Filmmaker Statement

80% of all suicides are men and 49% of men feel more depressed than they admit to others. It’s been historically taboo for men to speak about their emotional struggles and mental health. Personally, I've struggled with anxiety and self-doubt for the past 25 years of my life. Like many men, I kept this to myself until recently. As a commercial filmmaker and entrepreneur, I wanted to do something that had never been done before, in order to inspire men to feel confident in sharing their own mental health journey. The idea was to create a short film involving swimming underneath an iceberg in Greenland wearing only a pair of Sheath Underwear -- no oxygen tank, no mask and no wetsuit. All while being exposed to the coldest water on Earth at 28° F. I’ve always had the impression that I needed to hide my struggles below the surface in order to appear “a man”. The first few months of the pandemic caused me to collapse and sink into the darkest 12-month period of my life under the pressures