<p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7f362575b2b55cb1122775d37223acad"><iframe type="lazy-iframe" data-runner-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hJ0nLdfu9rc?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span>
</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Boc33IhhvdB/?taken-by=kofisiriboe" target="_blank">Siriboe took to Instagram</a> to express his thoughts and inspiration behind the film. As he's said in his first project, <em>WTF Is Mental Health?</em>, he emphasizes that our community's understanding of mental health is imperative.</p><p>He continues:</p> <blockquote><em>Therapy should be free for students and gang members and broken families and everybody. Schools should establish the realities of being born into a society designed to disconnect us from our simple, so very, delicate, truths; particularly, us, Black people. It's critical that our elders share archetypes and resources assisting younger generations, galvanized, navigating the vast and temporal terrains of the information age. I suppose in a world that perpetuates hate, we take the initiative to, unapologetically, put love on a pedestal. 'Jump' is a safe space i'd like to share with anybody who knows what it feels like to feel anything; or everything.</em><em></em></blockquote><p><em>JUMP</em> was written, directed and executive produced by Siriboe, headed by his production company, <strong><a href="http://viakofi.com/" target="_blank">VIAKOFI</a></strong>. He's joined by <strong>Jael Nuamah</strong>, <strong>Omar Dorsey</strong> and <strong>Chelsea Tavares</strong> in the film. <strong>Denzel Whitaker</strong>, <strong>Joshua Kissi</strong>, <strong>Shawn Marcus Taylor</strong>, <strong>Kwame Boateng</strong> and <strong>Anthony Brooks</strong> are the films producers.</p><p>Revisit the short doc, <em>WTF Is Mental Health?</em>, <a href="http://www.okayafrica.com/kofi-siriboe-tackles-mental-health-in-the-black-community-with-new-documentary-what-the-fuck-is-mental-health/" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p>
Keep reading...
Show less