Our film is saving lives
The BiPolar Rock-n-Roller movie is saving lives around the world.
In 2015, shortly after formalizing our charity, the advisory group sat down to determine which technologies would make the largest impact with our efforts
Since our group has producers, directors and talents in technology and artistic expression, we settled on making a film about one of our own.
Mauro Ranallo sits on our board of directors and is an awarded sports broadcaster and television personality who has suffered from bipolar disorder since he was 16 years old.
Even with a busy travel schedule Mauro always makes time to help others and we believed that his journey and spirit of supporting people would make a powerful story that would inspire people to action.
At the beginning of 2016 we began to document his mental health treatments and daily struggles alongside of the triumphs of a stellar professional career.
Mauro is known worldwide as the voice of combat sports calling the biggest pay-per-view matches and would make history again by becoming the first broadcaster on network television to call every major combat sport: Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, Professional Wrestling, and Kickboxing.
While achieving these historic milestones in his professional career our team captured the daily battle to overcome a severe mental illness in what would become the feature film: The BiPolar Rick-n-Roller.
During the production we decided to donate the films proceeds to the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) the leader on research and education for mental illnesses and insured that the information we shared was the most important
Upon completion of production we partnered with Showtime Networks who distributed the film through its premium networks, digital streaming and even on airplanes.
These two partnerships insured that millions of people would see this powerful film, a film that Newsweek said was a “tough but necessary film”
We are forever grateful to all those who participated and donated their time and energy to this powerful movement and we are proud do use this technology to help smash the stigma of mental health.
We would like to thank Mauro Ranallo for his bravery, our director Haris Usanovic, Showtime Networks for believing in this unique idea, NAMI, Fountain House, WWE, BellatorMMA, and all the media that shared this message.
The film is available online free of charge, courtesy of Showtime Networks and you can watch it right here: BiPolar Rock-n-Roller.
Our next media project begins in 2020, learn more here.