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people say i’m crazy at usf

The University of South Florida’s Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute is hosting two free screenings of People Say I’m Crazy, the first documentary photographed and directed by someone with schizophrenia. Artist and director John Cadigan gives a glimpse of his “chaotic, paranoid and creative universe where he struggles to know what is real and what is not.”

People Say I’m Crazy will screen on December 2 at 3 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. at the Gibbons Alumni Center at USF. This event is free and open to the public. Popcorn and sodas will be served and parking permits will be provided. After each screening, director John Cadigan and producer Katie Cadigan will be on-hand for Q&A.

Cadigan’s woodcuts, which will be on display at the screening, have toured galleries and museums around the world.

Cadigan’s sister, documentarian Katie Cadigan, and Academy Award-winning documentarian Ira Wohl (Best Boy) also took part in the making of this film. People Say I’m Crazy, which has never been shown in local theaters, has won many festival awards, including the 2004 Outstanding Media Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the Best Documentary Film Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

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