Manic is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kalina Bertin and released in 2017. The film depicts Bertin's efforts, in response to a family history of bipolar disorder, to investigate parts of her father's prior life in Montserrat that she did not know about; she ultimately uncovers the revelations that her father was a cult leader who also suffered from bipolar disorder, and who had, unbeknownst to Bertin until making the film, also fathered at least 12 other children with four other women. The film premiered at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Awards When Daniel Cross won Hot Docs' Don Haig Award, he selected Bertin as the recipient of a $5,000 grant for emerging women documentary filmmakers. The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Editing in a Documentary (Anouk Deschênes). It was also a Prix Iris nominee for Best Documentary Film and Best Editing in a Documentary at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.

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Notable quotes

“Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence?”
— Achish king of Gath, Bible, Samuel I, 21:15.
“Get it understood how dangerous these damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves - and above all, to our children, whose traits are taking form and we shall find ways to put an end to them.”
— Donald Ewen Cameron as quoted by Harvey Weinstein in Father, Son and CIA, pg. 101.
“Insanity was not unknown among the wealthy. Indeed, some forms of madness had sometimes been cultivated as fashionable accessories.”
— Matthew Hughes, Majestrum (2006), , p. 60
“Bobby asked him what it was like to be insane. “There is nothing that being insane is like,” Rupert replied.”
— James Morrow, The War of the Worldviews (2002). Originally published in Mars Probes, reprinted in Karen Haber & Robert Silverberg (ed.) Science Fiction: The Best of 2002, p. 272
“Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.”
— It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
“Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.”
— Mark Twain, "A New Crime" (1870), as reprinted in Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain (1995), ed. Stuart Miller,

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Notable quotes

“Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence?”
— Achish king of Gath, Bible, Samuel I, 21:15.
“Get it understood how dangerous these damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves - and above all, to our children, whose traits are taking form and we shall find ways to put an end to them.”
— Donald Ewen Cameron as quoted by Harvey Weinstein in Father, Son and CIA, pg. 101.
“Insanity was not unknown among the wealthy. Indeed, some forms of madness had sometimes been cultivated as fashionable accessories.”
— Matthew Hughes, Majestrum (2006), , p. 60
“Bobby asked him what it was like to be insane. “There is nothing that being insane is like,” Rupert replied.”
— James Morrow, The War of the Worldviews (2002). Originally published in Mars Probes, reprinted in Karen Haber & Robert Silverberg (ed.) Science Fiction: The Best of 2002, p. 272
“Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.”
— It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad.
“Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.”
— Mark Twain, "A New Crime" (1870), as reprinted in Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain (1995), ed. Stuart Miller,

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Manic is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kalina Bertin and released in 2017. The film depicts Bertin's efforts, in response to a family history of bipolar disorder, to investigate parts of her father's prior life in Montserrat that she did not know about; she ultimately uncovers the revelations that her father was a cult leader who also suffered from bipolar disorder, and who had, unbeknownst to Bertin until making the film, also fathered at least 12 other children with four other women.

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Manic is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kalina Bertin and released in 2017. The film depicts Bertin's efforts, in response to a family history of bipolar disorder, to investigate parts of her father's prior life in Montserrat that she did not know about; she ultimately uncovers the revelations that her father was a cult leader who also suffered from bipolar disorder, and who had, unbeknownst to Bertin until making the film, also fathered at least 12 other children with four other women. The film premiered at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Awards When Daniel Cross won Hot Docs' Don Haig Award, he selected Bertin as the recipient of a $5,000 grant for emerging women documentary filmmakers. The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Editing in a Documentary (Anouk Deschênes). It was also a Prix Iris nominee for Best Documentary Film and Best Editing in a Documentary at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.

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