Voices With Impact Mental Health Shorts

Past Grant Winning Films

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8 films in package
PLANT PEOPLE
Phoebe is a supermarket cashier who is the lone human in a world of plant people.
Fortune Cookie
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
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
Fighter asks the tough, awkward, and infrequent questions about mental health to three generations of firefighters.
Out Beyond
A bathroom witnesses a suppressed teenager manifesting his ambitions and his inner self.
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
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