Five Initial Docs for Help Us Save Lives TV Show
Documentary Sponsorship Program
SAAD- Suicide, Anxiety, and Depression
SAAD- Suicide, Anxiety, and Depression
These five docs represent the initial episodes of our upcoming TV series, "Help Us Save Lives". WE offer sponsor mention in the credits (as opposed to a commercial, which is more expensive). The film credit sponsorship is $100 Canadian for each one, or all five of the initial docs for $350 Canadian.
Be a "doc hero" and add your name, as an individual or company to the film credits of any or all of these docs with a credit card. Just message us and tell which doc or if you are sponsoring all of them.
SAAD- Suicide, Anxiety, and Depression
SAAD- Suicide, Anxiety, and Depression
SAAD- Suicide, Anxiety, and Depression
SAAD- Suicide Awareness, Anxiety, and Depression. Nearly everyone suffers from anxiety, depression, loneliness, and even suicidal thoughts. It is how those are processed in our brain that determines if we can manage them or if they overwhelm us. Our doc identifies signs of mental illness and a pathway toward mental wellness. Suicide IS preventable. See the link below and please sponsor this important doc.
Keeping Health Care Workers Safer!
SAAD- Suicide, Anxiety, and Depression
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
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Keeping Health Care Workers Safer!
Healthcare work is the HIGHEST risk job in Canada! Stats show 95% of ALL healthcare workers get assaulted, in some manner, in their careers. Workers in hospitals, care home, and especially in-home care are at risk; often alone and subject to sexual and physical assaults. Sponsor/product placement available. See the link below and please sponsor this important documentary today.
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
In this short one-minute trailer Michelle Novakowski, Executive Director and Mandy Glinsbockel, Community Engagement/Marketing Coordinator from Elizabeth Fry Society discuss how and why women are often reluctant to come forward about a sexual assault. They also explore the statistics of how many assaults are reported and more importantly, how many are NOT reported, and why they are not.
Ending Domestic Violence and Abuse
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Domestic Violence and Abuse
Help End Domestic Violence and Spousal Assault. Every six days a woman dies at the hands of her partner! They find themselves in dangerous relationships that are ruined by domestic violence against them, and their children. This video, translated into several languages, outlines steps we can take to keep women, men, and their children safe. See the link below and please sponsor this important documentary today.
Reducing Teen Speeding and Crashes
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Domestic Violence and Abuse
Speed Kills (Finished video approximately 30 to 60 minutes with sponsor information included). This is the initial 11-minute video we co-produced for the RCMP in Kelowna in 1996 to help teens slow down and live by avoiding speeding and vehicle crashes. This video will be updated and re-edited to include texting and distracted driving, as well as in-depth interviews of survivors of accidents and the lessons learned.
From Our Founder Raymond Frederick Oelrich
Help Us Save Lives is dedicated to enhancing, protecting, and saving lives through our multimedia projects. In partnership with our production company, Handcraft Film, we produce and distribute documentaries, docu-series TV shows, as well as upcoming feature films, slated for production in 2023, and beyond. See our current projects below.
The income earned from our related companies, along with our sponsor's and advertisers' support, helps fund these projects.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many millions of people have been and will continue to be, shut in their homes, OR have now decided not to return to the job they had. Many of these people are struggling to put food on the table, especially with the rise in food costs over the last year. This increases the risk of depression, spousal and domestic abuse, substance abuse, and even suicide. We have documentaries to address each of these issues and we are asking you to help sponsor one or more of our videos to help those in need. If you are interested in working with us, sponsoring a video, or creating your own, please contact me on the link below.
