Beautiful Souls

With one in seven children aged 4 to 17 in our country diagnosed with mental disorders, this ‘social issue’ is a way of life for over 800,000 Australian children. Becca’s journey has been a mirror of the struggles and challenges facing countless parents of neurodiverse children. In Beautiful Souls, we suggest that it may be time to stop asking what’s wrong with our children, and start asking what’s wrong with the systems.

While telling the intimate stories of individual children and their families, Beautiful Souls exposes five broader issues within the mental illness space:

– The lack of support for families
– The amount of misinformation circulating creating overwhelmed and lost families
– The lack of knowledge and resources leading to constraints and failures in the education system
– The insecurity of ‘future’ dreams for neurodiverse children
– The rise of co-morbid disorders such as anxiety in children diagnosed with ADHD & Autism

A visually stunning, and groundbreaking masterpiece, Beautiful Souls is much more than a heartwarming, true story of love, resilience, and hope for humanity. Using the magnificent backdrop of the Northern Rivers, NSW in Australia, with striking animation from Victor Hugo, and hand selected music from world renowned artists, this film is a full, multi-sensory experience leaving a positive, everlasting, emotional impact on the audience.

Short Term Outcomes:

– Help alleviate parents’ anxiety, overwhelm, and feeling alone on their journey
– Bringing awareness to how mental health is diagnosed, treated, and any associated, significant, long term side effects
– Bring awareness to the major mental health crisis and look at potential ways of preventing and treating it
– For communities to accept and embrace these beautiful families, who have previously felt shamed and isolated

Long Term Outcomes:

– Changing policies associated with the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders
– Introduction of Government programmes in conscious parenting for expectant parents
– Provide neurodiverse children with an alternative to traditional mainstream schooling

We are in the process of gathering partners and stakeholders who will be selected for their like-minded values to ensure the overall mission and vision of the film is achieved.

As a social impact film, we will be engaging with charitable partners to amplify their causes.

We will also be developing a cohort of ambassadors and influencers who will support the film’s main themes through their communities and social media channels, leading up to and after the film’s release.

If you are interested in becoming one of our partners or ambassadors, please use the Contact Filmmaker link above in the black box, next to the Beautiful Souls image.

After audiences view the documentary film, they will: 



– Discuss and share with their contacts
 and communities
– Learn new ways to manage and prevent their mental health challenges
– Sign up their support to the “mental wellness” impact campaign that follows

– Attend the film tours
– Medical professionals will examine and modify the way children are diagnosed and treated with mental health problems
– The results from the “social experiment” will help formulate new government policies and solutions to the challenges that come up throughout the film
– The research obtained whilst searching for the families that are participating in the film, will help organisations tailor-make their offerings to help more families now, and in the future