Mental Illness & Film Series: "Beautiful Son" & "Autism is a World"

Beautiful Son (2007)
"Beautiful Son" is a personal story of a family's effort to help their son with autism. When the medical establishment has little to offer, they turn to a community of doctors and parents who are experimenting with treatments and recovering some children. Through one family's struggle to save their son, we are introduced to the complex and sometimes controversial world of autism.

Autism is a World (2004)
A documentary on an autistic woman's inner world, her writing, and the friends she made while in college.

Screening and conversation with Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom

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