![]() Greg is recognized as a national leader in mental health recovery and has received awards for his work by the nation's leading mental health organizations including SAMHSA (Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration), The National Council for Behavioral Health, National Federation of Families of Children's Mental Health and Mental Health America. For the last 11 years, he has been serving as the national youth empowerment director for Magellan Health, leading MY LIFE one of the nation's premier youth programs focused on empowering young people with mental health, substance abuse, and foster care challenges, a program he created. Greg's film career was diverted by mental illness and drug addiction and after finding personal recovery he became committed to helping others do the same. He later returned home to New Orleans to co-found the video production company Verge Entertainment where he produced and directed numerous film and video projects including the TV pilot "Tribe TV," which received a regional Emmy Award "Heroin the Real Deal," a heroin prevention film featuring surviving members of the band Sublime and "Go Cat Go," an EPK for music legend Carl Perkins. He also worked on numerous music videos, commercials and live shows for VH1 and MTV. He immediately began working on a variety of projects including feature films OutBreak - starring Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding and Morgan Freeman, as well as Mirage - starring Sean Young and Edward James Almos. Greg started chasing his film career in 1993 when he moved to Hollywood after college. The film has had over 500 screenings worldwide with over 40,000 attendees, and will be released on DVD and online summer of 2019. Most Recently Greg co-directed and co-produced the award-winning feature-length documentary, Suicide The Ripple Effect which was released in theaters in March 2018. In addition to Emma's inspiring story of recovery, the film also shares the stories of three remarkable young people who didn't survive their attempts and we learn first hand from their families, friends, schools, communities and suicide prevention experts about the true devastation suicide has on those who are left behind.įor more information about "“MY ASCENSION” please visit: Although extremely tragic, the incident helped her find God and propelled her on a mission to use her painful experience and amazing ongoing recovery to help others find hope while shining more light on the suicide epidemic that is taking so many lives. A series of miracles saved her life, but a self-inflicted gunshot wound resulted in a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed. She was a stunning varsity cheerleader with a supportive family and lots of friends, but on the inside she was filled with darkness, depression and anxiety, and had never told a soul about it. It was the summer before her senior year of high school and on the outside her life looked perfect. On JEmma Benoit decided her life wasn’t worth living anymore.
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