GAME Designer Owen Harris’ latest project is a meditative and psychoactive virtual reality game called DEEP that is controlled by breathing. Players don the Oculus Rift and the custom DEEP controller to explore a beautiful and mysterious undersea world. Some users have found the games relaxing embrace, which teaches you yogic breathing techniques, to relieve stress, anxiety and mild depression. Steve Cummins caught up with... Read More

Podcast – First Fortnight

Owen Harris on ‘Deep’, the Virtual Reality game that relieves anxiety

MARK O’Halloran is an Irish scriptwriter and actor best known for his award-winning screenplays for the films Adam & Paul and Garage. A native of Ennis, County Clare, we were delighted when Mark dropped by First Fortnight HQ to discuss the theme of mental health in his work.  Listen below and download via iTunes Presenter: JP Swaine Produced and edited by Steve Cummins First Fortnight podcast #3... Read More

Mark O’Halloran on Lippy, male isolation, mental health and Garage

FIRST Fortnight is delighted to unveil its second podcast of 2015 featuring filmmaker Frank Berry. Frank’s latest film, I Used To Live Here, has just been released in Irish cinemas and last year picked up the Best First Feature Award at the Galway Film Fleadh. The film follows Amy Keane, a 13-year-old trying to cope with the death of her mother and the reappearance of her... Read More

Film and examining youth suicide with I Used To Live Here director Frank Berry

FIRST Fortnight is delighted to unveil its first podcast of 2015 featuring John Kavanagh, Mixed Martial Arts coach and Conor McGregor’s head coach. John sits in with First Fortnight’s JP Swaine and guests Diarmuid Lyng, Wexford hurler, broadcaster and youth facilitator with Soar (soar.ie) and Ruairí McKiernan, Irish social entrepreneur, campaigner and founder of SpunOut.ie, to discuss mental health within a sports context. Listen below and... Read More

Mental health and sport with John Kavanagh – First Fortnight podcast #1

Challenging Mental Health Stigma Through Creative Arts

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