This month we'd like to introduce you to our client Guild Incorporated Guild Incorporated is a health and human services organization that exists to help people with mental illness lead quality lives.

This fall Emergence Pictures worked with Guild Incorporated on an innovative video that introduced the audience to the experience of having a psychotic break, as well as two women whose stories speak to the importance of support and reducing the stigma that surrounds mental illness. This creative take on the experience of a psychotic break was done through a recording of "voices" that one might hear during such a break and the innovative use of a fish eye lense by Director of Photography, Adrian Danciu. You can see this video on the Emergence Pictures website. Check it out!.

The video premiered at a breakfast benefiting Guild Incorporated on October 26. Mental illness affects every age group, social class and educational level. The State of Minnesota estimates that in 2000 there were 88,680 people in Minnesota with mental illness of a persistent and disabling nature ? about 2.6% of the adult population. With the support and effective rehabilitation offered by organizations like Guild Incorporated, individuals can manage their illness so that they can pursue their life goals. We hope you will take the opportunity to learn more about Guild Incorporated and watch their new video.

Saturday, January 20, 2007
College of St. Catherine
Coeur de Catherine Center
2004 Randolph Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105


Join us as we kick-off an exciting new membership organization designed to mobilize women across the globe to honor, recognize and celebrate the contributions of women, and leverage their leadership capabiliteis to positively change our world.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., the author of the best selling book, Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World will be our keynote speaker, urging women to gather, circle, and take action. Her spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellspring of experiences is engaging and inspiring.

Register online at www.honoringwomenworldwide.org


As a member of the founding board, I have been honored to join a group of visionary women that are dedicated to celebrating the incredible contributions that women play in our world across the globe. We have some lofty goals, which I'll share more in the future, but they include bringing in some of the most inspiring women in the world. In months to come we will have other speakers including the author of one of my favorite books, The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler!!!

This fall Emergence Pictures was commissioned by the office of Martin Olav Sabo to create a short documentary celebrating the career of a politician whose work was deeply respected by his collegues on both sides of the aisle .

Emergence's crew (our Director of Photography on this video was Nicholas Kapanke) spent an afternoon interviewing Sabo's wife Sylvia, and former Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson and uncovered the story of a humble man whose work on behalf of Minnesotans is profound.

Check out the story of Martin Olav Sabo.