Audience Award: Best Documentary Feature 2022
Upcoming Screenings and Ticket information
UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AT BARCELONA, SPAIN
Being Michelle is thrilled to announce its in-person International Premiere at the IX Festival Inclús in Barcelona, Spain on December 1st at 8:30pm at Caixa Forum. The film will be available with Spanish Open Captions and Spanish Audio Description! Director Atin Mehra and Executive Producer Delbert Whetter will host a post-screening Q&A at the event! #DerechoALaComunicacion
[Image Description: A white woman with short brown hair, wearing glasses and a burgundy-colored top, stands in front of a green background, holding a painting of herself that partially covers her face. Film title Being Michelle is printed across the woman’s forehead.] @festivalinclus 🤟
UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AT MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Get ready Mexico City!! Being Michelle will screen in-person at ReelAbilities Mexico City from December 1-3rd at the Lido Cinema located in the Economic Culture Fund Library!!! The film will be available with Spanish Open Captions and Spanish Audio Description! #DerechoALaComunicacion
[Image Description: A photo of a white woman with short brown hair, wearing glasses and a blue-colored top, sits in the middle of a drawing with images of a skyscraper on the left, an encircled eye, an encircled image of a person’s ear at the top, and a partially-seen reel of movie film top right, all connected by yellow straight and angled lines placed like a roof-top overhead. Movie title Being Michelle is immediately above the woman’s head.]
Features Overview
FESTIVAL Inclús BARCELONA, SPAIN 2023 AWARD WINNER
BEING MICHELLE wins its 13th award at the film’s International Premiere in Spanish at Festival Inclús in Barcelona! We thank the festival programmers and judges for recognizing Michelle’s important story. While Michelle’s own experiences of the criminal justice system are based in the United States, the issues raised in the film are ubiquitous and commonly experienced by Deaf and Disabled people around the globe. Michelle’s brave telling of her story will continue to support our fight to ensure the basic human #RightToCommunication for Deaf and Disabled people everywhere! @festivalinclus
Director/Producer/DP Atin Mehra and Executive Producer Delbert Whetter attended the festival last week and accepted the award on behalf of the entire BEING MICHELLE team!
IFAFF INTERNATIONAL 2023 AWARD WINNERS
Being Michelle is honored to have screened at the 8th Annual (In)Justice For All Film Festival and to have received the Impact Award! Thank you to the judges, the festival programmers and audience members who recognize the importance of Michelle’s powerful story as we all work together to ensure the basic human #RightToCommunication for Deaf and Disabled people in the criminal justice system.
Best Documentary Feature at Nevada City Film Festival
Being Michelle wins Best Documentary Feature at Nevada City Film Festival !!! Thank you to the judges, the entire festival team and everyone who came out to see the film, especially our friends at FREED Center for Independent Living and California College of Ayurveda!!! Thank you to the amazing team at The Onyx Theatre, Nevada City for making the screenings accessible! Sign up for the newsletter and join the movement! www.beingmichelle.com #RightToCommunication 🤟
3 Awards WINNERS at Idyllwild INTERNATIONAL Film Festival
The Being Michelle team is honored to have received three awards @idyllwildcinemafest2023!!! #RightToCommunication #SocialImpactDocumentary
[Image Description: A photo of a white woman with short brown hair, wearing glasses and a blue-colored top, sits in the middle of a drawing with images of a skyscraper on the left, an encircled eye, an encircled image of a person’s ear at the top, and a partially-seen reel of movie film top right, all connected by yellow straight and angled lines placed like a roof-top overhead. Movie title Being Michelle is immediately above the woman’s head.]
HOLLYWOOD
NOV 2-5, 2023
Stay tuned for Being Michelle screening updates at SignLight International Film Festival in Hollywood this fall!
More screenings to be announced soon!
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Past Festival Screenings
Being Michelle at ReelAbilities Film Festival NY- Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Screening & Panel Discussion
PAST FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
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Being Michelle's World Premiere and Atin Mehra's Directorial Debut occured at the 19th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in beautiful downtown Missoula, Montana, a 10-day exhibition of extraordinary nonfiction films from around the world! Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the only film festival in the American West dedicated solely to documentary filmmaking.
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#BeingMichelle Cleveland International Film Festival
While at CIFF RespectAbility hosted a panel discussion which aimed to discuss in more depth some of the issues facing Deaf/disabled people in the criminal justice system as experienced by the protagonist in the feature length documentary film, Being Michelle. The panel brought together Deaf leaders and advocates as well as individuals who have experienced human rights abuses in the criminal justice system.Being Michelle: Exploring Criminal Justice and Trauma through a Deaf Lens
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We won the Audience Award!!
Thank you Florida Film Festival and all the audience members who helped vote #BeingMichelle in! We are so honored!
#Onward #Documentary #Film #DeafAwareness #DeafArtist #CriminalJusticeReform #WhyISign #ASL #DeafCommunity
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Being Michelle won Best Of Festival!!
Being Michelle won Best Feature Documentary!!
Thank you to the team at Maine Deaf Film Festival!!
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While at BraveMaker Film Festival Michelle had her first ever art show and sold all 13 paintings! She also had the opportunity to learn about programs and resources for Deaf+ individuals in the Bay Area.
