Film poster for "Being Michelle" with woman holding painting over her face.

a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past

BEING MICHELLE

Name: BEING MICHELLE
Brand: a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past
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AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY - Florida Film Festival | BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Ojai Film Festival | GRAND JURY AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY - Awareness Film Festival

Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System • Disability Justice & Rights • Human Rights • American Studies • Art Therapy • Trauma and Healing • Women Studies

Date of Completion: 2022 | Run Time: 80 minutes | Language: American Sign Language, English, Spanish, French, and Catalan | Captions: Open Captions with Audio Description Available | Includes: Enhanced Transcript, Spanish Transcript & Study Guide | Director & Director of Photography: Atin Mehra | Producers: Atin Mehra & Mae Thornton Mehra

BEING MICHELLE follows the astonishing journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration and abuse under unimaginable circumstances by a system that refused to accommodate her needs as a deaf person with autism. Michelle’s trajectory changed when she met Kim Law, a blind volunteer life coach who teaches classes to people in prison. Today, outside of prison, Kim and Michelle are doing the difficult work of unraveling Michelle’s history, of telling the story of Michelle’s traumatic childhood and her adverse experiences in the criminal justice system. With the support of Kim, Michelle realizes her own voice and strength. Throughout the film Michelle’s artwork provides her own depiction of the trauma she survived as well as a means to her recovery. Ultimately, BEING MICHELLE is a story of redemption. It is about the bonds between women committed to thriving in a broken system, who are forging a path to healing that can only come through facing the truth and communicating it, together.

WUFT/NPR | Katie Hyson, Report for America
"It struck me so powerfully as a viewer, what a central role she had in the documentary and in telling her own story."

RespectAbility | Delbert Whetter, Board Vice Chair
"Stories about people with disabilities have long been told through the lens of those that lack our lived experience. In this film, we see Michelle's story. Her voice can be seen through her hands, her artwork, and those who Michelle loves and cherishes in her life."

Roger Ebert | Matt Fagerholm, Literary Editor
"Atin Mehra’s 'Being Michelle' centers on a wrongfully incarcerated woman, and finds inventive ways to have us view the story from her perspective as a deaf person with autism."

Disability Rights New York | Marc Fliedner, Civil Rights Attorney
"I believe that this film should be mandatory viewing for everyone in every court system in this nation. Michelle's story tells the story of the devastating impact of solitary confinement, the devastating impact of being uniquely vulnerable in prison and jail systems because you are a person with disabilities, and again, so resoundingly, the fact that we don't take time to communicate with each other and that just results in misunderstandings that rob people like Michelle of decades of their lives."

AWARDS
Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary | Florida Film Festival
Award for Best Documentary Feature | Ojai Film Festival
Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary | Awareness Film Festival
First Prize for Best Feature Documentary | Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival
Honorable Feature Film | Rocky Mountain Deaf Film Festival
Golden Era Humanitarian Awards - Documentary | Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema
Best Documentary (Meilleur Documentaire) | Festival Clin d’oeil

FESTIVALS
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, World Premiere - Feature Documentary Award nominee
Cleveland International Film Festival
Maine Deaf Film Festival
BraveMaker Film Festival
BendFilm Festival
Heartland International Film Festival
Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
Trauma Research Foundation Film Festival
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival
Common Good International Film Festival
Sedona International Film Festival
ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York
ReelAbilities Film Festival: Toronto
Nevada City Film Festival
(In)Justice for All Film Festival International
SignLight International Film Festival: Hollywood

Being Michelle Discussion Guide