About Grey Diaries

The idea began as a poem about grief, then expanded to a short movie, and from there many ideas have been birthed.  The poem is complete and the short movie has entered pre-production stage. The aim is to breakdown grief for better understanding in society. Grey Diaries gives room for open, honest and emotional conversations about loss and recovery.

It sometimes feels like there's an unspoken rule that grief must be done in private. We all have different reactions to grief, but in those differences, there are many of us that act the same - but we can only know when we can freely grieve. The pretences of being strong, and having it all together and knowing exactly what to do or say need to end. Grief is not a taboo, it's not something we deposit and come back to, it becomes are part of us. How we deal wIth it, how we cope and how we move forward all need to be shared.

Grief presents itself in different capacities to different personalities. It's therefore impossible to capture grief from multiple perspectives to just my own experiences. In addition, the last person I grieved died in 2015. While I was close, there was a way in which I felt like I wasn't close enough. So I decided to speak to others and hear their stories and tap into the experiences of others and truly understanding their grief, what they felt then, and what they feel now, changes in mindsets, thoughts and behaviours and basically the human reaction to grief.