The Team
Suman Fernando
Producer
Formerly a consultant psychiatrist, Suman is now Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at the London Metropolitan University. Suman is known for his critical approach to western psychiatry and psychology from a transcultural perspective, and his writing on how institutional racism is embedded in these disciplines when practiced in the UK.
He has written and lectured extensively in UK, Sri Lanka and Canada, been involved in NGOs in all three countries and latterly in mental health development in the Third World. His books include Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry; The Struggle Against Racism (2003), Mental Health, Race and Culture (third edition, 2010); Mental Health Worldwide; Culture: Globalization and Development (2014); Institutional racism in psychiatry and clinical psychology (2017); and most recently (co-edited) Global Psychologies; Mental Health in the Global South (2018).
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Indiana Hamilton-Brown
Cinematographer
Indiana is a cinematographer, passionate about mental health and humanitarianism. Working with Mind Wick, he is proud to make films that change lives and start discussions.
He aims to bring the transformative power of story to under-served communities. He believes films are a powerful tool to change perceptions. A well told story can change the world.
John Richardson
Director
A filmmaker who is focussed in creating films around the subject of mental health. Having had his own encounters with mental health services, he is enthusiastic about putting ‘lived experience’ at the axiom of understanding.
Founder of the video and animation production company Mind Wick and director of the short films ‘Medicating me’ , ‘Being Jesus’. And more recently ‘Living with suicide’ - he hopes to make films that challenge audiences' through irreverence and authenticity.
Jessica Pons
Producer
Jessica is the Hearing Voices Team project manager at Mind in Camden. She develops Hearing Voices Groups in places such as prisons, young people's mental health services and in the community (Voices Unlocked, Voice Collective, and the London Hearing Voices Network).
She is also an integrative psychotherapist practicing within a feminist/sociopolitical framework. Jess is a mixed-race black woman with lived experience of mental health difficulties, meaning institutional racism within psychology/psychiatry are part of her life story, as well as witnessing it from the other side when employed in various services.