BraveMaker Film Fest 2022: Being Michelle (feature, doc film) + Short

825 Middlefield Road,Redwood City CA 94063

09 July, 2022

Description

THIS EVENT IS ADA ACCESSIBLE. OPEN CAPTIONS AND ASL INTERPRETATION WILL BE AVAILABLE MY DISABILITY ROADMAP (short film, 22 mins) Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go to college. But he drives a 350-pound wheelchair, uses a communication device, and can have a seizure at any moment. Determined to find his path forward, he seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. Will they empower him to launch the bold adult life he craves BEING MICHELLE (Feature Documentary, 120 mins) follows the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system that refused to accommodate her needs as a deaf person with autism. Michelle’s trajectory changed when she met Kim Law, a blind volunteer life coach who teaches classes to people in prison. Today, outside of prison, Kim and Michelle are doing the difficult work of unraveling Michelle’s history, of telling the story of Michelle’s traumatic childhood and her adverse experiences in the criminal justice system. With the support of Kim, Michelle realizes her own voice and strength. Throughout the film Michelle’s artwork provides her own depiction of the trauma she survived as well as a means to her recovery. Ultimately, BEING MICHELLE is a story of redemption. It is about the bonds between women committed to thriving in a broken system, who are forging a path to healing that can only come through facing the truth and communicating it, together. https://www.beingmichelle.com Filmmakers from Being Michelle, along with Michelle, will be in attendance for a panel discussion after the films. OPEN CAPTIONS AND ASL INTERPRETATION WILL BE AVAILABLE FILMS NOT RATED BY THE AMPA. ====== Please no recording of photographing the film. We encourage you to take photos of the panel discussion and post. Tag @BraveMakerOrg with #BraveMaker @BraveMakerOrg with #BraveMaker **** By entering these premises you give permission for BraveMaker Media to videotape, audiotape, photograph, record, edit or otherwise reproduce your voice, image or likeness, and to use it in various formats and for the purposes commissioned by BraveMaker Media for promotions and media distribution. Media methods may include, but are not limited to the television (broadcast, cable, and satellite), the Internet (including webcasts and podcasts), print publications, film fests, or any other medium now existing or later created. BraveMaker Media retains the right not to use the footage for other than archival purposes. Attending this event on these premises you assign and convey to BraveMaker all right, title and interest that you may have in and to any recording made under this consent. By entrance in this venue you give total release of rights irrevocably so that BraveMaker Media may, without limitation, exercise all ownership rights including copyrights relating to the recording(s) on behalf of BraveMaker.