About the Rendezvous With Madness
Film Festival

“Every film worth watching opens fissures in the mind, which should have made Rendezvous with Madness unnecessary. But 12 years on, it’s become an essential gaze into the crack’d mirror.”
Cameron Bailey, NOW Magazine 2004

Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival is an annual film festival that presents features and shorts touching upon the facts and mythology surrounding mental health and addiction. Each program focuses on a different theme. Post-screening panel discussions involve filmmakers, artists and people with professional and personal experience with mental illness and addiction.

About the Presenter

The Workman Theatre Project (WTP) promotes a greater understanding of mental health and addiction issues through various artistic media and supports people who receive mental health and addiction services in their artistic pursuits.

WTP is a not-for profit incorporated company that works with numerous arts organizations and mental health organizations. WTP has produced more than sixteen original Canadian plays, toured to over thirty theatres across Ontario and Manitoba, and played to more than 115,000 people. The company has a current membership base of 300 members to which it offers year round arts training opportunities.

WTP produces the annual RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS FILM FESTIVAL (RWM), the annual BEING SCENE ART EXHIBIT and, produced the first ever MADNESS AND ARTS 2003 WORLD FESTIVAL at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. The Manfred Becker/WTP film, THE LIFE OF ME aired on TVO in 2004.  In the spring of 2005, WTP participated in METAMORPHOSIS – TORONTO’S FESTIVAL OF TRANSFORMATION AND THE ARTS.

More information about the Workman Theatre Project and its other projects.