 1991 and lived in California and New York prior to her move to Watkinsville. She designs to immediate a complete-duration element film.

Another limited movie she directed and had an acting position was unveiled in 2020.

“Lunch Hour with the President,” she explained, is her favourite limited film. It was recognized into an Academy Award-qualifying movie pageant and was perfectly obtained.

“It’s seriously potent,” she mentioned.

“In the end it alludes to Abraham Zapruder, who filmed the JFK assassination,” the director stated.