ACTING

Married Life

Directed by Anthony Di Salvo
1 min / narrative / 2011 / USA

Written by Enrichment Center poet, Tawanda Renee Shore. Performed by Samantha Moore.

This is one in series of 13 short videos featuring poetry written by poets with developmental disabilities. Each poem is recited and performed by young adults with developmental disabilities.

MIRIAM

DIRECTED BY JIM KNOX
15 1/2 MIN / NARRATIVE / 2018 / CANADA
Miriam can’t quite live independently. Instead, she lives in a home share, supported by a woman named Annie. Annie controls most of Miriam’s life. She controls every penny Miriam spends, every meal she eats, and a lot of what she says, thinks and feels. Or so she tries. Starring Sue Anthony as Miriam.

Muddy Dreams – Poetic Short

Directed by Anthony Di Salvo
1 min / narrative / 2011 / USA

Poetry by Tim Kroft, performed by William Zhang. This is one in series of 13 short videos featuring poetry written by poets with developmental disabilities. Each poem is recited and performed by young adults with developmental disabilities.

My Love Legacy – Poetic Short

Directed by Anthony Di Salvo
1.5 min / narrative / 2011 / USA

Features the poetry of Frank Doherty and the performances of 5 young adults with developmental disabilities.

This is one in series of 13 short videos featuring poetry written by poets with developmental disabilities. Each poem is recited and performed by young adults with developmental disabilities.

Nothing to Fear

Directed by Anthony Di Salvo
45 min / narrative / 2006 / USA

A documentary film crew captures the behind the scenes happenings during the making of a vampire film. Reality and fiction become blurred as the seven actors with developmental disabilities lose themselves in their roles.

OC87

Directed by Glenn Holsten
91 min / documentary / 2010 / USA

The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie. Soon after college, mental illness interrupted Bud Clayman’s dreams of a filmmaking career. Thirty years later, he’s making the movie of his life.

One Fine Day

DIRECTED BY SIMA GONSAI
7 MIN / NARRATIVE / 2015 / UK

Travel through an imagined world in “One Fine Day”. This short dance film presents a collection of rhythmic and witty scenarios capturing the adventurous world of Freefall Dance Company.

Play. Stop. Rewind

Directed by Gerald Fantone
16 min / narrative / 2011 / Canada

On the day of their mother’s funeral, Dani finds his brother Joel, a boy with special needs, hiding under the bed. Together they try to come to terms with her absence.

Rainbow Connection

Directed by Kire Paputts
19 min / narrative / 2012 / Canada

A teenager with Down syndrome, spends hours drawings his favourite thing, rainbows. But behind his seemingly colourful world is a reality he can’t escape, his mother’s illness.

Rodney

Directed by Andrew Cody
14 min / narrative / 2007 / Australia

With unfailing determination, a man with a developmental disability forces his family to understand his perspective of the world he lives in.