Re: Templ Grandin movie - executve director a parent of ASD kiddo

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I saw the movie and thought it was fantastic.. I had heard Temple Speak at Cal Poly and the likeness of the character was excellent.. I really enjoyed the movie and the mother was awesome..

Candyce

Templ Grandin movie - executve director a parent of ASD kiddo

Didn't see the Temple Grandin movie- no HBO - but the director is a parent of an ASD child ...She worried very much about the technical aspects of the film. The storytelling she sort of left to us," executive producer Gerson Saines said in an interview after the press conference. The challenge for Saines in helping to tell Grandin's story: "At the core, you have someone who's not social. So when you're portraying someone like that honestly on screen, it's difficult because they're not able to directly communicate with the audience. And you don't want to just make it cute, which has been done before."As for Ormond's role, "one of the hardest things about being the mother of an autistic kid is you really have to give a lot of tough love. And that doesn't exactly make you the warm, fuzzy character in a film, either."Said Saines, herself the mother of an autistic son: "I couldn't be dishonest to my community and I couldn't be dishonest to Temple. Because the reason she gave me her rights was she knew about my advocacy work in the world of autism and she knew I had an autistic child, so she knew I wasn't going to embellish her story with crazy things like romances." *http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/ellen_gray/20100204_Ellen_Gray_.html