My Motive and Mission Statement
I was asked the backstory on the docu-series TV show I'm producing to help save lives. As a kid, I wanted to be like Superman; be there when kids were being bullied at school, or a woman or girl being raped, or police beating up someone or extorting free sex from a hooker instead of arresting her. (Worse yet, the police in a city in Southern California actually murdered many prostitutes and refused to convict the guilty). To see a GREAT movie, similar to this, watch "City of Lies" on Netflix about police involvement in the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
I longed to keep moms and kids safe from abusive men that beat the shit out of them, or bullies and gangs that ruled the neighborhoods in LA where I grew up in the 60s. I wanted to bring a blanket to someone dying of cold on a city street because the politicians were sleeping in warm homes and eating hot meals, trying to solve homelessness. I vowed to FIND a way to keep young people from killing themselves in cars, trying to show off, and driving too fast. (I did that doc!) I yearned to find a way to keep people alive that chose to die, simply because the pain of LIVING was worse than the choice of taking their own life. I wanted to help feed people that are dying of hunger or lack of clean water. (In Canada, where I live, some native people STILL have to boil their water to drink it). In some countries, there's no water or food, and millions of people die.
I realized I was NOT going to become Superman, Spiderman, or Jack Reacher; always there to save the day! I decided to do the next best thing! I realized to change HUMAN behavior you must change their attitude, habits, and actions! To do that you had to raise awareness, so they KNOW what they are about to do is wrong, and choose not to do to it. I believe we need the three "C's" to solve this; counseling, change, and correction. We need to provide all types of counseling to educate and change behavior, and if they CANNOT or WILL NOT change, then put them into a correction facility (jail, halfway house, home arrest, hospital, or prison) unless and until they DO CHANGE.
Our court system is broken! We give convicted felons a free ride, release them on OR (own recognizance) to appear in court, and hand out light sentences or suspended sentences, even in the most serious of crimes.There is no easy answer, no quick fix or silver bullet here. Money alone does not solve it. We need to find ways to replace anger with love, resentment, and hatred with compassion and understanding. I believe media can help; movies, TV shows, songs, interactive video games (non-violent ones), and music, can all help heal. That's the premise of my videos and TV show.If you wish to sponsor one or more of these or get involved, by all means, I can sure use the help! (Free cape provided!)
Help Us Save Lives TV Show
26 Episode Docu-Series
Help Us Save Lives, in partnership with our production company, Handcraft Film, will produce a TV series featuring 26 (or more) unscripted episodes per year. These will be a blend of drama, documentary and news stories, which we refer to as "Docu-Series". They will differ from traditional fundraising methods most documentaries are limited to, which is donations, sponsors or grants. These shows will include selected product placement, commercials AND sponsors, grants and loans to produce this series, which is in pre-production now. See the Slated link here. https://www.slated.com/films/988732
Selected Upcoming Docu-Series Episodes
SAAD- Suicide, Anxiety, and Depression
Ending Domestic Violence and Spousal Abuse
Ending Domestic Violence and Spousal Abuse
SAAD- Suicide Awareness, Anxiety, and Depression. Nearly everyone suffers from anxiety, depression, loneliness, and even suicidal thoughts. It is how those are processed in our brain that determines if we can manage them or if they overwhelm us. Our doc identifies signs of mental illness and a pathway toward mental wellness. Suicide IS p
SAAD- Suicide Awareness, Anxiety, and Depression. Nearly everyone suffers from anxiety, depression, loneliness, and even suicidal thoughts. It is how those are processed in our brain that determines if we can manage them or if they overwhelm us. Our doc identifies signs of mental illness and a pathway toward mental wellness. Suicide IS preventable. See the link below and please sponsor this important doc.
Ending Domestic Violence and Spousal Abuse
Ending Domestic Violence and Spousal Abuse
Ending Domestic Violence and Spousal Abuse
Help End Domestic Violence and Spousal Assault. Every six days a woman dies at the hands of her partner! They find themselves in dangerous relationships that are ruined by domestic violence against them, and their children. This video, translated into several languages, outlines steps we can take to keep women, men, and their children saf
Help End Domestic Violence and Spousal Assault. Every six days a woman dies at the hands of her partner! They find themselves in dangerous relationships that are ruined by domestic violence against them, and their children. This video, translated into several languages, outlines steps we can take to keep women, men, and their children safe. See the link below and please sponsor this important documentary today.
