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Working Like Crazy
Author(s): Gwynne Basen, Laura Sky
Publication Date: 1999
An estimated 85 percent of people labeled "mentally ill" are unemployed, and often viewed as incapable of working: hopeless, helpless, maybe dangerous besides. Working Like Crazy challenges these stereotypes. This is a fresh, engaging look at the struggles and victories of six former mental health patients. Though once labeled "unemployable," they now work in businesses run and staffed by other psychiatric survivors: places where they can make a...
Crisis Call
Author(s): Laura Sky
Publication Date: 2003
What happens when the boundaries between policing and mental health care disappear.... when the police become our new frontline health care workers? Crisis Call addresses a critical issue affecting the police, psychiatric survivors, legal experts, mental health workers and the public. The starting point for this unique documentary is the story of Edmond Yu, a psychiatric survivor in crisis who was shot and killed by Toronto police after a 1997 al...
Prescription for Addiction
Author(s): Laura Sky
Publication Date: 2005
Prescription for Addiction is a compelling documentary about the benefits and the health and social risks of prescription opiate use. The documentary's goal is to promote the healthy use of opiates and enhance community awareness of the issues surrounding opiate misuse and dependency. Opiate painkillers such as OxyContin, Percocet, Dilaudid, MS Contin, Vicodin and Tylenol 3 are now among the mostly widely prescribed drugs in North America with...
Extra Ordinary People
Author(s): Laura Sky
Publication Date: 2007
We often use argument and logic to convince others to change their minds about discrimination directed at people with mental health and addiction problems. But the people who live with that stigma can persuade us to change our attitudes through personal experiences of discrimination and oppression when they are shared with compassion and hope. This documentary is an example. Awareness and compassion are the kindling that ignites a spirit of ad...
Home Safe Calgary
Author(s): Laura Sky, Cathy Crowe
Publication Date: 2008
It is estimated that there are currently 22,500 children in Canada who are homeless.  Home Safe Calgary is the first of four documentaries from Sky Works that focus on children and families who experience poverty and homelessness. It reveals the contrast between the promise of Calgary’s booming economy and the vulnerability of those who seek a place in it - where even parents with decent-paying jobs are unable to put a roof over their family’s he...
Home Safe Toronto
Author(s): Laura Sky
Publication Date: 2011
HOME SAFE TORONTO is the second film in SkyWorks' Home Safe documentary series, which deals with how Canadian families with children live with the threat and the reality of homelessness.  It shows how the housing crisis in Canada is an expression of the increasing economic and job insecurity that has devastated the manufacturing sector in the Greater Toronto Area and throughout southern Ontario.  The film reveals the consequences of this “new eco...
Home Safe Hamilton
Author(s): Laura Sky
Publication Date: 2010
Home Safe Hamilton is the third film in SkyWorks' Home Safe documentary series, which deals with how Canadian families with children live with the threat and the reality of homelessness. The film examines systemic roots of homelessness as a consequence of economic restructuring, discrimination and displacement. It includes stories of steelworkers affected by industrial layoffs, high school students living in poverty, new Canadians and Aboriginal...