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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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Jan
2017

Saida Saetgareeva

The January 2017 Art With Impact short film competition winner aims to increase clarity around the mental illness experience, evoke empathy towards people who undergo depression as well as to encourage affected individuals to break the silence and sp...

Dec
2016

Victor O'Frank

A perfect state of mind can be achieved in so many ways, one of which is finding ones own purpose. Purpose tells the tale of a man's struggle with depression who found true meaning in a place he least expected.

Nov
2016

Ashlen Harkness

'Core.' is an empathetic exploration of the internal experience and external display of Anxiety and Panic. The film is a piece of dance film, it utilises the bodies of three Contemporary/Ballet trained dancers to show and recreate the physical experi...

Oct
2016

Brian A. Ross

An inspiring comedic-drama, "The Letter" follows a heartbroken New Yorker struggling with depression who finds the writing of his suicide letter punctuated by a chance meeting with a mysterious woma...

Sep
2016

Dustin Lowman

A man fights his battle with PTSD. Only after his breaking point does a moment of clarity come, and he discovers help is there and it's closer than he thinks.

Aug
2016

Steve Bastoni

An unexpected act of kindness changes a man's trajectory.

Jun
2016

I Am Borderline: Self-Regulation Project

Betsy Usher

This is a film was created for the Wright Institute Los Angeles: Self-Regulation Project. It's goal is to help explain what it feels like to have Borderline Personality Disorder.

May
2016

A FILM ABOUT LOVE

Dale John Allen

‘A Film About Love’ depicts a story of friendship, adventure, love and loss, all entwined to create my own personal story of coming to terms with a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder.

Apr
2016

ADHD – Do you really have it?

Cameron Voris and Chris Bollinger

ADHD follows the experience of a man as he constantly derailed by his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) throughout the course of an afternoon.

Mar
2016

Way Up, Way Down

Nader Ibrahim, Jay Farnie

Sam was the perfect student, when suddenly his life went off the rails. Through a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, he found the way between the highs and lows.

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