PERFORMANCE  5 - Psychiatric Survivor & Attribution a Tribulation
Channel: reTHiNK Nz
Date: 13/11/2012

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Musical Credit -- "Psychiatric Survivor" by Johnny Matteson * Winner of the reTHiNK Best Song Award*
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Attribution a Tribulation 
Written by Lora D. Keyes 
Directed by Adrian Frencken 
Starring:
The Patient: Alexandra Powell
The Clinician: Paul Roukchan

Society sends messages all the time to most of us.  If our only power resides in how we control our reaction to external stimuli, what happens when you hear the same message over and over and over again?

Lora D. Keyes is a recent émigré to New Zealand from the United States and has been quietly writing poetry and screenplays for many years.  She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University in New York. In addition to producing and directing several short film projects, she has worked as a film production coordinator, a journalist, a copy editor, a salesperson, an administrator and a charity fundraiser.  She is last year's winner of the reTHiNK Possible World's short video competition and plans to exhibit more work in New Zealand.

Adrian Frencken  is a film maker and storyteller, having Directed and shot Short films and commercials. He Loves working with Actors and putting on a show. In his spare time he writes, reads, draws and wrestles with bears in the wild