The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will bring the award-winning documentary “Holden On” — about a high school student with mental illness — and its filmmaker to campus next week.

The story of Holden Layfield, a gregarious teen with a secret mental illness, will be shown at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Bromeley Family Theater in Blaisdell Hall. A question-and-answer session with filmmaker Tamlin Hall and local mental health professionals will follow. Cost is $5 for adults and free for all students.

“Holden On” is based on Hall’s childhood friend Layfield.

“Growing up, I was bullied for being overweight,” Hall said. “Holden Layfield was one of the only students at my school who treated me like a human being instead of a punching bag. Holden’s humanity shined until the day he took his life.”

As Hall looked into his friend’s death by suicide, he discovered Layfield had been hiding a mental illness that led him from being a popular Georgian football player with a bright future to a lost, self-medicating prophet.

The film portrays the complexity of mental illness and suicide in teens, offers insight to prevention, and opens the door to conversation about this difficult, but critical, community concern.

The film received awards for best director and best actor for Matthew Fahey at the Breckenridge Film Festival and Best Feature Audience Award at the Atlanta Film Festival, Dances with Films, and Macon Film Festival.

For more information, visit www.iamholdenon.org.

The presentation of “Holden On” is part of the On Screen/In Person film series this year at Pitt-Bradford. On Screen/In Person is a program of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts.

The next film in the series will be “Tyrus” at 7 p.m. Nov. 2. It is an award-winning documentary about the life, art and enduring impact of American painter and Disney legend, Tyrus Wong.