Lee Daniel

About: I am the writer and director of Quiet Scream: my first microfilm. It explores what it is like to experience a psychotic episode. This is an area of mental illness that intrigues me as my brother has been a sufferer of schizophrenia for 10 years and in that time I have met with stigma and a poor understanding of the condition. And so not only does the patient suffer in silence but so does the family. Many prevailing misconceptions about this disease exist, and the public generally fears the symptoms. However, what is lesser known, is that sufferers often take their own lives as they struggle to manage the conditions. I had a small amount of time to try to get the viewer to connect with the nightmarish world that the main character; John, inhabits. I would in the future like to explore this subject further and make a long short which elaborates on these themes.