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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Far from the tree / a film by Rachel Dretzin ; Participant Media presents ; in association with Flux Films ; an Ark Media production ; produced by Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron, Andrew Solomon ; directed by Rachel Dretzin.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Sundance Selects, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

"FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."--Container.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated by the MPAA.

Subjects:

Children with disabilities -- United States -- Psychology.

Children with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.

People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.

Down syndrome -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Autistic children -- United States -- Biography.

Exceptional children -- United States -- Psychology.

Parents of children with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.

Parents of exceptional children -- United States.

Parent and child -- United States -- Psychological aspects.