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“Transplant,” Canada’s most-watched drama series, will be back for a third season at CTV, produced by Sphere Media in association with CTV and Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Season 3 will shoot in Montréal, with Hamza Haq returning as protagonist Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian refugee who fled to Canada where he now practices medicine. The show, currently airing its second season on CTV, CTV.ca and on the CTV app, is the country’s most-watched drama series at an average of 1.1 million viewers. The show has also done well abroad, airing on NBC in the U.S. with Season 2 scheduled to premiere March 6.
“Viewers around the world have embraced ‘Transplant,’ and we look forward to bringing this exceptional cast back as we continue to tell the stories of York Memorial Hospital,” said Justin Stockman, VP of content development and programming at Bell Media. “With our...
“Transplant,” Canada’s most-watched drama series, will be back for a third season at CTV, produced by Sphere Media in association with CTV and Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Season 3 will shoot in Montréal, with Hamza Haq returning as protagonist Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian refugee who fled to Canada where he now practices medicine. The show, currently airing its second season on CTV, CTV.ca and on the CTV app, is the country’s most-watched drama series at an average of 1.1 million viewers. The show has also done well abroad, airing on NBC in the U.S. with Season 2 scheduled to premiere March 6.
“Viewers around the world have embraced ‘Transplant,’ and we look forward to bringing this exceptional cast back as we continue to tell the stories of York Memorial Hospital,” said Justin Stockman, VP of content development and programming at Bell Media. “With our...
- 2/18/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Sales outfit MetFilm renegotiated rights with distributors to make deal happen.
Disney+ has secured rights to documentary The Reason I Jump from the UK’s MetFilm Sales, which renegotiated previous agreements with distributors to close the deal.
The streaming giant has picked up SVoD rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance-award winning feature for Emea and Latin America and plans to launch the film around World Autism Day on April 2.
The documentary is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English...
Disney+ has secured rights to documentary The Reason I Jump from the UK’s MetFilm Sales, which renegotiated previous agreements with distributors to close the deal.
The streaming giant has picked up SVoD rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance-award winning feature for Emea and Latin America and plans to launch the film around World Autism Day on April 2.
The documentary is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English...
- 2/18/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
New releases also include ‘In The Earth’, ‘The Reason I Jump’.
Warner Bros’ long-awaited musical In The Heights arrived in cinemas across the UK and Ireland this weekend, as one of several wide-release titles looking to benefit from the National Lottery Cinema Weekend campaign.
Set up by the BFI Film Audience Network, the campaign has made 200,000 free cinemas tickets available to National Lottery players, at over 500 UK venues.
With wetter weather forecast for much of the UK, distributors are hoping to see audiences seek shelter in the cinema. However this will be offset by interest in the ongoing football Euros...
Warner Bros’ long-awaited musical In The Heights arrived in cinemas across the UK and Ireland this weekend, as one of several wide-release titles looking to benefit from the National Lottery Cinema Weekend campaign.
Set up by the BFI Film Audience Network, the campaign has made 200,000 free cinemas tickets available to National Lottery players, at over 500 UK venues.
With wetter weather forecast for much of the UK, distributors are hoping to see audiences seek shelter in the cinema. However this will be offset by interest in the ongoing football Euros...
- 6/18/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Documentary inspired by Japanese teenager’s bestselling book takes us into the world of young neurodiverse people from across the world
Here is a documentary with something to tell us and something to teach us. It’s inspired by the 2007 book of the same name by the Japanese teenager Naoki Higashida, who has nonverbal autism: explaining why he behaves as he does, when and why he feels joy and fear and why he sometimes jumps, why he responds with great and uncontrolled physical activity. It was translated into English in 2013 by Keiko Yoshida and her husband, the British novelist David Mitchell.
The original book was transcribed by Higashida’s mother by getting him to use an alphabet-grid prompt system, leading some sceptics to claim that the book was basically authored by her: a rendering of what she thinks her son is thinking, or even just a YA fantasy. But this...
Here is a documentary with something to tell us and something to teach us. It’s inspired by the 2007 book of the same name by the Japanese teenager Naoki Higashida, who has nonverbal autism: explaining why he behaves as he does, when and why he feels joy and fear and why he sometimes jumps, why he responds with great and uncontrolled physical activity. It was translated into English in 2013 by Keiko Yoshida and her husband, the British novelist David Mitchell.
