The Common Thread - Otis Carey Profile

A video portrait of Indigenous artist and Billabong surfer Otis Carey. We are incredibly grateful for Otis sharing his journey with mental health and the tools that have helped him navigate depression.

“I didn’t understand my brain and how it was working and what it needed. But when I found art, it really calmed my mind down,” – Otis Carey.

Our mental health video series ‘The Common Thread’ sees Being Here director Darius Devas travel across Australia to meet young Australians from all walks of life, who open up about their mental ill health and share the tools and tactics that have supported their recovery.

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CREDITS

Director/ Producer/ Writer/ Editor - Darius Devas

Co-Producers - Will Harvey-Jones & Adam Farrington-Williams

Director of Photography & Colourist - Caleb Graham

Digital Producer/ Publicist - David Elliot-Jones

Sound Recordist - Steve Nossiter

Sound Mixer - Brad Klenk

Assembly Editor - Linda Nossiter

Music - Nick Huggins

Indigenous Consultant - Valda Bokmakarray

Legals - Stephen Boyle

Accounts - Nagle Accounting

Additional Footage - Billabong, Darius Devas

Thankyou - headspace, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, SANE Australia, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Bi-Polar Australia, Screenworks, Billabong, Luka Lesson, Coralie Tapper, Tim Parish, Geraldine Devas, Tricia Shantz, Amy Essery, Amelia Chambers, Judit Yolanda, Matthew Loft, Elizabeth Devas, Taylor Miller, Kimberley Galceran, Ken Crouch, Oliver Nicholson.

Principal Funding from SCREEN AUSTRALIA

Major Partners - headspace & Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health

Fundraising Partner - Documentary Australia Foundation

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