7 1/2 min / documentary / 2012 / USA
filmmaker: Anthony Di Salvo
35 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) answer the same one question: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?
This Sproutflix Production was shot over 5 days and the production crew included eight people with I/DD.
Production Assistants: Maxime Burbank, Cesar Casartelli, Seth Ehrlich, Marlon Foster, Michael Greenebaum, Zach Koeber, Dorothy Langdon, Hindy Makowsky, Lucille Payne and Viru Singh.
A poem by Cam Lasley, a hip-hop artist with Down syndrome, is performed/recited by Marlon Foster, a young man with an I/DD.
Seth, a person with developmental disabilities, gives a commentary on a community’s efforts to deny a group home from opening.
A poem by Mark VanSlyke and recited/performed by Gina Watson two people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A personal mini-documentary on the thoughts of the filmmaker’s brother Wataru Kubo, who has autism.
A poem, by Jennifer Fan, in which she shares moments of anxiety. The poem is recited and performed by Nadirah McFadden.
A poem written by Emily Meek in which she states a variety of her wishes. A Sproutflix Production.
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