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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

We Have Room Here

Our documentary is being released for it's first showing!

Some of you are blinking, thinking "Did I read that right?" Yes, yes you did! Nearly two years ago we were approached by a local photo journalist, Patrick Sheppard from Bright Circle Productions, who knows our family, and asked about doing a documentary. "Everyone wants to know how your family works!" he said. After some discussion we started filming in April 2018.

Then in October 2018, Chris Ulner from Special Books By Special Kids interviewed our family. He is so much fun to work with! Chris in person is exactly like Chris in video (if it's possible, his eyes are even more blue!) and he has an fantastic way of interacting with the kids. You can check out his video here. By the way, it is reaching 1 million views. Feel free to share to push us over the edge!

In the meantime, we were still filming with Bright Circle Productions, finally wrapping up in June with Axel's graduation. It took some time to pull the last pieces together, but FINALLY we have a release date of January 11th. That is a local theater release, and there will be another small group hosted by the Highland Friendship Club on January 14th. I'm not sure what the producer's plans are after that. He'll either do another theater showing, or post it as a download.


2 comments:

diane said...

Oh wow Leah I won't miss seeing this hopefully in a theatre. Your family is very inspiring. God Bless.

Cindy said...

I watched the video, that's amazing! You have a great family!