Bangor, Maine · 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Healing is a human right.

We challenge mental health stigma in Maine through documentary film, community, and trauma-informed care.

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InhuMAINE · Award-winning documentary

Official Selection, Maine International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection, Montreal Independent Film Festival 2026 Official Selection, Monadnock International Film Festival 2026 Winner, Bangkok Movie Awards 2026

Impact · 2025–2026

12Screenings & selections
7Communities reached
5Festivals & awards
3CEUs per screening

Screened at Maine International Film Festival · Montreal Independent Film Festival · Husson University · Thomas College · University of Maine Presque Isle · Eastern Maine Community College

Our mission

Stigma — not a lack of compassion — is the biggest barrier to healing. We replace judgment with understanding.

Founded by clinicians, advocates & people in long-term recoveryEIN 99-0970707Tax-exempt since 2024

Why this matters

A humanitarian crisis, close to home.

Homelessness, addiction, and mental illness are not separate problems. They meet on the same streets, often in the same people. InhuMAINE was filmed in Bangor to show what that looks like up close.

745,652People homeless in the U.S. on one night, January 2025
155,750Chronically homeless, the highest on record
2,413Homeless in Maine in 2025, up 14.6% since 2019
Read: Homelessness is a humanitarian crisis →

Sources: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2025 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report; National Alliance to End Homelessness, Maine 2025 Point-in-Time fact sheet.

Three threads, one common ground.

Care, community, and art are not separate missions — they are one continuous act of seeing people fully.

01

We document

Documentary film that puts a human face on Maine’s mental health and homelessness crisis.

The film
02

We convene

Free screenings, panels, and honest public conversation across Maine and the Northeast.

Screenings
03

We connect

Free, confidential help for Mainers: 988, the Maine Crisis Line, NAMI Maine, and 211.

Resources
Winter encampment in Bangor, Maine, from the documentary InhuMAINE

Feature documentary · 2024

InhuMAINE

Nineteen months in Bangor. The human stories behind Maine’s homelessness and mental health crisis — told by the people living it.

  • Runtime78 minutes
  • DirectorRogan O’Donnell, MS
  • PremiereMaine International Film Festival
  • Continuing ed3 CEUs · Husson University
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988Suicide & Crisis Lifeline · call or text, 24/7 1-888-568-1112Maine Crisis Line NAMI Maine1-800-464-5767 · support & referrals 211Housing, food & treatment in Maine

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