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Being Michelle won First Prize for Best Feature Documentary!!
Thank you to the team at Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival!!
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Being Michelle won Grand Jury Award Feature Doc!!
Thank you to the @awarenessfest jury for recognizing this powerful and important story! This award goes to Michelle and to the amazing team behind this film! #RightToCommunication #LoveAbounds
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What an amazing weekend Ojai Film Festival ! Thank you to the audience members who joined us, thank you to Rorri Burton for traveling to Ojai to interpret for the event and thank you to the festival and jurors for recognizing this important film! #RightToCommunication #SocialImpact #DocumentaryFilm #BestDocumentaryFeature #BeingMichelle
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Being Michelle won Honorable Feature Film award!!
Thank you for the honor of this award Rocky Mountain Deaf Film Festival🤟🙏🏽. And congrats to all of the other filmmakers 🤩 -
The team at Rocky Mountain Women's Film does such an amazing job gathering community. Screening our film here has been such an incredible experience. 🙏🏽🤟 #RightToCommunication
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Being Michelle is thrilled to screen at the Trauma Research Foundation’s 3rd Annual Film Festival! Watch for updates on the virtual Q&A to follow the screening!!
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Being Michelle will screen Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival on Saturday January 28th at 2:45pm.
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Last night was truly a special evening at @commongoodfilmfestival 😍🤟!! One year ago today #BeingMichelle had its World Premiere @bigskydocfest ! Last night we were missing many members of our team but we made many new friends and got to give @plaidervoteur a hug in person! Thank you to everyone who joined us. We are #StrongerTogether and every human being has the #RightToCommunication 🤟 @meikennedy @iamharoldfoxx @kelgunny @blackterplifetruebiz @atinmehra @maemehra
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What an amazing festival! Thank you @sedonafilmfestival !! #BeingMichelle will screen again tomorrow February 22nd at 7pm!! Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday. We loved seeing you!! #RightToCommunication
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The Being Michelle team is honored to have received three awards Winner Golden Era Humanitarian Film Award, Vanguard Award for Cinematic Achievement Director Documentary Feature, Vanguard Award for Cinematic Achievement Documentary Feature, @idyllwildcinemafest 2023
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Thank you to everyone who came out and joined us last night @reelabilitiesny @mm_jccmanhattan . We were thrilled to share this conversation with civil rights attorney Marc Fleidner @disabilityrightsny . Looking forward to the next screening today at 3:30pm @manhattanedu ! #RightToCommunication
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Being Michelle wins Best Documentary Feature at Nevada City Film Festival !!! Thank you to the judges, the entire festival team and everyone who came out to see the film, especially our friends at FREED Center for Independent Living and California College of Ayurveda!!! Thank you to the amazing team at The Onyx Theatre, Nevada City for making the screenings accessible! Sign up for the newsletter and join the movement!
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TONIGHT is the opening night of ReelAbilities Film Festival: Cleveland and Akron at 6 PM at Akron-Summit County Public Library. Come enjoy the film “Being Michelle.”
ReelAbilities is a film festival that promotes awareness of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities.
Learn more at reelabilities.org/cleveland/events.
#ReelAbilities #FilmFestival #Akron
Image description: A short-haired redhead woman wearing glasses while holding a painting while a sheriff's car drives behind on the road.
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Being Michelle is honored to have screened at the 8th Annual (In)Justice For All Film Festival and to have received the Impact Award! Thank you to the judges, the festival programmers and audience members who recognize the importance of Michelle’s powerful story as we all work together to ensure the basic human #RightToCommunication for Deaf and Disabled people in the criminal justice system 🤟
This year the judges were compelled to give an award to the film Being Michelle in this category.
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BEING MICHELLE is thrilled to screen @nhdocs in New Haven, CT on October 21st, 6pm at St. Paul & St. James Episcopal Church. 57 Olive Street New Haven, CT.
A post-screening panel discussion of the film will include BEING MICHELLE Advisor Dr. Gabriel Lomas @gabelomas , BEING MICHELLE Executive Producer Delbert Whetter @delwhetter , President of the Connecticut Association of the Deaf and Disability Rights Connecticut Board Member Luisa Gasco-Soboleski, & Director of the Department of Services for Persons with Disabilities in New Haven, CT, Gretchen Knauff. @disabilityrightsconnecticut @deafcad
The screening will have Open Captions, the venue has wheelchair accessibility, and 2 ASL Interpreters will provide interpretation for the panel discussion.
http://bit.ly/NHDocsBeingMichelle
#BeingMichelle #RightToCommunication #DisabilityJustice #DeafInPrison
[Image description: The New Haven Documentary Film Festival, October 12-22, 2023, reality at 24 frames per second. Logo includes a black and white film camera. The Being Michelle image is of a white woman with red hair and glasses holding a self-portrait of a young girl in a pink shirt bordered by a blue background. She is standing on a rural road while a police car drives behind in the background with sun coming in through the forest trees along the road behind her. NH Docs 2023 Official Selection Laurel overlays the image. Photos of the four panelists are shown and the event details listed above are written over a blue background.]
