Somebody dies by taking his or her own life every 40 seconds - in Sweden every 6th hour. The dramatic and emotional short film ´Steps for life´ reaches out for help. - I did not want to die. I just didn´t now how to stay alive, says 18 year old Moa Larsson. Six different stories, six different lives – one inner melancholic world unites them. The 20 times internationally awarded director Paul Jerndal has written and directed the film Steps For Life – an eye opener for many and seen and shared by hundreds of thousand Swedes during the first 24 hours online. After interviewing lots of people who all tried to commit suicide and now lives, Jerndal dived into the world of suicidal thoughts with hopes of finding a way to tell their stories in a completely new way to be able to make people pay attention the important message. - It was a great challenge to find a way to tell these stories without trigger new suicides. When I came up with the inner world, the room, everything came together. I hope the film reaches out to the ones in need to feel understood but even more importantly, to everyone around them, says Paul Jerndal who also did the awarded film Indigo about feeling alienation on the inside. Var sjätte timma tar en människa sitt liv, varje dag, i Sverige. Kanske är det någon som lämnar sina kära just när du läser det här. Om sex timmar händer det igen. Och igen. Och igen. Det här är inte okej. På uppdrag av Västra Götalandsregionen har Suicidprevention i Väst tillsammans med contentbyrån OTW skapat en kampanjfilm som syftar till att bryta tabun och förebygga självmord i Sverige. Paul Jerndal, regissören bakom den flerfaldigt prisbelönta filmen Indigo, har skrivit manus och regisserat. Filmen produceras helt pro bono av OTW.
Somebody dies by taking his or her own life every 40 seconds - in Sweden every 6th hour. The dramatic and emotional short film ´Steps for life´ reaches out for help. - I did not want to die. I just didn´t now how to stay alive, says 18 year old Moa Larsson. Six different stories, six different lives – one inner melancholic world unites them. The 20 times internationally awarded director Paul Jerndal has written and directed the film Steps For Life – an eye opener for many and seen and shared by hundreds of thousand Swedes during the first 24 hours online. After interviewing lots of people who all tried to commit suicide and now lives, Jerndal dived into the world of suicidal thoughts with hopes of finding a way to tell their stories in a completely new way to be able to make people pay attention the important message. - It was a great challenge to find a way to tell these stories without trigger new suicides. When I came up with the inner world, the room, everything came together. I hope the film reaches out to the ones in need to feel understood but even more importantly, to everyone around them, says Paul Jerndal who also did the awarded film Indigo about feeling alienation on the inside. Var sjätte timma tar en människa sitt liv, varje dag, i Sverige. Kanske är det någon som lämnar sina kära just när du läser det här. Om sex timmar händer det igen. Och igen. Och igen. Det här är inte okej. På uppdrag av Västra Götalandsregionen har Suicidprevention i Väst tillsammans med contentbyrån OTW skapat en kampanjfilm som syftar till att bryta tabun och förebygga självmord i Sverige. Paul Jerndal, regissören bakom den flerfaldigt prisbelönta filmen Indigo, har skrivit manus och regisserat. Filmen produceras helt pro bono av OTW.