Film When

When Disaster Strikes is a documentary television series that exposes the inside human drama of disaster recovery. Produced by Parallax Film Productions, the show has aired on Discovery Channel US FOX Broadcasting, International and History Television in Canada. This six-part series profiles the victims, the disaster, and the backbreaking work it takes to set things right, exploring the human story behind the headlines. When Disaster Strikes covers fires, floods, hurricanes, landslides, sewage-filled basements – every situation is different and requires a creative, no-nonsense plan. The only thing common to the disasters are emotionally devastated victims.

A stalled actress mired in the monotony of family life heads back to her hometown to care for her ailing father, only to be drawn back into a dysfunctional relationship with her sisters, and tempted by the first love that got away.

A David O'Reilly short film that opened for the 2009 Pictoplasma Conference.

Twenty-something Kate and Jeremy contemplate love and commitment in the face of an approaching separation.

In the midst of heartbreak and self implosion, a lapsed writer turned party girl must learn what it truly means to face her pain when she's hunted by a subterranean mother and its brood.

Michael was a ballet prodigy with a stellar career ahead of him. He transformed into a Russian ballet instructor named Madame Olga as a way to both embrace himself as an artist and reconcile with the trauma from his past.

Four individuals struggle to transport enough healthy bees to California’s Central Valley to pollinate the almond orchards.

A man must continue smiling through Frank Sinatra’s “When You’re Smiling.”

Jackie has dementia. She also has a pact, carefully crafted with her two daughters, for how to depart on her own terms when the time comes. Well, the night has arrived, the girls have gathered, the plan is in motion—but Jackie forgot the pact. Shoot Me When… is a heartfelt and humorous exploration of love, responsibility, and finding joy in life’s challenges.

"When Voices Rise..." tells the important, but little-known story of dismantling segregation in the polite society that was Bermuda in the 1950s. Working in secret, the Progressive Group organized the 1959 Theatre Boycott to end segregation in movie theatres in Hamilton. Context is provided by those who protested against segregation and the limited franchise earlier in Bermuda by authoring a "Secret Document" that analyzed the social problems of the island. The film also features a rare interview conducted in London, England with Kingsley Tweed-a powerful, public figure during the boycott that changed the island forever. -- Chris Campbell

"The last piece I made as the Arts Council's video artist in residence at Brighton Polytechnic. In it, I attempt to hold back time by clicking my fingers; or perhaps I am cueing the next clip. It was the beginning for me of a theme which I am still concerned with in my current work. There is narrative in the form of a running joke and there is an implied drama, running alongside a very matter of fact presentation of my recent video lecture trip across Canada." – Neil Armstrong

When a young Hispanic boy is left home alone with his 8 year old sister for the first time, he must find her when she goes missing in their unwelcoming trailer park community.

Tyler is a young man caught somewhere outside of his own reality, stuck on his own twisted, trauma-induced path.

Malcolm Le Grice - 3D.

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, often musically kissed portraits (which he later dubbed “blues cinema”) a personal, artisanal quality. - Film Society of Lincoln Center. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

A grandmother, a mother, daughters. Despite living in one house, they exchanged letters. The first one was written in 1994, the last one 15 years later. In these letters, the women share their deepest feelings and insecurities. This autobiographical essay also takes the form of a letter. Its author revives the lively letter exchange through videos recorded on her mobile phone and her own animations. It is not only a dialogue of the women in the family, but also of the past and the present, of people and their images.