Some of us Welling­ton­istas make no bones about that fact that we suf­fer from a vari­ety of men­tal ill­ness­es, which is why we’re always pleased to sup­port peo­ple who are work­ing to sup­port the Men­tal Health Foun­da­tion of New Zealand. So we were real­ly encour­aged when we heard from Pete Bar­ton:

I am cur­rent­ly run­ning  a com­mu­ni­ty project to raise aware­ness of depres­sion and men­tal ill­ness in New Zealand and I would like to pro­mote a char­i­ty movie night on Tues­day 10th March.

Lars

Lars and the Real Girl will be screened at the Para­mount Cin­e­ma, Court­ney Place at 6.00 pm. I have some great spot and raf­fle prizes to give away includ­ing a $600 inter­is­lander fer­ry vouch­er.

Tick­et price is $20.00 which enters tick­et hold­ers into spot prize draw to win an inter­is­lander vouch­er. There are a num­ber of oth­er great prizes to be won from Bun­nings, Shoe Clin­ic Welling­ton, Bike Barn Welling­ton, Read­ing Cin­e­mas, Ben Lind Mas­sage Ther­a­py and Karori Sanc­tu­ary.

Pro­ceeds from the evening will go direct­ly to the Men­tal Health Foun­da­tion of New Zealand.

Our Dan said of Lars: “A love­ly, sweet film about accep­tance, love and judge­ment (lack of), Lars is anoth­er win­ner in a sum­mer of them. Gosling’s per­for­mance is a thing of won­der but it wouldn’t be half as suc­cess­ful with­out great work from Paul Schnei­der, Emi­ly Mor­timer and Patri­cia Clark­son to play off. Kudos to them all. Not to be missed.”

But even if you’ve seen it before, there’s plen­ty of good rea­son to go and see it again. Find out more about Pete’s fundrais­ing work here.