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Stephen McMillan and local film director
Bonnie MacRae about giving young males a voice in the face of Dundee’s male suicide crisis.
Having recently worked together on an award winning short film depicting the reality of male suicide in Dundee, young writer and director Bonnie MacRae and Dundee born and bred Outlaw King actor Stephen McMillan laugh when Bonnie says her dad thinks they could become the “Scorsese and De Niro of Dundee”!
But as the short film Mind Yersel features as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival from May 3, Stephen reveals that when Bonnie first sent him the script, which she wrote in reaction to the city being named Scotland’s ‘suicide capital’, it reduced him to tears.
Mind Yersel”, a short, three minute film written and directed by 22-year-old Dundonian
Bonnie MacRae, explores the devastating topic of male suicide in the city – which has the highest rate in Scotland.
It stars young Dundee actor
Stephen McMillan (Outlaw King, The North Water) and aimed to create something that would appropriately represent young people struggling in silence.
Dundonian accents on screen
Bonnie, a former pupil of Harris Academy who won a scholarship to the USA, says: “It was so important to me that the film fully represented those it was initially aimed at reaching.
“It’s not often you’ll hear Dundonian accents on screen.
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