The original book was transcribed by Higashida’s mother by getting him to use an alphabet-grid prompt system, leading some sceptics to claim that the book was basically authored by her: a rendering of what she thinks her son is thinking, or even just a YA fantasy. But this...
- 6/16/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The writer on how translating The Reason I Jump for his non-verbal autistic son was a lifesaver and his excitement at seeing the new Matrix film he co-wrote
Author David Mitchell, 52, was born in Southport, grew up in Malvern and now lives near Cork in Ireland. He published the first of his nine novels, Ghostwritten, aged 30. He has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, for number9dream and Cloud Atlas. He has also written opera libretti and screenplays. Mitchell translated the autism memoir The Reason I Jump from Japanese to English with his wife, Keiko Yoshida. Written by Naoki Higashida when he was 13, the book became an international bestseller and has now been turned into an award-winning documentary also featuring Mitchell.
What was your experience of reading The Reason I Jump for the first time?
My son had been fairly recently diagnosed. We had no idea what was...
Author David Mitchell, 52, was born in Southport, grew up in Malvern and now lives near Cork in Ireland. He published the first of his nine novels, Ghostwritten, aged 30. He has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, for number9dream and Cloud Atlas. He has also written opera libretti and screenplays. Mitchell translated the autism memoir The Reason I Jump from Japanese to English with his wife, Keiko Yoshida. Written by Naoki Higashida when he was 13, the book became an international bestseller and has now been turned into an award-winning documentary also featuring Mitchell.
What was your experience of reading The Reason I Jump for the first time?
My son had been fairly recently diagnosed. We had no idea what was...
- 6/6/2021
- by Michael Hogan
- The Guardian - Film News
An immersive documentary inspired by Naoki Higashida’s groundbreaking book of poetry, Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump places us in the mind of nonverbal autistic children, focusing on the ways in which they navigate the world. The result is a poetic and experimental documentary made for the big screen, and thankfully I had the rare opportunity to see it that way when it premiered last year at Sundance, presented in a version mixed for Dolby Atmos, the 360-degree sound system.
Now arriving in Virtual Cinemas around the country via Kino Marquee and ahead of a release in Rothwell’s native UK once cinemas reopen, we talked with the director about his experience adapting Higashida’s book and launching the film at a time when cinemas are largely closed.
The Film Stage: Thinking of your previous works exploring man in nature, how did you come to adapt Naomi Higashida’s The Reason I Jump?...
Now arriving in Virtual Cinemas around the country via Kino Marquee and ahead of a release in Rothwell’s native UK once cinemas reopen, we talked with the director about his experience adapting Higashida’s book and launching the film at a time when cinemas are largely closed.
The Film Stage: Thinking of your previous works exploring man in nature, how did you come to adapt Naomi Higashida’s The Reason I Jump?...
- 1/11/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Naoki Higashida’s eye-opening book has now become an evocative, careful simulation of non-verbal autistic perception
The cinematic language of The Reason I Jump, an ambitious documentary which attempts to simulate the sensory experience of non-verbal autism, is elemental, building up one isolated detail at a time. A living room, for example, emerges from the cascading, metallic tide of an electric fan, from the frisson of sizzling oil in a frying pan, from the wafting glow of sunlight refracted through a plastic water bottle. The scene is an act of double translation: Naoki Higashida’s book of the same name, written when he was 13 years old to map his experience of non-verbal autism, reimagined by film-maker Jerry Rothwell into a cinematic approximation of autistic perception – the sensory overwhelm, the hyper-intensity of details, the destabilizing fluidity of memory – for a neuro-typical audience.
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The cinematic language of The Reason I Jump, an ambitious documentary which attempts to simulate the sensory experience of non-verbal autism, is elemental, building up one isolated detail at a time. A living room, for example, emerges from the cascading, metallic tide of an electric fan, from the frisson of sizzling oil in a frying pan, from the wafting glow of sunlight refracted through a plastic water bottle. The scene is an act of double translation: Naoki Higashida’s book of the same name, written when he was 13 years old to map his experience of non-verbal autism, reimagined by film-maker Jerry Rothwell into a cinematic approximation of autistic perception – the sensory overwhelm, the hyper-intensity of details, the destabilizing fluidity of memory – for a neuro-typical audience.
