Upcoming Screenings:
May 27, 2025 - MAINE PUBLIC TELEVISION. Scheduled broadcast 9pm ET.
June 29, 2025 - TEMPLE KI hosts at Lionsgate Screening Room, 2700 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404
To host a screening of OUTSIDER in your area please contact Laura Ornest at lornest@gmail.com
Screenings:
1. May 16, 2025 - SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY, Ashland, Oregon.
Creativity Conference.
Presented by UC Santa Barbara Chair of Psychology, Dr. Steve Smith;
Among the panelists:Drexel University Professor of Neuropsychology, Dr. Eric Zillmer.
2. May 5 and May 27, 2025 - MAINE PUBLIC TELEVISION. Scheduled broadcast 9pm ET.
3. May 4, 2025 - PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART, Portland, Maine.
Among the panelists: Dr. Cynthia Sortwell child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, clinical assistant professor, Tufts University; Catherine Ryder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Spurwink; Sara Balascio, art therapist, ArtVan.
4. January, 2025 – Presented by JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES AND VANCOUVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL at The Roundhouse in Vancouver, B.C.
5. December 2024 – HARBOR UCLA HOSPITAL, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Los Angeles.
Among the panelists: Dr. Michael Makhinson, Temporary Chair Department of Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Hospital.
6. December, 2024 – HILLEL UCLA.
Among the panelists: Dr. Caryn Bernstein, Deputy Division Chief of Behavioral Health at Los Angeles VA Medical Center; Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA.
7. November, 2024 – BEIT T’SHUVA RECOVERY HOUSE, Los Angeles.
Panel Moderated by Chaplain Adam Siegel, Director of Spiritual Care and Programming, Beit T'Shuvah. Among the panelists: psychiatrist, Dr. Binyamin Amrami; Rabbi Jade Carter.
8. November, 2024 – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA.
Among the panelists: UCSB Director of Athletics, Dr. Kelly Barsky; Art Professor, Jane Callister; Director of psychological services UCSB, Dr. Steve Smith, Teaching Professor of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology; Chair and Hosford Counseling & Psychological Services Clinic Director.
9. October, 2024 – BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Department of Film Studies Brunswick, Maine.
Among the panelists: Shelley Roseboro, Associate Director of Clinical Services, Bowdoin College; Licensed counselor.
10. August, 2024 – HISTORIC WALDO THEATRE, Waldoboro, Maine.
Among the panelists: Jeremy Nobel,, MD, MPH, founder and president of The Foundation for Art & Healing, and Project UnLonely; Faculty Harvard Medical School; Dr. Cynthia Sortwell, child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst; Eric Meyer, executive director Spurwink Services.
11. June, 2024 – RESNICK CAMPUS OF WILSHIRE BLVD. TEMPLE, Los Angeles.
Among the panelists: Dr. Mary Read, Medical Director, Outpatient Services, Harbor-UCLA Hospital; Supervising Psychiatrist, LA County Department of Mental Health; Clinical Professor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
12. June, 2024 – BEACH CITIES HEALTH DISTRICT, Redondo Beach, CA
Among the panelists: Dr. Michael Collins, gallery owner, and psychotherapist.
13. May, 2024 - Zoom screening Schizophrenia Society of Canada. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QIx2aA13_W6KJwHVPLddnNg73XUyPRh3/edit
Among the panelists: CEO Chris Summerville: Dr. Phil Tibbo, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; artist Nigel Bart who has schizophrenia.
14. February, 2024 – SINAI TEMPLE, Los Angeles.
Among the panelists: Dr. David Fogelson, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA.
15. November, 2023 – VISTA DEL MAR, Los Angeles.
Among the panelists: Dr. Stephen Marder, Professor of Psychiatry, Vice Chair for Education; Director of the Section on Psychosis at the UCLA Semel Institute; Director of the Mental Illness Research, Education Clinical Center for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
16. October, 2023 – MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL. WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT. https://montclairfilm.org/events/outsider/
17. June, 2023 – UCLA FRIENDS OF THE SEMEL INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR. MELNITZ HALL.
Among the panelists: Dr. Michael Gitlin, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Director of the Mood Disorders Clinic at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Medical Director of the Aftercare Clinic, a research clinic specializing in schizophrenia, and Director of Specialty Clinics.
OUTSIDER - Trailer
OUTSIDER
OUTSIDER, a 40 minute award - winning documentary, addresses both the tragedy and redemption that can result from mental illness. This complex landscape becomes personal as we learn about Maury Ornest, whose life encompassed baseball, schizoaffective disorder, and art.
After Maury Ornest’s death at age 58, his sister Laura discovered more than 1,400 paintings in every room of his home and secret storage units, a discovery which set her on an unexpected journey. OUTSIDER presents a rarely seen, unvarnished view of a family’s journey with mental illness and captures the surprising ways they found connection.
Directed by Ted Haimes and produced by Ted Haimes and Nicole Lucas Haimes, OUTSIDER won the Audience Award for best short at the Montclair Film Festival. Maury’s journals are narrated by Gary Gulman.
OUTSIDER is not yet available online, but if you’d like to schedule a community screening, please contact Laura Ornest at lornest@gmail.com
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