BEDLAM

By Kenneth Paul ROSENBERG

PBS DISTRIBUTION - as SALES / DISTR

Documentary - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2019
U.S. Documentary Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kenneth Paul ROSENBERG
    • Synopsis
    • What was once a system built around long-term asylum care has essentially become a crude horror show for thousands who are detained, medicated, and tossed onto the streets with no means of recovery. There, petty crime and drug addiction land many in prison, where they are detained and medicated again, creating a tragic loop. As one psychiatrist points out, this government-sanctioned loop is the actual definition of insanity. Add to that the fact that few psychiatrists are even willing to treat those most severely afflicted, and you’ve got an all-out crisis that’s also a major source of homelessness and incarceration.