Tyler Simmonds can pinpoint a time during his last year of high school when everything changed. Mainstreet NS 9:41 Tyler Simmonds' new film seeks to combat stigma surrounding mental illness Public speaker and filmmaker Tyler Simmonds from North Preston spoke with guest host Preston Mulligan about this new film, The Search For Healing, which will be featured at this year's Halifax Black Film Festival. 9:41He hopes his latest project, a short documentary film called The Search For Healing, encourages communities like his hometown of North Preston to talk about mental health. It's helped North Preston and East Preston be the communities that they are now." His next film, There's Soul in Our Soil, looked at the intergenerational trauma caused by racism and how it affects mental health in North Preston.

Source: CBC News February 24, 2021 20:44 UTC