Finding Missing Indigenous Children
Ending Domestic Violence and Spousal Abuse
Finding Missing Indigenous Children
This short video shows the history of how Indigenous people were removed from their land, put into non-traditional homes, then allowed to return to their own land. Many of these children forced into residential schools were never seen or heard from again. Many are also buried in unmarked graves across Canada and the United States. They n
This short video shows the history of how Indigenous people were removed from their land, put into non-traditional homes, then allowed to return to their own land. Many of these children forced into residential schools were never seen or heard from again. Many are also buried in unmarked graves across Canada and the United States. They now pass on those stories from one generation to another. Remember, we are ALL immigrants unless we were born Indigenous.
Reducing Teen Automobile Crashes
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Finding Missing Indigenous Children
Speed Kills (Finished video approximately 30 to 60 minutes with sponsor information included). This is the initial 11-minute video we co-produced for the RCMP in Kelowna in 1996 to help teens slow down and live by avoiding speeding and vehicle crashes. This video will be updated with new information about texting and distracted drving, as
Speed Kills (Finished video approximately 30 to 60 minutes with sponsor information included). This is the initial 11-minute video we co-produced for the RCMP in Kelowna in 1996 to help teens slow down and live by avoiding speeding and vehicle crashes. This video will be updated with new information about texting and distracted drving, as well as in-depth interviews of survivors of accidents and the lessons learned.
Keeping Healthcare Workers Safe
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Keeping Health Care Workers Safer!
Healthcare work is the HIGHEST risk job in Canada! Stats show 95% of ALL healthcare workers get assaulted, in some manner, in their careers. Workers in hospitals, care home, and especially in-home care are at risk; often alone and subject to sexual and physical assaults. Sponsor/product placement availabl
Keeping Health Care Workers Safer!
Healthcare work is the HIGHEST risk job in Canada! Stats show 95% of ALL healthcare workers get assaulted, in some manner, in their careers. Workers in hospitals, care home, and especially in-home care are at risk; often alone and subject to sexual and physical assaults. Sponsor/product placement available. See the link below and please sponsor this important documentary today.
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
In this short one-minute trailer Michelle Novakowski, Executive Director and Mandy Glinsbockel, Community Engagement/Marketing Coordinator from Elizabeth Fry Society discuss with Keri-Lynn Turney how and why women are often reluctant to come forward about a sexual assault. They also explore the statistic
Ending Sexual Assault Against Women
In this short one-minute trailer Michelle Novakowski, Executive Director and Mandy Glinsbockel, Community Engagement/Marketing Coordinator from Elizabeth Fry Society discuss with Keri-Lynn Turney how and why women are often reluctant to come forward about a sexual assault. They also explore the statistics of how many assaults are reported and more importantly, how many are NOT reported, and why they are not.
Obesity: A Worldwide Epidemic
Police Brutality and Reform: Workplace Crisis
Police Brutality and Reform: Workplace Crisis
Obesity is a ticking time bomb in some countries, and non-existent in others! Globally 39% of the world's population was overweight or obese in 2016 but in the United States the figure rose to includes nearly 70% of all adults!
The main culprits are fat and sugar, which can become highly addictive! This episode explores the risks of excessive wekgiht gain and obesity and steps that can be taken to reduce our weight and ristk from this deadly situation.
Police Brutality and Reform: Workplace Crisis
Police Brutality and Reform: Workplace Crisis
Police Brutality and Reform: Workplace Crisis
The world has become an increasingly violent place and the very ones hired and entrusted to protect us are the ones causing the violence! In every city in the US, Canada and other countries the police often resort to brute force, beating, shooting, and killing people, often with criminal charges being laid AGAINST the officers that commit those offenses. This episode identifies changes that need to be made and how to hold the police forces accountable worldwide.
