Face 2 Face With David Peck

Camilla Henriksen and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film, childhood stories and neglect, mental health issues, secret dreams, parenting making choices and how we all have untapped resources of a particular sort. Synopsis  In Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s startling first feature, a young girl struggles to keep her family together in the aftermath of a tragedy that forces her to grow up far too quickly. When Jill, the heroine of the startling Phoenix, arrives home from school, she calls out tentatively for her mother. She slips quietly around the family’s spacious yet dark apartment, laid out like a vampire’s lair with every piece of furniture as far from the light as possible. Relieved to find her mother Astrid asleep, Jill swiftly goes to work dumping the half-empty bottles of booze littered around the bedroom. Phoenix fearlessly charts the horrors of living with a parent suffering from mental illness exacerbated by substance abuse. When Astrid’s depression gets the better