Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic
Directed by Todd Drezner
If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person.
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"Loving Lampposts" Trailer
Overview
- Genre
- Contemporary Issues, Personal Doc, Science, and Social Issues
- Synopsis
What would you call a four year old who caresses all the lampposts in the park? Quirky? Unusual? Or sick? Such labels are at the center of the debate about autism: is it a disease or a different way of being—or both? In Loving Lampposts, we witness this debate and meet the parents, doctors, therapists, and autistic people who are redefining autism at a moment when it's better known than ever before. Motivated by his son's diagnosis, filmmaker Todd Drezner explores the changing world of autism and learns the truth of the saying, "if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person.”
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 83 minutes
Credits
- Todd Drezner ... Director/editor
Production Details
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 2007-09
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2011
- Festivals
- UN World Autism Awareness Day, Wisconsin Film Festival, Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, Peace on Earth Film Festival, VisionFest, DocMiami Film Festival, Focus Film Festival, Show Me Social Justice Film Festival, Trail Dance Film Festival
- Awards
- Social Consciousness award--VisionFest, Best Documentary--Peace on Earth Film Festival
- Distribution
- Cinema Libre Studio
- Language
- English
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