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Your Own Sneak Peak!
The first-time backpacker, Katie goes on a winter adventure with friends to find Native American petroglyphs. The adventure turns sour when the next morning she wakes up to find the camp empty.
Will her fears become too strong to handle?
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'Your Own' short film - Director Grace Ward with Newton to Newton Productions
ABOUT/THE IDEA
YOUR OWN is born out of my experience with PTSD and the effects unprocessed trauma causes. It showcases truly how powerful our brain can be to create our own realities. This film is an exploration of the circular pattern my brain has so often put me through as I’ve dealt with stress and trauma.
Through my own research and talking with licensed counselors and therapists, the idea for this film was born.
The method of EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy used most often with military personnel with PTSD, was discovered by a therapist while she was hiking along the trail. His eyes moving back and forth to study her path stimulated her brain and processed the stress she was dealing with.
Katie’s, our main character, frontal cortex has shut down (the rationale, logical part of her brain) and she is now operating out of her fight or flight zone like many do who have experienced trauma that is unprocessed. She starts projecting her fears of being left alone on everything around her. In a circular pattern, like what happens in our brains during traumatic events, she digs herself deeper and deeper unable to break through her fears.
Now we put her in the otherworldly landscape of Southern Idaho and it all becomes a perfect storm.
Through my own research and talking with licensed counselors and therapists, the idea for this film was born.
The method of EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy used most often with military personnel with PTSD, was discovered by a therapist while she was hiking along the trail. His eyes moving back and forth to study her path stimulated her brain and processed the stress she was dealing with.
Katie’s, our main character, frontal cortex has shut down (the rationale, logical part of her brain) and she is now operating out of her fight or flight zone like many do who have experienced trauma that is unprocessed. She starts projecting her fears of being left alone on everything around her. In a circular pattern, like what happens in our brains during traumatic events, she digs herself deeper and deeper unable to break through her fears.
Now we put her in the otherworldly landscape of Southern Idaho and it all becomes a perfect storm.
BTS because that is where the magic is made
That set vibe! - Open Blue Media photo credit
