By Jonathan Turner
Moline Dispatch, Entertainment Editor
Twisted Sisters Productions, a local independent filmmaking group, will premiere “I’m Fine,” a short film about mental-health awareness, at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd St. Admission is free.
The 40-minute movie is the semi-autobiographical story of its director, producer and co-writer, Elise Edens, a 23-year-old from Moline who graduated from the University of Tampa in Florida, majoring in history and minoring in film.
“This film is a personal journey that has become a public mission,” she said. “Mental health and depression touch me personally, and because of that experience, my goal is to lift the curtain from mental illness and reach people, to show them that they aren’t alone.”
She begins to heal when she realizes that speaking up and rising above any stigma attached to mental health is the only way to survive.
“We really want people to know it’s OK to not be OK, that it’s OK to ask for help,” Edens said. “Throughout the film, she relies on her best friend a lot. She realizes she needs to get help from somebody other than her best friend, that it’s OK to talk about it. It doesn’t make you an alien.”
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