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- 1/9/2021
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
The past year — and even the events of the past week in this country has been a struggle for a lot of people. More specifically, the pandemic and Covid-19 has claimed the lives of over 360,000 people and there are thousands of families in mourning. They are grieving — and this includes children. The virtual release of Katrine Philp’s documentary, Beautiful Something Left Behind speaks to this exact topic.
Beautiful Something Left Behind was filmed long before the pandemic and debuted at SXSW in 2020 where it won Best Documentary Feature under the title An Elephant in the Room. The film from MTV Documentary Films is timeless as it puts a heartbreaking spotlight on the lives of several young children who have recently lost one or both parents.
The Good Grief community in New Jersey focuses on a holistic approach to mourning, where children can give in to rage in “the volcano...
Beautiful Something Left Behind was filmed long before the pandemic and debuted at SXSW in 2020 where it won Best Documentary Feature under the title An Elephant in the Room. The film from MTV Documentary Films is timeless as it puts a heartbreaking spotlight on the lives of several young children who have recently lost one or both parents.
The Good Grief community in New Jersey focuses on a holistic approach to mourning, where children can give in to rage in “the volcano...
- 1/8/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The new documentary The Reason I Jump begins with text on screen that explains the basis for the film: “Ten years ago a book by Japanese teenager, Naoki Higashida, revealed a previously hidden world.”
That hidden world is the mental landscape of a non-speaking autistic youth, a variety of human experience that has often perplexed those who qualify as “neuro-typical.”
“I thought…how has this book come into being?” director Jerry Rothwell remembers wondering. “And then I went to meet Naoki and Naoki is every bit as fluid and poetic and wise as the book would suggest.”
Naoki learned to communicate by pointing to letters on a letter board, a painstaking process where, as Rothwell notes, “a sentence might take 10 minutes” to complete. The author, now in his 20s, didn’t want to appear in the documentary himself, Rothwell says, but his words resonate throughout it, words that illuminate his sensory perceptions.
That hidden world is the mental landscape of a non-speaking autistic youth, a variety of human experience that has often perplexed those who qualify as “neuro-typical.”
“I thought…how has this book come into being?” director Jerry Rothwell remembers wondering. “And then I went to meet Naoki and Naoki is every bit as fluid and poetic and wise as the book would suggest.”
Naoki learned to communicate by pointing to letters on a letter board, a painstaking process where, as Rothwell notes, “a sentence might take 10 minutes” to complete. The author, now in his 20s, didn’t want to appear in the documentary himself, Rothwell says, but his words resonate throughout it, words that illuminate his sensory perceptions.
- 1/7/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
"Can you imagine how your life would be, if you couldn't say what you wanted?"
It's a good question, posed by Japanese then-13-year-old Naoki Higashida, whose autism led him to experience exactly this in the first few years of his life. After the use of an alphabet grid opened a method of communication to the world, he wrote about his experiences of that feeling, along with a guide to how he perceives the world in his book, from which Jerry Rothwell takes the title of his engaging and eye-opening documentary. Rothwell, interweaves Higashida's insights - which the writer carefully notes are not intended to represent every autistic person's experience - with a portrait of others who have a complex form of the condition from countries across the globe.
People on the autistic spectrum have been given an increasing voice in film in recent years, through the likes of Too Sane For This World.
It's a good question, posed by Japanese then-13-year-old Naoki Higashida, whose autism led him to experience exactly this in the first few years of his life. After the use of an alphabet grid opened a method of communication to the world, he wrote about his experiences of that feeling, along with a guide to how he perceives the world in his book, from which Jerry Rothwell takes the title of his engaging and eye-opening documentary. Rothwell, interweaves Higashida's insights - which the writer carefully notes are not intended to represent every autistic person's experience - with a portrait of others who have a complex form of the condition from countries across the globe.
People on the autistic spectrum have been given an increasing voice in film in recent years, through the likes of Too Sane For This World.
- 12/28/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
One of the early must-see films of 2021 is The Reason I Jump, which picked up an Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and has gone on to screen at BFI London, SXSW, AFI Docs, Doc NYC, and more. Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, translated into English by author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), Jerry Rothwell’s film is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. Ahead of a January 8 release from Kino Lorber, the first trailer and poster have now arrived.
John Fink said in our review, “While The Reason I Jump is a profound and moving experience, one that isn’t easy to forget, it’s most effective when operating as an experimental work, taking a unique and lyrical approach to a subject that has often focused on the relationships and social struggles its subjects feel.
