The Recovery Channel

"There is no health without mental health, and there is no mental health without human rights” begins THE RECOVERY CHANNEL. The film subverts traditional documentary structure, delivering authentic voices reflecting unique perspectives on mental health and recovery – while exposing the hypocrisy of modern therapy’s reliance on coercion as a treatment tool.

The Recovery Channel is both a personal and a political film. The film is based on the directors own experiences with a younger brother who has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for 25 years. Recovery Channel explores what it is like to be deprived of freedom and while calling for a more humanistic view on mental illness. The Recovery Channel takes an extreme and unflinching look at mental health as a human right. A human right often violated by lack of resources and training, and outdated medical treatments designed to coerce a patient, not rehabilitate them.