The Imagining Robert film and dialogue series is a collaboration of The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Florentine Films/Hott Productions. The film, based on the book by Jay Neugeboren, tells the story of two brothers, Jay, a prize-winning writer and former UMass writing professor and his brother, Robert, who has been in and out of mental institutions for 38 years. It will be the centerpiece of a series of public screenings meant to foster dialogue about mental illness and its impact on families. Each public screening is designed to bring people from different backgrounds – patients, families, police, social workers, lawyers, health-care providers – together in a non-crisis situation.

For more information, visit www.imaginingrobert.org

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