Mental health issues can be difficult to talk about openly even in the most ideal settings, but it often helps in settings that promote comfortable intimacy, it can be much easier. One such place is the Hollywood Beauty Salon, a beauty parlor that happens to be part of the NHS Germantown Recovery Community, a Philadelphia non-profit mental health program administered by NHS Human Services.

Read more on the Hollywood Beauty Salon movie from Vikram Murthion on IndieWire.com.

 


 

Hollywood Beauty Salon is a colorful and inspiring documentary about surviving mental illness and violence, struggling with loss, finding courage for recovery, and discovering the beauty inside each one of us.