PsyAware is very proud to be the Executive Producer of ‘Psychedelic Chronicles’, a documentary feature portraying the dramatic re-emergence of the psychedelic movement in the West over the last five years, and the collision of indigenous practice, the modern mental health crisis and western capitalism.

The film follows the lives and challenges of advocates across the world, involved in the rebirth of the movement - academics, therapists, patients, practitioners, and recreational users - all to provide a broad understanding of this controversial field and the crucial role of psychedelic substances, plants and mushrooms in human culture.

The project focuses on the work of many amazing individuals over half a decade of incredible change - including clinical psychologist Dr Rosalind Watts, the former lead clinician on the Imperial College London Psilocybin for Depression study (Psilodep2); Leonie Schneider, a former patient on the Psilodep 2 study; racial equality and LGBTQ+ activist, Camille Barton; psychedelic facilitator Akua Ofosuhene, who shares her story of extracting her son from a county-lines gang, with the help of psychedelics, and the Ayahuasca researcher Benjamin Mudge, who focused on treating bipolar disorder.

With the decriminalization of psilocybin and other plant medicines across America and Europe, as well as psychedelics’ feature in mainstream media and popular culture, ‘Psychedelic Chronicles’ is riding a wave of global change, advocating for progressive drug reform. Psychedelics have been identified as a key tool for relieving many different psychological and physical ailments - and slowly, scientific and medical institutions are changing - but to whose benefit?

In a hyper-consumerist society dominated by large pharmaceutical companies, venture capitalists, silicon valley tech-bros and billionaire king-makers, it is this project’s aim to represent an unbiased account of the history and a critique of its Eurocentrism, the current corporatised reality, and future trajectories of the movement, through the lens of those most affected by the war on drugs - BIPOC, LGBTQI2S+ and disabled peoples.

We call on our community and supporters to help us finish and distribute this film, to act as both a historical document, an academic reference tool and a platform for responsible psychedelic advocacy.