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Total Disaster

Armed with realistic bird puppets, trickster environmental activists pretend to be a giant oil company—staging a satirical press conference to introduce "RéHabitat," a plan to rescue animals from the East African Oil Pipeline by relocating them to “more sustainable” habitats. Using humor and mischief, they expose a deadly ecological disaster in a zany effort to help #StopEACOP.

  • Keil Orion Troisi
    Director
    Peace Pipeline, Human Resources, Mono Generation, The Yes Men Share the Safety
  • Molly Gore
    Director
  • Keil Orion Troisi
    Writer
  • Molly Gore
    Writer
  • The Yes Men
    Producer
  • Keil Orion Troisi
    Producer
  • Molly Gore
    Producer
  • Julien Bertrand
    Key Cast
    "Yohann Gavalé"
  • Chris Miega
    Key Cast
    "Ken Malonga"
  • Noa Soussan
    Key Cast
    "Flustered Intern"
  • Ilya Vett
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Toria Sterling
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Keil Orion Troisi
    Key Cast
    "Jeff Walburn"
  • Molly Gore
    Key Cast
    "Natalie Whiteman"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Environmental, Activism, Human Rights, Climate Change
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    English, French, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • San Francisco DocFest
    San Francisco
    United States
    June 1, 2022
    World premiere
  • River Film Festival
    Padua
    Italy
    June 7, 2022
    European premiere
  • Acampadoc
    La Villa de Los Santos
    Panama
    June 7, 2022
    Central American premiere
  • Southside Film Festival
    Bethlehem
    United States
    June 15, 2022
    Pennsylvania premiere
  • FECI Bogota
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    June 23, 2022
    South American premiere
  • Durban International
    Durban
    South Africa
    July 21, 2022
    African premiere
  • Bardolino Film Festival
    Verona
    Italy
    June 19, 2022
  • Kaş International Film Festival
    Kaş and Istanbul
    Turkey
    June 22, 2022
    Asian premiere
  • San Francisco Green Film Festival
    San Francisco
    United States
  • Italia Green Film Festival
    Rome
    Italy
  • Vagrant Film Festival
    Centre for Contemporary Art, Minsk
    Belarus
    June 23, 2022
  • Cine en las Montañas
    Salento, Filandia
    Colombia
    July 13, 2022
  • Just Film
    Birmingham
    United Kingdom
    July 3, 2022
    Best Short Documentary
  • Small Axe Radical
    Dorset
    United Kingdom
    July 15, 2022
  • SiciliAmbiente
    Sicily
    Italy
    July 11, 2022
  • BNP Paribas Green Film Festival
    Kraków
    Poland
    August 14, 2022
  • Realtime International
    Benin City
    Nigeria
    August 19, 2022
  • Vaasa Wildlife Film Festival
    Vaasa
    Finland
    September 28, 2022
    Scandinavian premiere
  • Sustainable Living Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    November 22, 2022
  • Babul Eco Film Fest

    India
  • Vagrant Traveling Film Fest
  • Southside Film Fest
    Bethlehem
    United States
  • Andaras Traveling Film Fest
  • Bridgeport
  • Cine en las Montanas

    Colombia
  • Filmets
    Bardalona
    Spain
  • All Living Things

    India
  • Festiver

    Colombia
  • Black Rock City
    Burning Man
  • Festival de Cine Verde de Barichara

    Colombia
  • Greenpoint Film Fest
    Brooklyn
  • New York State Film Fest
    Albany
  • Out of Bounds
    Puglia
    Italy
  • Oil Valley
    Pittsburgh
  • Barcelona Short Film Fest

    Spain
  • Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental
    Mexico City
  • Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos
    Mexico City
  • Social Justice Film Fest
    Seattle
  • Kursaal San Sebastien

    Spain
    Best Documentary
  • Lane Docfest
  • Lost River
  • Menorca Docfest
  • Bozcaada Festival of Ecological Documentary
  • Buffalo International
  • Astoria Film Fest
  • Queen City
  • Sustainable Living Film Fest
    Istanbul
  • Soria International Short
  • Sun Child

    Armenia
    Best Short Doc
  • Cine Eco Seia

    Portugal
    Best Short Doc
  • Workers Unite
    New York
  • Terra Gollut
  • Ireland Wildlife Film Festival
  • Fresh Coast
  • Eastern Nigeria Film Fest
  • International Nature Image Festival
  • Film Maudit
    Santa Monica
  • Frozen River
  • Cinema Verde
  • Equinox Mountain
  • Greenmotions
  • Inheritance
    UK broadcast
  • Kalakari
  • Mabig

    Germany
  • Portland Eco Film Fest
  • Better World Film Festival

    Germany
    Sunrise Award
Director Biography - Keil Orion Troisi, Molly Gore

Keil has been a core member of culture-jamming group The Yes Men for a decade. He is a NYFA Fellow in Screenwriting-Playwriting. Recent feature "I Was a Teenage Horror Movie!" remixes VHS footage from childhood, "Total Disaster" played over 50 festivals and won the David Imoh Sunday Social Justice Prize at Realtime Nigeria. He directed corporate-horror feature "Human Resources" (2015), and produced and co-wrote "Peace Pipeline" which won Best Doc at Dallas VideoFest, ND Human Rights, Wolf Tree, Skoden, and more. His work mixes humor, horror, and story-centered mischief.

Molly Gore is a multimedia artist, journalist, and culture jammer who works at the intersection of mischief and social change. She is the co-founder of culture jamming activist collective The Fixers, co-founder of underground satirical food magazine Hair of the Dog, and former director of the improvisational surrealist street theater team The Salted Codpiece.

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