Cleveland International Film Festival } March 25 – April 5, 2020 } Tower City Cinemas

Intelligent Lives

Year: 2018
Country: USA
Run Time: 74 minutes

WORLD PREMIERE

How much weight does an IQ score actually hold? Considering all the different types of intelligence, can a simplistic number truly tell us what someone is capable of? Director Dan Habib, whose career has centered on films about the disabled, certainly doesn’t think so. Chances are, after seeing his latest documentary, neither will you. Narrated by award-winning actor Chris Cooper, INTELLIGENT LIVES dismantles the myths about people with intellectual disabilities. Cooper’s involvement with the project is personal: his teenage son died of complications from cerebral palsy in 2005. The film focuses on the lives of Micah, Naomie, and Naeer, three charming disabled young adults who have excelled well beyond the limited expectations set for them. With loving and supportive parents who fought to keep them from being segregated in school, they are hardworking and leading productive lives with bright futures ahead of them. By documenting their accomplishments, as well as their struggles, Habib makes a convincing case for a much-needed change in the antiquated and narrow ways in which our society often views these individuals. (In English with subtitles) —E.F.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 7:10 PM

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 12:00 PM

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Competition
Global Health Competition

Director
Dan Habib

Dan Habib is a documentary filmmaker based in Concord, New Hampshire. Through his work at the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability, he has created multiple award-winning documentary films and was nomnated for an Emmy in 2010. In 2014, Habib was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Filmography
Including Samuel (2007), Who Cares About Kelsey? (2012) - CIFF36, INTELLIGENT LIVES (2018)

Producer
Dan Habib

Screenwriting
Jody Becker, Dan Habib

Cinematography
Dan Habib

Editing
James Rutenbeck

Print Source

LikeRightNow Films

dan.habib@unh.edu

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