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If we met in Ottawa, this is the page I mentioned.
We make films about the people the world needs to know about.
We make films about the people the world needs to know about.
DFF Productions. Bowmanville, Ontario. Aaron Sheedy and Shane Morrison.
What I'm looking for
What I'm looking for
I'm a maker, not a vendor. What I want out of this Congress is things to build with people, and I'd rather come in at the beginning of something than be handed a finished brief to execute.
Where I think I'm useful: most humanist organizations have the argument nailed down and no story to carry it. Reason gets deployed where a story would have done the work. That gap is what I'd like to build in.
Podcasts - If you're starting one, or you have one that isn't holding people, I'd want in on the shape of it rather than the polish.
Narrative work - A piece that isn't landing and you can't say why. I can usually say why, and then help build the version that does.
Writing for children - Secular material for kids is thin, and the movement says so constantly without making much of it. I'd like to change that with somebody.
Secular values pieces - Short form, made together, for wherever you already have an audience.
Existing projects - The ones below are live. If any of them belongs in your country too, or you can see a way to strengthen one, that's a conversation I came here for.
Funding is a normal part of all of this and I'm glad to talk about it early rather than late. What I'm not is for hire. If what you need is someone to execute a brief, I'm the wrong person, and I'll happily point you toward the right one.
UNTIL MOURNING
I'm a nurse and a humanist. I have been in the MAiD conversation from inside the room rather than from the policy side of it, and what I work for is a dignified choice for people right up to the end.
Until Mourning is the drama that comes out of that. An hour-long series set in a hospice, in the one country that has fully normalized MAiD. Everyone in it is right. The care is the best in the country. And the one thing the patient actually needs is the thing that all of that care quietly takes from her. In development.
If you work in end-of-life policy, or you've watched this up close in your own family, I'd like an hour of your time.
ScapeGOAT
ScapeGOAT
A feature documentary about what happens when a country decides its trans kids are a political problem to be solved. Currently in post.
The argument of the film is that scapegoating isn't an accident of politics. It's a very old technique, and it works because it hands people something they badly want.
If this is arriving in your country too, I want to hear what it looks like there. If you program or distribute, let's talk.
WEST HILL UNITED
WEST HILL UNITED
I'm communications director at a United Church congregation outside Toronto that took the theism out and kept the community. What I do there isn't messaging. We make things: an audio drama currently in production, with video and documentary work alongside it. Recovering stories and ethos and bringing new life to them. And we share it with the world.
The finding is simple. A community that builds something together shows up for each other in a way that a community that only meets does not.
If your chapter or society wants to produce something rather than program something, I'll walk you through how we did it and what it cost.
THE STORY SERVICE
THE STORY SERVICE
Same reason as Until Mourning, at a much smaller scale. When someone dies, the family gets a eulogy, which is a story about a person told by people who are not that person. I'm building the alternative: the person tells it themselves, on camera, while they still can.
To Reach Aaron: (416) 629-0123 or aaron@sheedy.ca
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