Series/Themes: Emerging Artist Series, Featured, LGBTQ Focus
Genre: Documentaries
Film Year: 2016
Locations: USA
Film Length: 91 min.
Director: Garrett Zevgetis
Featuring: Michelle Smith, Julie Smith
Michelle Smith, a precocious twenty-year-old woman, lives with her mother Julie in rural Maine. Michelle is quirky and charming, with big dreams and varied passions. She is also legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Searching for connection, Michelle explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative sex-positive community. The documentary tells her story of self-discovery as she navigates new relationships and attempts to go out into the world on her own. Discussion with director Garrett Zevgetis, producer/editor Jeff Consiglio, and subjects Michelle and Julie Smith.
Supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts
5:00 PM
Downtown Mall : Violet Crown A