The Day I Helped Save the World

"One day, the world needed help."

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About this film

Gary Mirabelle's 2012 short The Day I Helped Save the World plays on youthful fantasy of global heroism, likely through comic or sentimental vignette structure common to festival comedies.

More about this film

About the production

Release date2012-11-19

Themes

Hero fantasyComedy

Themes & topics

Gary Mirabelle2012hero

Historical background

Micro-budget American shorts in 2012 often blended quirk comedy with speculative hooks for web and festival exposure.

Why this film matters

The title is catalogued among Mirabelle's directing credits on public film databases.

Making of

Open sources chiefly list credits.

What critics said

Festival play provides primary documentation; no major review aggregation is available.

Did you know?

  • 2012 short by Gary Mirabelle.

What audiences thought

Audience documentation for The Day I Helped Save the World is limited; availability today depends on archive and streaming copies.

Film restoration

Preservation status should be confirmed against archive holdings.

Where to watch

  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDe1d5ikXjc
  • Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The%20Day%20I%20Helped%20Save%20The%20World.webm
  • Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/53899310