John Fink said in our review, “While The Reason I Jump is a profound and moving experience, one that isn’t easy to forget, it’s most effective when operating as an experimental work, taking a unique and lyrical approach to a subject that has often focused on the relationships and social struggles its subjects feel.
- 12/8/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
"How do I see the world...? For me, the details jump straight out." Kino Lorber has unveiled an official US trailer for one of the best documentaries of the year titled The Reason I Jump, made by award-winning doc filmmaker Jerry Rothwell. This is a film adaption of the ground-breaking book by Naoki Higashida, in which he answers questions about autism and shares his insights into the mind of an autistic child. This immersive film explores the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people around the world. It's a phenomenal examination of autism by introducing us to and taking us inside the minds of many autistic people. They have rich, beautiful minds, limited by their illness, but still full of so much potential - and this film teaches us how to understand and be more perceptive to their experiences. "It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful,...
- 12/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
‘The Reason I Jump’, ‘White Riot’ also make the list.
Films about Irish singer Shane MacGowan and natural historian David Attenborough are among the 13 titles on the best documentary longlist for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards.
The longlist is the final of four to be announced this week, following lists for new talent, most promising newcomer and international film.
Julien Temple’s Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan is a look at the celebrated Irish punk musician and singer, combining archive and family footage with animation. It debuted at San Sebastián in September; Altitude has the rights for the UK and Ireland,...
Films about Irish singer Shane MacGowan and natural historian David Attenborough are among the 13 titles on the best documentary longlist for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards.
The longlist is the final of four to be announced this week, following lists for new talent, most promising newcomer and international film.
Julien Temple’s Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan is a look at the celebrated Irish punk musician and singer, combining archive and family footage with animation. It debuted at San Sebastián in September; Altitude has the rights for the UK and Ireland,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Reason I Jump is based on the bestselling memoir by the nonverbal Autistic Naoki Higashida. Supposedly written using facilitated communication techniques, the book attempts to articulate Higashida’s first-person understanding of the disorder. Using his personal experiences, memories and interactions with others to translate how his mind works to a neuro-typical reader. The film takes that mission statement and expands it out, beyond Higashida’s experience to cover a variety of severely Autistic young people, both verbal and non-verbal. All while providing one of the most potent attempts to use the language of cinema to replicate their perspective.
The film serves as a window into the lives of five different Autistic people. Showing how they live, how Asd affects them, how it affects their parents and the tools they use to navigate the world. Some, such as the British teenager Joss, attend residential school, much to the heartbreak of his parents.
The film serves as a window into the lives of five different Autistic people. Showing how they live, how Asd affects them, how it affects their parents and the tools they use to navigate the world. Some, such as the British teenager Joss, attend residential school, much to the heartbreak of his parents.
- 10/12/2020
- by Liam Macleod
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“Life-changing” is the kind of hyperbolic descriptor thrown around all too easily in the world of publishing, but it could quite reasonably be applied to Naoki Higashida’s nonfiction bestseller “The Reason I Jump.” Written when Hagashida was just 13 years old, it’s a unique account of autistic spectrum disorder from the inside, giving voice to a community frequently described as “non-verbal” and dispelling multiple misconceptions about the way they see and feel the world around them. Translating that perspective-shifting achievement to the screen is a tall order, but Jerry Rothwell’s documentary of the same title does so with imagination and grace: Not so much a direct adaptation of Higashida’s book as an application of its insights to the lives of five other young people diagnosed with Asd, it finds supple visual and sonic language to bring sensory dimension to their experience.
It’s easy enough to see...
It’s easy enough to see...
- 6/11/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Jerry Rothwell's critically acclaimed documentary The Reason I Jump, based on the international best-seller by Naoki Higashida.
The film, which won the world cinema documentary audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, was also picked up by Madman (Australia & New Zealand), Kadokawa (Japan), Dcm (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Cherry Pickers (Benelux), Selmer Media (Scandinavia), L'Atelier d’Images (France), Anticipate Pictures (Singapore and Thailand) and Restart (Former Yugoslavia). As previously announced, Picturehouse has taken the U.K./Ireland rights. Release dates are still to be revealed.
London-based MetFilm ...
The film, which won the world cinema documentary audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, was also picked up by Madman (Australia & New Zealand), Kadokawa (Japan), Dcm (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Cherry Pickers (Benelux), Selmer Media (Scandinavia), L'Atelier d’Images (France), Anticipate Pictures (Singapore and Thailand) and Restart (Former Yugoslavia). As previously announced, Picturehouse has taken the U.K./Ireland rights. Release dates are still to be revealed.
