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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Pedro Orrego and Michelle Melles are Toronto-based producers, directors, story editors and writers. Fierce believers that the personal is in creative dialogue with the political, they helped to create and launch the critically-acclaimed and Gemini-award/Canadian Screen Award winning docuseries SexTV (1998-2008). This internationally-syndicated docuseries was the first of its kind in North America and explored sexuality and gender around the world in an intelligent, thought-provoking and multidimensional way.
In 2018, they joined forces once again to create
Parallel Vision Productions.
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Michelle Melles is director, writer and producer with a background in independent documentary media, broadcast television production, and magazine journalism. She has worked for some of the top television shows in Canada, has written for BUST Magazine, the Globe and Mail, and is a regular contributor for the online magazine Find Your Pleasure. She will receive her Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from Ryerson University (Summa cum laude) in 2021 where she created her upcoming personal documentary film, “Drunk on Too Much Life.” She received the Social Sciences Humanities Grant (SSHRC) for her work on transformative mental health care in documentary media. She is a graduate (with high distinction) from the University of Toronto where she focussed on women & gender in history and political theory.
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Pedro Orrego is an award-winning story editor, director, and musician who has worked for some of the most prominent production companies and networks in Canada and the U.S.A. His short documentary film “Getting Wood” premiered at Hot Docs in 2005 and along with Michelle, their feature documentary film “Drunk on Too Much Film” will be released in the summer of 2021. He is a University of Toronto graduate where he studied anthropology and film.
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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
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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
