Rebeccah Love draws from her past battles with mental health for short film Eve Parada
Ahead of the event, Love spoke with The Globe and Mail about the intersections between art and outreach.
After graduating high school, I had every intention of becoming a lawyer like my father. But I got very sick after my first year of university, experiencing mania and psychosis. It was an enormous challenge, but my illness made me realize that I wanted to make movies for a living. I had a stretch of four years when I was in and out of hospitals, but afterward I registered at Ryerson for film school, and by the time I was 21, I felt like I had gained control of my illness.
On the one hand, it comes naturally – there’s that therapeutic aspect to it, where it’s liberating and cathartic. But there are professional and personal repercussions, too. There could be employers who don’t want to hire you. People who you go on dates with that are terrified about your history. It’s beautiful, exciting, terrifying. But it’s worth it in the end.
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