Far From The Tree is a new documentary that examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.
Directed by Rachel Dretzin, Far From The Tree is based on the New York Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon.
I’m in because the subject matter is simply too interesting and likely very useful.
Best And Most Beautiful Things (2016) Michelle Smith (r)
Directed by Garrett Zevgetis, Best And Most Beautitful Things is a documentary about Michelle Smith, a young blind woman who with humour and bold curiosity chases love and freedom…
Following the very promising Notes On Blindness (2016) which I’m still yet to see, I look forward to finding out all that I had no idea about in regards to a young blind woman’s experience. A particularly precocious young woman with autism at that.
Asperger’s Are Us (2016), Noah Britton, New Michael Ingemi, Jack Hanke, Ethan Finlan,
Asperger’s Are Us is a new documentary about friends and members of the comedy troupe ‘Asperger’s Are Us.’ All members – Noah Britton, Ethan Finlan, Jack Hanke and New Michael Ingemi happen to be on the Autism spectrum.
I want to see this because I love comedy and Asperger’s Are Us, based on this trailer are funny. I also love to see anyone exceeding other people’s limiting expectations of them.
Life, Animated is a documentary about a family’s experience of Autism and the way Disney movies helped them through in an unexpected way.
This is one I want to see because I already agree that film and the stories within them are great equipment for living. I also love finding out about the many different ways it is just that for other people as well.
Directed by Roger Ross Williams, I’m looking forward to learning about the Suskind family’s experience with autism and movies by Disney.
Today’s trailer, which now seems to have disappeared from the Internet, is rather controversial. It’s for Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe. a documentary about a U.S. governmental agency’s alleged cover-up of data that proves a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
Just this week, Robert De Niro’s 2016 Tribeca Film Festival removed the documentary from its list of screenings. The decision came after an outcry from many, including the scientific community and pro-vaccine groups.
Ultimately, talk emerged about the film’s director, Andrew Wakefield as an unreliable source of information since his medical licence in his native United Kingdom has been fully revoked.
Below is De Niro’s statement on the removal of the film from the list of screenings at 2016’s Tribeca Film Festival.