Parallel Vision Productions was founded by two award-winning writers and producers who share the same Vision — to make original, engaging and multi-dimensional nonfiction stories that challenge preconceived ideas and offer unique ways of perceiving the world.
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We start with an idea that we’re passionate about and our creative process flows from this central place. It’s about trust in ourselves, our team and having the determination to make our creative vision come to life.
We want to open minds to different ways of seeing and do our small share to help make our world a better place.
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Parallel Vision Productions (PVP) is a creatively motivated boutique production company that develops, produces and creates original, engaging and multi-dimensional nonfiction stories for the big and small screen. Toronto-based founders Michelle Melles & Pedro Orrego share the same vision: to create non-fiction films and stories that challenge preconceived ideas and offer unique ways of perceiving the world.
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Fierce believers that the personal is in dialogue with the political, together they helped to launch, produce and write the Gemini/Canadian Screen Award-winning and multiple Gemini/Canadian Screen Award-nominated documentary series SexTV for ten seasons. Their documentaries have been broadcast nationally, sold internationally and shown at international film festivals including Hot Docs. More recently, their short indie documentary “Grandmaster Moses” (2020) won Best Documentary at the Fighting Spirit Film Festival in London, UK and their music video “Ol Skool,” by the Canadian funk & soul legends Crack of Dawn, has already been streamed 450 thousand times on YouTube.
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Under their banner Parallel Vision Productions, Pedro story-edits for some of the most prominent television networks in Canada and the U.S.A including HGTV, History Channel, the Food Network, and the CBC. He currently is a story-editor for the Emmy nominated (2021) show Property Brothers – Forever Home.
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Michelle has written, produced, and directed for some of the top television shows in Canada including CTV’s Sci Fi Channel, Bravo, and Fashion Television and has created short films for digital creatives FITC on streaming platforms. She will be releasing her first feature-length personal documentary “Drunk on Too Much Life” (2021) which will soon be hitting the international festival circuit. Michelle received her MFA in Documentary Media from the School of Image Arts at RU (summa cum laude, 2021) and received a SSHRC for her research-creation work in transformative mental health care in documentary media (2020). Her short indie documentary “Kevin & Dave Go to Montreal” (2020) produced in the MFA program at the School of Image Arts at RU was seen in numerous international festivals including Sheffield and Tokyo International Short Film Festivals and Montreal, Venice, LA and Toronto Independent Film Festivals.
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Pedro studied anthropology and film at the University of Toronto. In his spare time, he creates original music.
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We seek to create powerful, thought-provoking works of non-fiction that challenge the norm.
LOGLINE: One of the most powerful martial artists in North America has a mystical experience that transforms him from a deadly fighting machine to a peaceful sage who believes he has the secret to healing the world.
SYNOPSIS: In GRANDMASTER MOSES we meet the colourful character Rob Moses, a renowned Kung Fu master who trained the Hollywood actor David Carradine (“Kill Bill, “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues”) until his untimely death in 2009. Moses trained with northern Shaolin monks and his students say he has superhuman strength. But Moses' entire life changed after a mystical experience on a beach in California. He became consumed with the idea of creating a new type of martial arts practice – one not used for self-defence or aggression but for inner healing and world peace.
Up to thirteen percent of the world's population hear voices and each one of these people has a story. This is the story about Kevin Healey, a Toronto-based Hearing Voices Support Worker who personifies his main voice Dave Umbongo as a cool-looking puppet with sunglasses. We follow Kevin and Dave on their way to Montreal for the World Hearing Voices Congress.
Kevin & Dave
Keep In Touch
Tel.: (416) 997-8756
TORONTO, CANADA
michelle@parallelvisionproductions.ca
pedroorrego3@gmail.com
Tel.: (416) 997-8756
toronto, canada
michelle@parallelvisionproductions.ca
Tel.: (416) 997-8756
toronto, canada
michelle@parallelvisionproductions.ca
