April 6 COMING SOON!
Parents & guardians please join us for this important event!
LIKE achieves the impossible: actually getting kids and teens to put down their
phones for a few minutes.
On 4/6/23, the Westbrook School Department in partnership with Westbrook Partners for Prevention will hold a special screening of the documentary at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center to open up a dialogue between local families, community leaders and experts. The movie shows at 5:00pm and a panel discussion will follow.
This take-action, inspiring film is the 2nd installment in the award-winning iMPACTFUL Mental
Health Trilogy, created to entertain, engage and enlighten about issues surrounding mental
health. Before Covid, 2 billion smartphone owners were checking their phones, on average, 150
times a day, and the enforced isolation and mandated screen time of the past year has only
increased this figure. Research continues to confirm that having your head down, staring at the
screen, chasing “likes” and seeking “followers” is the perfect recipe for low self-esteem, isolation and depression, as well as loss of focus and patience.
The medical and science experts explain the behavioral changes that come from chemical effects on the brain. But the 49 minute-long LIKE does not leave you with a sense of fear and foreboding. The core of the documentary is built around the kids and teens interviewed, and the empathy that they build with their audience as they look honestly at their usage and dependence on these tiny devices, consider the good that can come from and be transmitted via social media, and rethink the relationship to one where they are much more aware and in balance. Finally, a funny and engaging dancing panda meme at the end of the film perfectly illustrates the very sad rabbit holes our phones are sending us down, preventing us from looking up and seeing the world.
iNDIEFLIX Group Inc is a global education and streaming service that promotes and supports
social impact films to create positive change in the world. iMPACTFUL, as a part of iNDIEFLIX,
books online and offline community screenings in schools and corporations around the world,
while iNDIEFLIX Streaming offers a monthly subscription-based service to access thousands of high-quality shorts, features, documentaries, and series from around the world.
https://www.indieflix.com and https://www.impactful.com.