ABOUT THE PROJECT: Two-time Emmy award winning filmmaker, Robyn Symon, takes on the physician suicide crisis that has claimed the lives of countless medical students, doctors, and patients.
LOGLINE: Medical students and families of physicians touched by suicide come out of the shadows to expose the truth about a sick healthcare system that not only risks patients’ lives, but drives our brilliant young doctors to take their own lives.
SYNOPSIS / DESCRIPTION: Doctors are supposed to be our healers, yet they have the highest rate of suicide among any profession. Do No Harm weaves intimate stories of suicidal doctors and surviving families of young doctors who have taken their own lives with experts who reveal the truth behind this silent epidemic. What you don’t know about medical culture can kill you. Bullying, sleep deprivation, and assembly-line medicine lead not only to medical mistakes—the third leading cause of death in the U.S.—but to the deaths of our doctors. The film explores this hidden culture at our medical schools and hospitals that drives our doctors to desperation and death while also revealing the groundbreaking solutions that are saving the lives of promising young doctors—and their patients.
We need your support! Please donate now so we can complete this film. Plan is to head to Sundance Film Festival in January, 2017, and then to PBS and international distribution. This is a global human rights issue and we need your support. Funding goal: 360K. Any amount helps.
Have you lost a med student or physician to suicide?
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORSHIP
$1, 000+ Physician Friend – Website honor page with your name.
$5, 000+ Physician Film Credit – Screen rolling credit and website honor page “Your name (in memory of), ” 5 VIP tickets to local film premiere, 5 DVDs of film.
$10, 000+ Expanded Physician Film Credit – Screen rolling credit and website honor page “Your name (in memory of), ” you/your organization (and logo) in all film press releases & promotional materials, 10 VIP tickets to local film premiere, 10 DVDs of film.
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP
$25, 000+ Half-Screen Credit – Half-screen film credit shared with another organization with your logo and message “This film made possible by a generous donation from your name, ” website honor page and interactive social media links to your organization, your organization in all film press releases & promotional materials, 20 VIP tickets to local film premiere, 20 DVDs of film.
$50, 000+ Full-Screen Credit – Full-screen film credit dedicated to your organization with your logo and message “This film made possible by a generous donation from your name, ” website honor page and interactive social media links to your organization, your organization in all film press releases & promotional materials, 30 VIP tickets to local film premiere, 30 DVDs of the film.
$100, 000+ Executive Producer Credit – Full-screen film credit dedicated to your organization with your logo and message “This film made possible by a generous donation from your name, ” Executive Producer credit for CEO/President, website honor page and interactive social media links to your organization, your organization in all film press releases & promotional materials, 50 VIP tickets to local film premiere with film stars, 50 DVDs of the film, plus a private organizational screening of the film (and Q&A with film director and subjects).
Donations by check: 1) Tax-deductible donations payable to The Film Collaborative (they take 5% fee). 2) Non-tax-deductible donations payable to Symon Productions. In memo line write “Do No Harm.” Mail to: Symon Productions, Inc., 11911 Dorothy Street Unit 205, Los Angeles, CA 90049.
