The Sag Harbor Cinema has announced the launch of its Lighthouse Project, a year-round film and discussion series that illuminates mental health awareness, advocacy, and action. The programs, which are free and open to the public, offer access to mental health information with panel discussions led by experts.
The first, set for Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and focusing on adolescent mental health, includes a screening of "The Son" (2022), a film by Florian Zeller starring Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern, which features an adolescent in crisis, with depictions of self-harm.
Following the film, a panel discussion will include Dr. Daniel Knoepflmacher, vice chairman of education in psychiatry and training director for the general psychiatry residency program at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine; Anastasia Gochnour, a licensed clinical social worker and program director at OLA of Eastern Long Island's YouthConnect, and Angelica Ortiz, M.S.W., OLA program coordinator. Diana Diamond, Ph.D., a psychoanalytic clinician and cinema board member, will moderate the discussion.
