Turn Down the Flame
equal rights collage

Is it any more complicated with mental illness? We don’t want to minimize the difficulty. We do want to find a way to stop the marginalization.

Is it any more complicated with mental illness?

Step outside your comfort zones and reach out a little more, "come out" a little more, tolerate a little more, challenge a little more, risk a little more.

The Hot Stove Project has produced a feature length film - Daniel, Debra, Leslie (And You?)
We have also produced a short film on mental health stigma - How to Touch a Hot Stove: Thought and Behavioral Differences in a Society of Norms - directed by Sheryll Franko, and a 40-minute presentation of supplementary interview material entitled CRAZY?.

View Films
These short films are meant for screening by local public television stations, cinemas, and screening in the classroom or the work place.