Let Me Be Me

[Opens Feb. 25 in theaters and available on various digital platforms.] Dan Crane and Katie Taber's poignant, educational, inspirational, eye-opening, 76-minute documentary that focuses on the Westphal family who worked with numerous autism experts to make a meaningful connection with their talented, blanket-and-fabric-loving, autistic son Kyle from the time he was 6 years old to his twenties where he showed a passion for and was successful in designing clothes and consists of home film clips, creative computer-generated animation, and candid commentary by Son-Rise program volunteers (such as Lindsay Sterious, William Hogan, and Rachel Morin), classmate Alexa Whitehurst, fashion professor emeritus Roberta Gruber, fashion instructor Sally Seligman, Son-Rise teacher Jonathan Levy, autism specialist Andrew Shanhan, Applied Behavioral Analysis ABA O. Ivar Lovaas, fashion design professor emeritus Renee Weiss Chase, and Son-Rise Program & Autism Treatment Center of America co-founder Barry Neil Kaufman.
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