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Richard O'Connor

Director · USA · 25 films on Cinelet · 2019–2025 · 74 min in all
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Latest film · 2025

A Gem of a Guy

Brothers Phil and Rob Rigano laugh through childhood mischief, including Rob's love of secretly rolling cars down the driveway, and celebrate Rob's place in their family and community.

Documentary · 3 min · 62K views

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3 min A Gem of a Guy 2025 · Documentary · 62K views Brothers Phil and Rob Rigano laugh through childhood mischief, including Rob's love of secretly rolling cars down the driveway, and celebrate Rob's place in their family and community. 4 min The Room 2023 · Documentary · 36K views Debra Fisher recalls how her father, an Auschwitz survivor who shielded her from his past, finally told her what he had lived through. 3 min Labor of Love 2022 · Romance · 104K views A granddaughter and great-granddaughter honor Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden, a woman born into slavery who became a midwife delivering hundreds of babies in Black Mountain. 3 min An Honest Life 2022 · Documentary · 150K views An animated StoryCorps conversation in which a grandfather who came out as gay to his nine-year-old grandson and that grandson reflect on their own coming-out journeys. 3 min Joyce's Neighborhood: The Mom Every Other Kid Wanted 2022 · Documentary · 47K views Mary Mills sits down with her mother Joyce to tell her why every kid in their 1960s Santa Monica neighbourhood wanted to be at their house. 3 min A Life of Honor 2021 · Documentary · 30K views Navy veteran Joseph Patton recalls being discharged in the 1950s on suspicion of being gay, and his long fight to have his discharge made honorable. 3 min September 12th 2021 · Documentary · 87K views An airline ticket agent who checked in two of the September 11 hijackers recalls the guilt he carried for years and how he finally began to heal. 5 min Father Mychal's Blessing 2021 · Documentary · 119K views Father Michael Duffy remembers his friend Father Mychal Judge, the FDNY chaplain recorded as the first certified fatality of September 11th. 2 min The Little Things 2021 · Documentary · 34K views A man who delivers food bank groceries to elderly neighbors every week sits down with one of them to talk about what the ritual has come to mean to them both. 3 min Lola's Work 2021 · Documentary · 49K views Kenneth Tan and his mother remember his grandmother Lola. She survived the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and worked tirelessly for her family. 3 min At First Glance 2021 · Documentary · 53K views A widow and her daughter remember Max Starkloff, a disability activist who met his future wife while living in a nursing home after an accident left him quadriplegic. 3 min With Love, From Georgia 2021 · Documentary · 51K views A young soldier stationed at a remote Afghan outpost recalls the day a package from his grandmother brought a taste of Georgia home. 3 min Alone Together 2020 · Documentary · 29K views A hospital microbiologist who isolated himself in his basement during COVID-19 talks with his wife and 10-year-old son about the strain of living apart under one roof. 3 min Love Lost, And Found 2020 · Documentary · 32K views Two transgender Vietnam-era veterans recall how they met at a support group and built a lasting sisterhood after losing touch with their families. 3 min A Life Worth Living 2020 · Documentary · 28K views MJ Seide tells her granddaughter how falling for a married mother changed a life she never expected to be happy, and brought her a family. 4 min Learning to Fly 2020 · Documentary · 32K views Ornithologist Drew Lanham recalls the family farm and the father he saw in its land, and how he lost both and found his way back. 3 min The View From Here 2020 · Documentary · 29K views After 14 years in an office, Barb Abelhauser became a bridgetender in Jacksonville and reflects on the quiet beauty that made her stay. 3 min My Aunties 2020 · Documentary · 89K views Raised by gay parents in the 1980s, Stefan Lynch remembers the gay men he called his aunties, who cared for him and each other through the AIDS crisis. 3 min Double Major 2020 · Documentary · 124K views A 27-year-old freshman secretly brings his infant daughter to college, and years later the two remember their time as roommates. 4 min A Wonderful Life 2020 · Documentary · 57K views Five years after his Alzheimer's diagnosis, Ken Morganstern talks with his two daughters about the memories he still holds onto. 3 min The Drill 2019 · Documentary · 41K views Ten-year-old Dezmond explains to his mother, step by step, what his fifth-grade class has been taught to do during active shooter drills. 3 min The Treasures of Mrs. Grady's Library 2019 · Documentary · 177K views Judge Olly Neal recalls how a book he stole from his Arkansas high school library, and two quietly watchful librarians, changed his life. 3 min Driving Lessons: The Long Ride to Family Pride 2019 · Documentary · 79K views A Pakistani immigrant cab driver in New York and his eldest son talk honestly about what it meant to grow up as a taxi driver's child. 3 min The Golden Rule 2019 · Documentary · 69K views A Muslim student and a Trump supporter who met at a 2016 protest in Texas recall the moment that unexpectedly brought them together. 3 min The Door She Opened 2019 · Documentary · 68K views Dee Westenhauser, who came out as a transgender woman at 63, remembers the childhood weekend when her aunt Yaya let her be herself.

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