# @drewpeterski on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C_0wOPTuSaB
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- **Posted:** 2024-09-12T16:45:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Drew Petersen (@drewpeterski) — https://gondola.cc/drewpeterski

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Winner, winner, chicken dinner! 

Last weekend, Feel It All won the alivefilmchallenge (& a sick hand-cut, hand-made granite trophy!) as part of the winterparkfilmfestival. I’m humbled and stoked to win, and I’m even more so inspired for the future of mental health advocacy through storytelling. 

Massive thanks and respect to connornelson.dop and joshfinbow for starting the Alive Film Challenge. It’s a competition (more like an uplifting conglomeration?) of sorts for films that directly address mental health, suicide, addiction, and recovery. I love that—especially that it’s about addressing all of this “head-on” through telling stories. Obviously, I too believe that direct approach is what moves the needle. And on top of that, it’s part of the winterparkfilmfestival that was super fun and felt very Colorado. 

At times, it’s felt like talking about mental health and suicide publicly has put me on an island within my community. But these guys and Alive prove that’s not the case. There are more and more of us doing this work and believing in the future it will create. I showed up to support what they’re doing and they ended up supporting me. That’s the point, right? To lift each other up and elevate the mental health conversation as a whole. 

Thanks to my main collaborators reelmotion and tylerhboyd for creating our film together. Thanks to everyone else who contributed. Thanks to the film’s sponsors, uchealth, mountaingazette, & bestdaybrewing, who supported the project. Thanks to every single person who supported the film through Kickstarter to make it a reality. And thanks to anyone who’s watched, shared, and believed in all of this. 

Oh yeah, and this win comes with a cash money grant for my/our next project! For now and the immediate future, I’m focused on growing the impact of Feel It All. Beyond that? Not sure, but I promise y’all this grant will further the mission. 

🙏🩷🤙

#FeelItAllFilm
Supported by uchealth with additional support by mountaingazette & bestdaybrewing

📷: yo_bridge 

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #skiing #running #ultrarunning #film #filmfestivals

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