Extras | Behind the Scenes

DOP Stefan Randstrom captures the moment Kay Cossar and her husband perform at the local senior’s home in Burgeo, Newfoundland, in January 2017.

Producer Kevin O’Keefe and Editor Bill Towgood work together in the edit suite putting together the final touches on Unnatural Disasters.

Producer Kevin O’Keefe and DOP Stefan Randstrom interview LGBT activist Elijah Michel in a church in Auckland, New Zealand, March 2017.

Narrator Sook-Yin Lee in studio recording narration for Unnatural Disasters, June 2017.

New Orleans drag performer Rikki Redd gets her nails done, December 2016.

Unnatural Disasters Producer Kevin O’Keefe, DOP Stefan Randstrom, Sound Recordist Kris Thompson, with subjects Elijah Michel & Jim Marjoram in Auckland, New Zealand, in March, 2017.

WHIV radio host Dr. MarkAlain Dery hosts his weekly radio show, December 2016.

DOP Kyle McGregor captures a sombre moment at the Katrina memorial in New Orleans, December 2016.

DOP Stefan Randstrom & Sound Recordist Roudie Rigaud Marcellin interview Anderson Estimphil in front of the still-collapsed cathedral in the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in February, 2017.

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Climate change is increasing natural disasters around the world. The rise in religious fundamentalism is increasing homophobia and transphobia globally. Together, they make a deadly combination.

Unnatural Disasters is a documentary web series that investigates the discrimination and violence faced by LGBT people in the wake of natural disasters. In 15 short webisodes, we expose these injustices by visiting disaster sites and revealing the harrowing and inspiring stories of the people affected. It is the “unnatural disaster” that is created by humans in the wake of nature’s devastation.