A charity film that aims to spread awareness on mental health issues by telling the life-stories of five survivors and their struggles with wellbeing.

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The film launch, held at Phoenix Square on Saturday July 23 (2011), saw around 50 attendants at its two 30 seated screenings. In the audience for the first showing was Ted Cassidy, Leicester City's Assistant Mayor for Culture and Regeneration, he said: "It is a well-made and thought-provoking film".

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Ted's thoughts on creative therapies were that: "clearly creative activities like art, film, poetry, music and drama can assist in improving people's wellbeing and mental health. Training is essential in the use of creative activities in therapeutic situations."

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We focus on broad issues that are popular about Mental Health, carry public service values and are able to deal with complex and difficult issues because the project is led by survivors who have expert experience. The suffering and coping strategies these survivors have been through could be said to be at the heart of the drama in many successful shows and films. The objective in this film is not simply to reflect the subjects' experience but to encourage personal transformation in the viewer and inspire them to greater wellbeing.

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Lizzie Maitland, RECOVERY's founder member and project leader said: "These survivors tell their Life-Stories with flashbacks to their childhood. This film will reveal how Mental Health is really 'a sort of lost truth.' It will help the wider public to recognise that compulsion is unjust and against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most of the 25% of people who are sectioned have been misrepresented and are more in touch with reality than those family, friends and professionals who locked them up. We would like everyone to have freedom of choice about their treatment, freedom from the fear of torture and freewill to find wellbeing."

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The film was made with help from professionals such as Rajiv Popat, a film reporter with ITV and Romail Gulzar, Cameraman with Pukaar News.

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I'm a Survivor Get Me Out of Here is out on DVD and available to buy from RECOVERY's office or ordered online from here. All proceeds go towards improving the wellbeing of those suffering from mental health problems in and around Leicester.

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Watch the trailer for the film here​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​