SOCIAL MEDIA ART MADE FOR SHARING
Video dominates social media, but with so much content only the best and most engaging stories go viral. That’s what happened when Melissa Del Gratta recorded the incredible story of a YouTube engineering and aviation influencer called Xyla Foxlin, who talks struggling with mental health concerns linked to her choice of birth control. She gets reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), diagnosed with hysteria and grounded – maybe for life. Her experience raises questions about access to professional mental health support for pilots, and how the FAA’s policies push pilots in need of mental health support into the shadow – and out of the cockpit for life. This issue doesn’t just impact pilots, it’s something that affects anyone relying on air travel. This short documentary was produced entirely by a small team from Long Haul Films, and it’s already had a huge impact. It racked up more than 300,000 views and 5000 comments in its first week on YouTube. It’s now close to half a million views and more than 7000 comments. It has raised more than $10,000 in donations and inspired hundreds of people to sign up to volunteer with the Pilot Mental Health Campaign, an organisation Foxlin is working with to help change the way the FAA legislates mental health for pilots.
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This category focuses on attention-grabbing footage used to tell incredible stories. The winner is Matt Green, who filmed Talk to Frank , collaborating with his friend Maleek Kuba-Kuba. “I’ve had the fortune to get to know Maleek from just after he first started to get in the outdoors and hearing his story about Frank. I knew it would make a great short film,” says Green. The hero of the piece is Frank, a cocker spaniel from Manchester and Maleek’s dog. “After a breakthrough on how to get the perspective just right – thanks to my wife and business partner Ellie – we got the grant funding and some additional support to make the film happen. Maleek wasn’t in a great place – having just finished a four-year sentence, he found himself transitioning from one prison to another in the Covid-19 lockdown and a debilitating depression.” But with Frank at his side, he forced himself out of the house to go on walks, which led to running, then mountain running at Pen-y ghent. Maleek now sees the mountains as his spiritual home, tackling routes higher and further than he has ever been before. The film has had ten film festival selections worldwide, a testament to Green’s storytelling skills.
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