Docu Lovers Club: Discussing great documentaries
If you love documentaries and want to watch and discuss them, this is the club for you. We're into enjoyable and thought-provoking doc.films
Location
Online
About this event
ABOUT THE CLUB
If you love great documentaries and want to discuss them with others, we welcome you to our Club. We are a friendly, easy-going group who love to watch documentary films and talk about them. We strive to have engaging and intellectually stimulating discussions. We're here to learn, grow, broaden our horizons and connect with like-minded people.
Our Docu Lovers Club will run monthly, online. It's open to all and you're welcome to join our sessions even if you haven't seen the film of the month.
ABOUT THE EVENT
In April we're watching and discussing Troubled Minds: The Lithium Revolution, a 2004 documentary film directed by Dennis K. Smith. An Australian production from early 2000s, the film might not be most recent, but the topic it deals with is as topical today as it is important.
The film description:
In a disused hospital pantry in the 1940s, an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered an astonishing treatment for bi-polar disorder. It would revolutionise the way we think about mental illness and mark the beginning of psychopharmacology - using drugs to manage psychiatric conditions. This was inspired thinking at a time when Freudian psychoanalysis, electric shock and lobotomy were the dominant approaches and patients were often locked up in asylums. The breakthrough followed years of research and experimentation and it would take two more decades of struggle before lithium treatment was finally accepted - but Cade's successors persevered. Their work has meant a chance at stability for hundreds of thousands of people, and lithium remains the benchmark for bi-polar treatment today.
There's lots to discuss here, so see you on 28 April, Sunday, 9:00 am PDT / 12:00 am EDT / 5:00 pm BST / 6:00 pm CEDT. We're looking forward to connecting and exchanging our opinions, insights, experience and knowledge on the subject of the documentary and everything related. Join the discussion!
You can use this link to check your local time and add the event to your calendar: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240428T160000&p1=382&p2=tz_pt&p3=tz_et&p4=tz_bst&p5=tz_cest
Join us with your favorite beverage and bring a friend!
FILM PICKS OF 2024
January: Fantastic Fungi (2019, directed by Louie Schwartzberg)
February: Birthgap - Childless World (2023, directed by Steven J. Shaw)
https://www.birthgap.org/spaces/10215679/page
March: All That Breathes (2022, directed by Shaunak Sen)
https://www.allthatbreathes.com/
April: Troubled Minds: The Lithium Revolution (2004, directed by Dennis K. Smith)
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/troubledminds
https://shop.nfsa.gov.au/troubled-minds-the-lithium-revolution
May: The Truffle Hunters (2020, directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw)
https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/thetrufflehunters
We are open to hearing your book suggestions and ideas!
Stay in touch and keep reading great documentraries!
Make sure you check out the other two clubs we enjoy quite a lot - GEM Book Club: Growth, Empowerment and Meaningful Connections and Psychology Lovers Book Club.
All discussions and events are totally free and open to all. We appreciate any support and donations, as they help support the project and keep it open and free.