Tag: movies
Alzheimer’s and Art: “I Remember Better When I Paint”
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This documentary on the benefits of art for Alzheimer’s patients has been well received around the country and is now available on DVD.
Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's | Tags: Alzheimer's, art, movies
TV programs about autism, Alzheimer’s to be honored
The Associated Press
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences – also known as the Emmys – this week will honor eight TV programs, including “Unlocking Autism” and “Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? With Maria Shriver,” about children whose grandparents have Alzheimer’s.
TV academy honors 8 TV shows ‘with a conscience’
LOS ANGELES — A “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” episode about prejudice and an Alzheimer’s documentary with Maria Shriver are among eight programs to be honored Wednesday for demonstrating the power of TV.
The third annual Television Academy Honors spotlighting shows found to exemplify “television with a conscience” will be hosted by Dana Delany. The announcement was made by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Presenters were scheduled to include former Vice President Al Gore, Joel Grey and Shriver, the first lady of California and former NBC News correspondent.
via The Associated Press: TV academy honors 8 TV shows `with a conscience’.
Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's, Autism | Tags: Alzheimer's, Autism, celebrities, movies
10 Mountains 10 Years
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10 Mountains 10 Years opens May 5 and looks like a great documentary about an international mountain-climbing expedition that raised money and awareness for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
Chronicling the worldwide epic created by mountain climber Enzo Simone, 10 Mountains 10 Years is a movie that follows his international team of mountain climbers as they scale 10 of the greatest peaks in the world to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. 45 vertical miles. 7 countries. 6 continents. 2 diseases. And one decade. Focusing on Mt. Kilimanjaro, the film tracks the greatest advances happening in the medical community alongside the team’s endurance at altitude.
Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's | Tags: Alzheimer's, fundraising, movies, Parkinson's disease
Comparing how people with and without autism view “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”
Public Radio International’s Studio 360 has an interesting audio post and slide show on a Yale School of Medicine study that compares how people with and without autism viewed the movie “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Eye-tracking technology showed that the two groups looked at entirely different things, sometimes in surprising ways.
Science is looking for ways to better understand an autistic person’s perception of the world. Using laser technology, Ami Klin and Warren Jones of the Yale School of Medicine screened “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and tracked the gazes of autistic viewers precisely, to study how they perceive social interactions. Biologist David Gruber visited their lab to learn about the technique.
Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Autism | Tags: adults with autism, Autism, movies, research
With autism film, Boston-area mother reaches out
The Boston Globe
Eliza Mury was only one year old when she said her first word — ‘‘doggie’’ — and a few more words followed. But soon her parents noticed that her vocabulary seemed frozen. Speech therapy didn’t help.
Eliza’s mother, Aimee Mury, took her daughter to doctors and specialists, but none diagnosed anything more serious than a hearing deficiency. Friends and relatives, though, had gently begun to suggest that Eliza might be autistic. Aimee Mury was so fearful of the condition, she could barely say the word.
After repeated exams by specialists, Eliza was diagnosed with autism when she was 2 1/2, in the spring of 2007. Aimee Mury read everything she could about the condition. But as she learned about traits and treatment, she had a hard time seeing what an autistic child looked like.
‘‘It’s very hard initially to meet other people and kids,’’ Mury said. ‘‘I was on YouTube and I was trying to search for autism. And I found there was very little out there.’’
Nearly three years after Eliza’s diagnosis, Aimee Mury has helped create a movie about her daughter and their struggle to get her diagnosed called ‘‘Eliza, My Songbird.’’ The movie, produced and directed by Mury’s neighbor, Zadi Zokou, will have its first public showing Sunday at Natick’s Morse Institute Library.
via In film on autism, mother reaches out – Natick – Your Town – Boston.com.
Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Autism | Tags: Autism, Boston, children with Autism, movies
Tying Your Own Shoes: A film featuring artists with Down syndrome
Toronto Star
The film “Tying Your Own Shoes” features artists with Down syndrome who were given a chance to create animated self portraits. Here, a trailer for the film and a review from the Toronto Star, which calls the short film “nothing short of wonderful.”
`I’m a little bit unusual but I’m fine.”
As apt a description of Down syndrome – or any diversity, for that matter – as you are likely to hear.
It comes from a sweet and insightful short film Tying Your Own Shoes, 16 minutes of wisdom and whimsy from four artists with Down syndrome. They were part of a summer animation workshop offered by filmmaker Shira Avni, who challenged them to create self-portraits on celluloid. The results are nothing short of wonderful.
via Short film offers wisdom from artists with Down syndrome -- Healthzone.ca.
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Down Syndrome | Tags: art, Down Syndrome, movies, review
Autistic child rides a horse in ‘Dear John’
Based on the novel by Nicolas Sparks, director Lasse Hallström’s romantic drama “Dear John” follows the relationship between Savannah Curtis Amanda Seyfried and soldier John Tyree Channing Tatum as they communicate through love letters during seven years of military deployments. For John’s scenes in the Middle East and Africa, livestock coordinator Dan Hydrick provided exotic background animals to give a sense of place.
But for Savannah’s scenes in the United States involving a young autistic character, Hydrick tackled an even more unusual challenge: teaching a young autistic actor, Braeden Reed, to ride a horse.
via Autistic boy saddles up ‘Dear John’ – latimes.com.
Posted on February 8, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Autism | Tags: animals, Autism, children with Autism, movies
The Sandwich Generation – Trailer
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YouTube – The Sandwich Generation – Trailer.
Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's, Caregiving, Dementia | Tags: family caregiving, movies
Boy’s films confront Down’s syndrome stigma in Serbia
Agence France Press
ALEKSANDROVAC, Serbia — Like many boys his age, 14-year-old Aksentije wanted to become a secret agent, at least on the big screen like his idol Antonio Banderas.
Despite a gloomy prognosis at birth when doctors gave him only a year to live then growing up with Down’s syndrome in a country where such disabilities carry an unshakeable social stigma, Aksentije has achieved his dream.
For several years he and his cousin Aleksandra, a drama student, have been making short films including the touching and optimistic “The Story”, which won a special prize at a film festival in the northern city of Novi Sad.
via AFP: Boy’s films confront Down’s syndrome stigma in Serbia.
Posted on September 26, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Down Syndrome | Tags: movies
The Horse Boy Explores Whether Equine Companionship Can Help Treat Autism
The Wall Street Journal
Ask most parents how far they’d go for their child, and the usual answer is “to the ends of the earth.” It’s a turn of phrase that Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff took literally.
“The Horse Boy,” directed by Mr. Isaacson and Michel Orion Scott, and opening in New York on Sept. 30, is travelogue of sorts. In 2004, Mr. Isaacson and Ms. Neff’s 2½-year-old son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, a neurological disorder now diagnosed in one out of every 150 children according to the Centers for Disease Control. As Rowan grew, he got worse, as autistics generally do: In homemade footage, Rowan is shown becoming a volatile child whose only place of peace, his parents find, is on a horse.
Rowan Isaacson and his family traveled to Outer Mongolia in the hope that horseback riding would provide some help in dealing with his autism.
Escaping from his father one day, Rowan ran into a herd of horses. His father was petrified, but the herd’s lead horse pushed the other horses away, bent her head to Rowan and began to lick and chew with her lips, a sign of submission. And as the horse responded to Rowan, the boy responded to the horse.
via The Horse Boy Explores Whether Equine Companionship Can Help Treat Autism – WSJ.com.
Posted on September 25, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Autism, Caregiving | Tags: movies