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The OLIVE Film Collection

OLIVE stands for the Online Library of Interactive Video and Engagement and is the world’s most diverse collection of short films about mental health issues. The library grows each month through our monthly short film competition, and each year through our Voices With Impact short film production grants.

We share these films as educational resources. As works of art, they can elicit strong responses. Please take care of yourself while watching these films! We’ve created these guides as resources for you when watching the OLIVE films alone, with friends, with your children and/or with your students.

These films are provided here for personal viewing or facilitation in small groups. If you want to use these in more structured programs, please fill out this form for official use.

Tips and Guidelines for Watching OLIVE Alone or With Friends / Guía y Sugerencias para Ver OLIVE Solo o Con Amigos

Tips and Guidelines for Watching OLIVE With Your Students or Children / Guía y Sugerencias para Ver OLIVE Con Sus Estudiantes o Hijos

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Feb
2023

Supercalifragilistic

By Randy Kelly

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Feb
2019

Rebecca Chiafullo

"Faded" is an alternative, narrative short film about living with depression, portraying the struggle of doing simple daily tasks that most of us take for granted. Rebecca, the filmmaker, encourages people who are struggling with depression to hold o...

Nov
2018

Lou de Estores + Derreck Roemer

This animated true story, set in a jail, pits the blue suits against the brown suits and calls into question the true definition of "crazy".

Oct
2018

Touch Me Don’t Touch Me

Lucie Rachel

Touch Me Don't Touch Me shows conflicting feelings of fear and desire fuel an energetic conversation about intimacy and trauma through the medium of contact movement.

Sep
2018

Samuel León

A recovering painter discovers a long forgotten stash of pills buried beneath her paintbrushes. Suddenly, she cannot shake visions of the alcohol and drugs that used to haunt her. Unable to escape them, reality blurs as temptation calls out to her. ...

Aug
2018

Anjola Coker

A young African-American girl faces the truth that black lives are a target of unjust killings by a system that fails to protect them. It's her reality that any day, she can be next.

Jul
2018

A Short Film About Anxiety

Lily Rose Thomas + Stephen Isaac-Wilson

Anxiety is the world’s most common mental health condition, but something few candidly speak about. Personal and intimate, the contributors talk via smartphones about their relationships with anxiety in their place of comfort, mixed with imagery an...

Jun
2018

Julie Bayer Salzman + Josh Salzman

"Release" is an experiential film about stress and anxiety as experienced by middle-school kids, and offers a basic lesson in mindful breathing as an antidote.

Mar
2018

Kim Huynh

In this short documentary a queer, nonbinary, Vietnamese filmmaker reflects on staying grounded and empowered through battles with suicidal depression and PTSD.

Feb
2018

Little Elizabeth

Elizabeth Ayiku

A woman with childhood trauma takes a compassionate journey in order to heal herself.

Jan
2018

Autobiography of a Body

Randy Kelly

Autobiography of a Body is a Cinepoem created by the spoken-word poet Daniel Mark Patterson (aka DMP) and Randy Kelly. It is a poem about growing up, growing into yourself and the sometimes long, lonely road to self-acceptance.

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