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| If You Could Say It In Words |
| an unflinching romance. |
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Pennsylvania
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| Project Status: Not Yet Fundraising |
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Synopsis: The debut feature of A Chip & A Chair Films, IF YOU COULD SAY IT IN WORDS was featured in Filmmaker Magazine's "In Focus" section in Summer 2007, and has begun to garner support from the Asperger’s community. The director and the actor playing Nelson were recently interviewed for www.WrongPlanet.net, a website run by and devoted to people with Asperger’s and other autism-related disorders. After showing some of the clips of the film, it has earned praise for its realistic and nuanced portrayal of this condition.
Nelson has Asperger's Syndrome, a condition that impairs social function. Undiagnosed, poor, and a painter, he has been pushed to society's fringes. He is working on a triptych of emotional portraits that he understands more intellectually than intrinsically. He meets Sadie, a young woman with broken dreams who now treads water at a job that’s not her career, has a roommate who’s not her friend, and sleeps with her married boss, Mark.
A one-night stand grows into an unlikely romance wherein two people lost in different ways begin to find themselves through each other. With Sadie, Nelson is now overcome by the emotions he struggled to paint. With Nelson, Sadie is freed from the strain of her own self-imposed expectations.
As the weeks go by, they come to share their secrets freely, but sharing feelings comes slower. Nelson becomes more immersed in his triptych, racing to capture on canvas what he cannot say in words. Feeling neglected, Sadie pushes him to join her in more conventional social settings where he can barely cope. Soon their entire relationship is in jeopardy. When at last the cost of dating erodes Nelson's meager finances, he agrees to sell Mark a painting he had already promised to Sadie. In Sadie's eyes, this is betrayal. In the end Nelson is left alone with his canvases to ponder what went wrong and to mourn what could have been.
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Fundraising Expired
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Funds use: Picture edit is complete and sound mix is well underway.
This money will be used to pay for studio time for ADR sessions, as well as for digital visual effects to correct three small continuity errors. Any remainder will go toward outputting the final print. |
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What makes If You Could Say It In Words different?
Some recent studies have shown that as many as 80% of people with some degree of autism go undiagnosed. Higher functioning autistics are often simply labeled as quirky or weird (or even less accurate, mentally retarded), when in truth their brains function in an entirely different way than the typical person.
What happens to these people as they try to blend in to society? Or when they seek refuge in its fringes? How do they find love and human contact? How they learn to share themselves when what they have learned best is how to hide who they are?
These stories have been left untold until now. If You Could features a staggering performance from Alvin Keith as a painter coping with Asperger's Syndrome as he falls in love for the first time.
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What is the name of the legal entity behind this project, if any?
A Chip & A Chair Films LLC
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| Debut Feature from A Chip and A Chair |
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| nicholasgray (Sun Feb 17) |
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| The interview with Alvin and Nicholas is now live at http://www.wrongplanet.net/article359.html. |
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| nicholasgray (Fri Jan 25) |
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| Director Nicholas Gray and star Alvin Keith recently completed an in-depth interview with wrongplanet.net. A podcast and transcripted highlights should be online soon. |
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