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How will you keep your kids busy this summer vacation?
Hope through dyslexia
Mon, Jan 21st, 2013
Posted in Rochester Features
Posted in Rochester Features
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Director James Redford introduces The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia in Rochester. Photo by Andy Siefert
At 7:00 pm on January 14, The Reading Center of Rochester presented a free movie showing of The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia. Movie director James Redford made an appearance at the Rochester Event Center showing.
Writer, director, producer, musician, surfer, skier and nonprofit founder of the James Redford Institute, James wears many hats besides being the son of Robert, an actor well known for movies including The Horse Whisperer and The Great Gatsby.
In an interview before the show, James admitted he’s often forced into choosing which hat he will wear for a given project. “I look at a project and ask myself ‘What does this need?’” he said.
Dylan Redford, James’s son and character in The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, has the exact same dilemma as his father in his daily challenge with dyslexia. Faced by an open book, words scrambling and pressure mounting, Dylan has to ask himself, ‘What does this need? What do I need?’
Dyslexia is a disorder involving difficulty interpreting words, letters and other symbols but has no indication of the ability to think, create or problem solve. According to James, “By conservative estimates, one in five people is dyslexic.”
The movie depicted an 18-year old Dylan, among other examples of dyslexic individuals, as a student, an artist, and a son. James said it wasn’t difficult directing a movie with his family in it. “I knew they were great characters,” he said, “uniquely articulate and confident.”
James explained that the movie, empowered by his family, friends and dyslexia professionals, has become a tool for spreading awareness of the problem. “This is the film I’d wished I’d seen as a parent raising a dyslexic child,” James said.
Sharing hope drives James. After surviving two liver transplants, he started the James Redford Institute to help educate the public about the need for organ donation.
If you or anyone you know is dyslexic, know that there is hope. Dylan applied and made it into the highly competitive university: Middlebury College. Just like James, he’s been able to carve his own distinct path despite the odds.
Find out more about dyslexia and the movie at http://thebigpicturemovie.com/.
Writer, director, producer, musician, surfer, skier and nonprofit founder of the James Redford Institute, James wears many hats besides being the son of Robert, an actor well known for movies including The Horse Whisperer and The Great Gatsby.
In an interview before the show, James admitted he’s often forced into choosing which hat he will wear for a given project. “I look at a project and ask myself ‘What does this need?’” he said.
Dylan Redford, James’s son and character in The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, has the exact same dilemma as his father in his daily challenge with dyslexia. Faced by an open book, words scrambling and pressure mounting, Dylan has to ask himself, ‘What does this need? What do I need?’
Dyslexia is a disorder involving difficulty interpreting words, letters and other symbols but has no indication of the ability to think, create or problem solve. According to James, “By conservative estimates, one in five people is dyslexic.”
The movie depicted an 18-year old Dylan, among other examples of dyslexic individuals, as a student, an artist, and a son. James said it wasn’t difficult directing a movie with his family in it. “I knew they were great characters,” he said, “uniquely articulate and confident.”
James explained that the movie, empowered by his family, friends and dyslexia professionals, has become a tool for spreading awareness of the problem. “This is the film I’d wished I’d seen as a parent raising a dyslexic child,” James said.
Sharing hope drives James. After surviving two liver transplants, he started the James Redford Institute to help educate the public about the need for organ donation.
If you or anyone you know is dyslexic, know that there is hope. Dylan applied and made it into the highly competitive university: Middlebury College. Just like James, he’s been able to carve his own distinct path despite the odds.
Find out more about dyslexia and the movie at http://thebigpicturemovie.com/.
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