Real Solutions for Ending Homelessness
Police Brutality and Reform: Workplace Crisis
How Food Banks Help Feed Needy Families
Nearly every country in the world has a homeless population. Some countries such as Japan and Finland have successfully solved homelessness, while others have failed miserably! This episode identifies which countries and individual states have successful solutions and which ones do not. See more on this study on how each country helps with this problem. https://thehomemoreproject.org/blog/how-homelessness-is-handled-in-different-countries
How Food Banks Help Feed Needy Families
How Food Banks Help Feed Needy Families
How Food Banks Help Feed Needy Families
BC Food Banks Trailer. Over 100,000 people a month are served by 100 food banks in BC alone, with over 1.5 MILLION people using food banks across Canada each month! See this two-minute video for these clients. One unique opportunity we offer is your name, logo, and website ad the end of a short video or documentary like this one. These can range in length from a few seconds to two minutes. See the short video sample here and let us know if we can build one for you, your company, or your organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO4x5HttFUc&t=5s
Repeat Offenders- The Revolving Door
How Food Banks Help Feed Needy Families
Repeat Offenders- The Revolving Door
In most cities and countries the majority of crimes commited are by re-offending felons or convicted criminals. According to the Kelowna Capital News story (May 5, 2022) in December 2021, Kelowna RCMP identified 15 people who had 1,039 negative contacts with police in the first 11 months of the year.
One particular offender has generated 346 RCMP files since 2016 and received 29 convictions for property crime and assault offences.The individual has “no-go” conditions to 11 businesses but has been routinely released with conditions and continues to re-offend. https://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/kelowna-mayor-basran-backs-provincial-crackdown-on-prolific-offenders
Ending Sexual Assault in the Military
How Food Banks Help Feed Needy Families
Repeat Offenders- The Revolving Door
Women AND men are sexually assaulted in the military worldwide. This CNN report from Sept. 2021 outlines the details of one stidy. Consider that, according to a 2020 analysis by the DOD of active duty service members surveyed, women who were sexually harassed in 2018 were 12 times more likely to be sexually assaulted that year. Men who were sexually harassed were 42 times more likely to be sexually assaulted that year. LITTLE is being done to solve this golbal issue and we need to find solutions now! Here is the CNN report. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/opinions/military-sexual-assault-prevention-fixes-merryman/index.html
Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Suicide Prevention for Women and Teens
Suicide Awareness and Prevention
This is a one-minute video that shows statistics on suicide and depression (1:24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uGkOANRQ2E
Suicide Prevention for Men
Suicide Prevention for Women and Teens
Suicide Awareness and Prevention
An article for an upcoming doc on suicide risk in men. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190313-why-more-men-kill-themselves-than-women
Suicide Prevention for Women and Teens
Suicide Prevention for Women and Teens
Suicide Prevention for Women and Teens
A young woman finds herself on a bridge overlooking a river. She is contemplating ending her life but sees her future with love, a husband and their child, and chooses to keep living. All of us feel pain and depression at some time in our lifetime. Choose life! See her choices in this 60-second video. https://youtu.be/D-cuQcLhnk4
PSA on Violence Against Women
PSA on Violence Against Women
Suicide Prevention for Women and Teens
This is a ten-second short video called, The LastDance, a short PSA about a woman that was assaulted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJf1GEZRf5Y
Indigenous Films
PSA on Violence Against Women
Family and Youth Videos
This short video shows the history of how Indigenous people were removed from their land, put into non-traditional homes, then allowed to return to their own land. They now pass on those stories from one generation to another. Remember, we are ALL immigrants unless we were born Indigenous.
Family and Youth Videos
PSA on Violence Against Women
Family and Youth Videos
We create a wide variety of videos but none are more important than ones on becoming a better parent and father.
A five-minute video our Founder Raymond Frederick Oelrich filmed about Fathers Day and how much it means to be a father and ways to become a better father to our children.
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