BBFF2026 Meet the Filmmaker: Shannon Harvey

When journalist/filmmaker Shannon Harvey set out to understand why mental illness is rising among young people, she found a more confronting question: what if much of this suffering could be prevented? Raising Superheroes investigates that question through worldwide research, building an evidence-based case for prevention and for changing the environments in which children grow up.

Ahead of the film's BBFF2026 screening, Shannon talks to us about refusing the usual crisis narrative, the moment that changed the film, and why knowing the evidence was no longer enough.