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Voices With Impact Mental Health Shorts

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Fighter asks the tough, awkward, and infrequent questions about mental health to three generations of firefighters. Home movies and impromptu conversations are woven into interviews in this deeply personal reflection on intergenerational connection, trauma and coping, and how expectations of masculinity in firefighting have an impact on mental health.

Year
2020
Runtime
5 minutes
Country
Canada

Director
Meagan Brown
Producer
Graeme Jokic
Sound Design
Josh Fagen

8 films in package

Phoebe is a supermarket cashier who is the lone human in a world of plant people.

Fortune Cookie is a no-dialogue stop-motion experimental short expressing the burnout feeling of being consumed by an authority’s endless needs and being unappreciated and manipulated for a prolonged period.

Once Upon A Time

Through the lens of a fairytale, she presents to her class, a young girl shares the reality of her life living with an alcoholic parent.

The Four Noble Truths

Exploring the relationship between religion and mental health, we see Maeta's journey with schizophrenia, sexuality and his loving family.

Blue Garden is a 5 minute hybrid/mixed-media film that retells the history of a Japanese Canadian fisherman who was forced to work on a tomato farm during the WW2 internment.

Beyond the Soil

Beyond the Soil explores the emotional impact of climate change on farmers and ranchers who are on the frontlines of Colorado's megadrought in the Rocky Mountain West.

Fighter asks the tough, awkward, and infrequent questions about mental health to three generations of firefighters.

A bathroom witnesses a suppressed teenager manifesting his ambitions and his inner self.

C$0After unlocking, you'll have 4 days 21 hours to start watching. Once you begin, you'll have 1 month 29 days to finish watching. Need help?

Fighter asks the tough, awkward, and infrequent questions about mental health to three generations of firefighters. Home movies and impromptu conversations are woven into interviews in this deeply personal reflection on intergenerational connection, trauma and coping, and how expectations of masculinity in firefighting have an impact on mental health.

Year
2020
Runtime
5 minutes
Country
Canada

Director
Meagan Brown
Producer
Graeme Jokic
Sound Design
Josh Fagen