London-based MetFilm ...
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Jerry Rothwell's critically acclaimed documentary The Reason I Jump, based on the international best-seller by Naoki Higashida.
The film, which won the world cinema documentary audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, was also picked up by Madman (Australia & New Zealand), Kadokawa (Japan), Dcm (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Cherry Pickers (Benelux), Selmer Media (Scandinavia), L'Atelier d’Images (France), Anticipate Pictures (Singapore and Thailand) and Restart (Former Yugoslavia). As previously announced, Picturehouse has taken the U.K./Ireland rights. Release dates are still to be revealed.
London-based MetFilm ...
The film, which won the world cinema documentary audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, was also picked up by Madman (Australia & New Zealand), Kadokawa (Japan), Dcm (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Cherry Pickers (Benelux), Selmer Media (Scandinavia), L'Atelier d’Images (France), Anticipate Pictures (Singapore and Thailand) and Restart (Former Yugoslavia). As previously announced, Picturehouse has taken the U.K./Ireland rights. Release dates are still to be revealed.
London-based MetFilm ...
Picturehouse Entertainment has picked up U.K. distribution rights for the Sundance prize-winning documentary “The Reason I Jump” from MetFilm Sales.
Picturehouse’s Clare Binns and Paul Ridd and MetFilm’s Vesna Cudic negotiated the deal following the film’s world premiere at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award.
Directed by Jerry Rothwell (“How to Change the World”), the poetic doc tackles the experiences of non-speaking autistic people, using various formal techniques to evoke their different perspectives. The film is freely adapted from the eponymous best-selling book by Naoki Higashida that was later translated into English by novelist David Mitchell.
While the original book took the form of a questionnaire filled out by non-verbal interviewees, this film adaption evokes the participants’ lived experience via textured sound design and cinematography along with other lyrical approaches.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be releasing this remarkable and important film,...
Picturehouse’s Clare Binns and Paul Ridd and MetFilm’s Vesna Cudic negotiated the deal following the film’s world premiere at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award.
Directed by Jerry Rothwell (“How to Change the World”), the poetic doc tackles the experiences of non-speaking autistic people, using various formal techniques to evoke their different perspectives. The film is freely adapted from the eponymous best-selling book by Naoki Higashida that was later translated into English by novelist David Mitchell.
While the original book took the form of a questionnaire filled out by non-verbal interviewees, this film adaption evokes the participants’ lived experience via textured sound design and cinematography along with other lyrical approaches.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be releasing this remarkable and important film,...
- 2/24/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump, which had its world premiere at Sundance, for the U.K.
A release date will be announced later.
Based on the international best-seller by Naoki Higashida, and translated by British novelist David Mitchell, the film is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world.
The film at the Sundance Film Festival won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award.
Rothwell’s previous work includes How to Change the World, which Picturehouse Entertainment released in 2015, along with Sour Grapes, Donor Unknown, Heavy Load and Deep Water.
The acquisition ...
A release date will be announced later.
Based on the international best-seller by Naoki Higashida, and translated by British novelist David Mitchell, the film is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world.
The film at the Sundance Film Festival won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award.
Rothwell’s previous work includes How to Change the World, which Picturehouse Entertainment released in 2015, along with Sour Grapes, Donor Unknown, Heavy Load and Deep Water.
The acquisition ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump, which had its world premiere at Sundance, for the U.K.
A release date will be announced later.
Based on the international best-seller by Naoki Higashida, and translated by British novelist David Mitchell, the film is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world.
The film at the Sundance Film Festival won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award.
Rothwell’s previous work includes How to Change the World, which Picturehouse Entertainment released in 2015, along with Sour Grapes, Donor Unknown, Heavy Load and Deep Water.
The acquisition ...
A release date will be announced later.
Based on the international best-seller by Naoki Higashida, and translated by British novelist David Mitchell, the film is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world.
The film at the Sundance Film Festival won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award.
Rothwell’s previous work includes How to Change the World, which Picturehouse Entertainment released in 2015, along with Sour Grapes, Donor Unknown, Heavy Load and Deep Water.
The acquisition ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The documentary is based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book.
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance winner The Reason I Jump.
The film won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award on debut in Park City in January, and will play as a Festival Favourite at SXSW in March.
An exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, the doc is based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English in 2013 by David Mitchell and Keiko Yoshida.
Jeremy Dear for Ideas Room, Stevie Lee for Runaway Fridge...
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance winner The Reason I Jump.
The film won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award on debut in Park City in January, and will play as a Festival Favourite at SXSW in March.
An exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, the doc is based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English in 2013 by David Mitchell and Keiko Yoshida.
Jeremy Dear for Ideas Room, Stevie Lee for Runaway Fridge...
- 2/23/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
With the first Sundance Film Festival of the new decade wrapping up today, the award winners have been announced. Leading the pack is Minari, which picked up U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, and Boys State, which was awarded U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. It was also announced that Tabitha Jackson will be the new director of the festival, following John Cooper’s departure.
Check out the full winner list below, along with links to our reviews where available, and return for our wrap-up. See our complete coverage here.
2020 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, for Boys State / U.S.A. — In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Lee Isaac Chung,...
Check out the full winner list below, along with links to our reviews where available, and return for our wrap-up. See our complete coverage here.
2020 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, for Boys State / U.S.A. — In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Lee Isaac Chung,...
- 2/2/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Based off of the book written by 13-year-old Naoki Higashida, Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump aims to translate the experiences of non-verbal autistic people in a way that is honest and multifaceted. Choosing not to simply concede to the opinions of parents and specialists, the documentary aims to break the assumption that divergent ways of experiencing the world are not abnormal, and communication can transcend language and actions. Editor David Charap speaks to the unique experience of having a nonverbal group of individuals explain the intricacies of their everyday lives to an audience through imagery and imagination. Filmmaker: How […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Based off of the book written by 13-year-old Naoki Higashida, Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump aims to translate the experiences of non-verbal autistic people in a way that is honest and multifaceted. Choosing not to simply concede to the opinions of parents and specialists, the documentary aims to break the assumption that divergent ways of experiencing the world are not abnormal, and communication can transcend language and actions. Editor David Charap speaks to the unique experience of having a nonverbal group of individuals explain the intricacies of their everyday lives to an audience through imagery and imagination. Filmmaker: How […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump universalizes the experiences nonverbal autistic youth, who are often denied the opportunity to uniquely express their feelings, emotions and dreams without misunderstanding and translation. Based off the book of the same name written by a 13-year-old named Naoki Higashida, the film follows the lives of several nonverbal autistic youths scattered all over the world, showcasing their distinct personalities while also combating stigma and assumptions about their realities. Dp Ruben Woodin Dechamps Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump universalizes the experiences nonverbal autistic youth, who are often denied the opportunity to uniquely express their feelings, emotions and dreams without misunderstanding and translation. Based off the book of the same name written by a 13-year-old named Naoki Higashida, the film follows the lives of several nonverbal autistic youths scattered all over the world, showcasing their distinct personalities while also combating stigma and assumptions about their realities. Dp Ruben Woodin Dechamps Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions is producing Naoki Higashida’s bestseller “The Reason I Jump” as a documentary about autism, Variety has learned exclusively.
The book was written in 2005 by Higashida, who was 13 at the time, and published in Japan in 2007. The English translation was published in 2013. Higashida wrote the book to help communicate his own needs and thoughts to his family, and shine a light for other autistic individuals around the world. Most of the memoir is told through 58 questions Higashida and other people dealing with autism are commonly asked.
The film is presented by Vulcan Productions, the British Film Institute, the Idea Room, MetFilm Production, and Runaway Fridge. The producers include Stevie Lee, Jeremy Dear, and Al Morrow. Allen is an executive producer along with Carole Tomko, Jannat Gargi, and Rocky Collins.
The film, announced on Wednesday, is in production and part of a larger effort from...
The book was written in 2005 by Higashida, who was 13 at the time, and published in Japan in 2007. The English translation was published in 2013. Higashida wrote the book to help communicate his own needs and thoughts to his family, and shine a light for other autistic individuals around the world. Most of the memoir is told through 58 questions Higashida and other people dealing with autism are commonly asked.
The film is presented by Vulcan Productions, the British Film Institute, the Idea Room, MetFilm Production, and Runaway Fridge. The producers include Stevie Lee, Jeremy Dear, and Al Morrow. Allen is an executive producer along with Carole Tomko, Jannat Gargi, and Rocky Collins.
The film, announced on Wednesday, is in production and part of a larger effort from...
- 9/19/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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