The Hidden Face of Fear
The Hidden Face of Fear
Since September 11, 2001, New York has become the center of a new epidemic of fear and anxiety that has rapidly spread through the western world. Just as fear can spread within a society, so can anxiety spread within our minds.
The Hidden Face of Fear recounts the studies of two of the world’s leading experts on fear and memory, Joseph LeDoux and Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel, and the application of their findings on patients at the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety in New York. The film tells three emblematic stories of people suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Panic Disorder: What was the impact of 9/11 on their brains? Why were they more vulnerable than others? Have they been able to overcome fear? The study of individual case histories is the key for the new science of mind to find new psychological and biological ways of coping with fear and anxiety.
An ARTE France / Les Films d’Ici / Zenit Arti Audiovisive co-production
with the support of Media Programme of the European Union, Piemonte Doc Film Fund - fondo regionale per il documentario, Centre National de la Cinematographie and the participation of YLE and CBC Radio Canada.
2008, HDCAM 52' col.
Written and Directed by: Enrico Cerasuolo, Sergio Fergnachino
Produced by: Massimo Arvat (Zenit Arti Audiovisive), Serge Lalou (Les Films d’Ici)
Director of Photography: Ned Burgess
Editor: Marco Duretti
Sound: Luciano Dies
Animation: Tommaso Cerasuolo
Original Music: Gregorio Caporale
With Elia Zedeno, Chris Burke, Lourdes Lopez and the scientists Joseph LeDoux, Eric R. Kandel, Marylene Cloitre, David Silbersweig, Elizabeth Phelps
Awards
Grand Jury Award (Best Italian Documentary), Rome Doscient Festival 2009
Official Finalist, Las Vegas International Film Festival, 2009
Bronze Award, Health & Science Communications Association Media Festival, 2010
Festivals
DocOuest Rencontres Documentaire, 2008
Pariscience, 2008
RISC Rencontres Internationales Cinéma et Sciences, 2008
BaKaFORUM, 2009
Piemontemovie, 2009
Vedere la Scienza, 2009
Academia Film Olomouc, 2009
Festival du Film Scientifique de La Réunion, 2009
CAID International Science Film Festival, 2009
SCINEMA Festival of Science Film, Brisbane, 2009
SCENECS The Central Dutch Film Festival, Amersfoort, 2009
SF2 European Festival of Educational and Science Films, Vienna, 2009
Festival du Film Scientifique Saint-Joseph, 2009
EPA Eastern Psychological Association Film Festival, 2010
WPA Western Psychological Association Film Festival, 2010
A Film for Peace Festival, Gorizia, 2010
I corti sul lettino Festival, Napoli, 2010
Miami Italian Film Festival, 2010
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