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A Casa dos Mortos (House of the Dead)
By: Anis
Posted: Apr 29 09
Witnessed: 5180 times
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Prisons
Tags: advocacy, Bahia, Debora Diniz, inhumane treatment, It's all true, justice system, mental health, psychiatric prisons, suicide, VAI
House of the Dead explores the lives of people with mental disorders that are living in psychiatric prisons in Brazil. Through personal stories of inmates from a psychiatric unit in the state of Bahia, House of the Dead exposes the abuse and errors that have marked the Brazilian psychiatric prison system thus far.
The film was produced by Brazilian nonprofit ANIS (Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights, and Gender) with the goal of providing evidence that could help pressure the Brazilian government to review and reform the country's penal psychiatric system. According to ANIS, there are an estimated 4,500 living in these circumstances in Brazil today.
House of the Dead was directed by WITNESS Video Advocacy Institute participant Debora Diniz and was launched on April 24 in Brasília in partnership with Brazil's National Movement for Pyschiatric Reform.
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