Private Project

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 Orion Troisi has been a core member of culture-jamming group The Yes Men for over a decade. He wrote and directed the corporate-horror feature "Human Resources" (2015), shorts "Mono Generation" (2017) and “Cicada” (2022), and produced and co-wrote "Peace Pipeline" (2021), a MAP Fund awarded performance film opposing Line 3, which won Best Documentary Short at Dallas VideoFest, North Dakota Human Rights, Wolf Tree, Jim Thorpe, and Skoden fests. In 2019 he was a NYFA Fellow in Screenwriting-Playwriting.

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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