JORDAN’S CAKE - https://youtu.be/fllNl31rGuI
Jordan’s Cake revolves around a young boy on the autism spectrum who‘s desire for chocolate cake is misunderstood by those around him. Watch our entry in the 2018 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Awareness Campaign! The campaign runs until May 2nd.
Mikkel Palmer stars as JORDAN. Mikkel is vision impaired, was born with septic-optic dysplasia, and has been diagnosed as high functioning on the autism spectrum. It was important to him to participate in this project so that kids like him “wouldn’t feel so alone.” Mikkel is my nephew and it was important to me to help him find a platform that fosters an understanding that different does not mean less, that inspires diversity and inclusion above and beyond race, and that empowers those who are differently abled.
Participating in the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge has been an eye opening experience. I headed a team we called Kindred Spirits. Kindred Spirits was a collaboration between those with and without disabilities. Disabilities included brain trama, dyslexia, unexplained seizures, ADHD, clinical depression, and blindness. Those without a disability were closely related to some who did, like one of the writers who had 2 nephews who passed away 6 months apart due to complications with cerebral palsy or the 4 of us who either had a brother or nephew with autism. Many of us had never met prior to beginning the Easterseals Challenge. But we created a safe space at Manual’s Tavern in Atlanta, communed for 13 hours and wrote a story that Mikkel and others in the autism community can identify with and support.
Mikkel knows that “being normal” is over-rated. My hope is that people get back to a place where we actually see each other; that labels and snap judgements take a back seat real social interaction. Do you remember Mr Rogers’ Song, “Getting To Know You... Getting to know all about you.... Hoping to like you....hoping you like me....?“ I think it’s time for a remix. It’s time the radio met this preschool jam.
WATCH... LIKE... SHARE JORDAN’S CAKE
https://youtu.be/fllNl31rGuI
We spent 55 hours (one weekend) making the 5 min short.
Many thanks to Anne McWhorter for providing her expertise to the project. Because no two people on the autism spectrum are alike, it was important to us to have a consultant on the film.
The awareness campaign ends May 2nd, but the message of the film will last until we all believe and agree to see each other as one.
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-Shanalyna
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Jordan's Cake - A Short Film by Kindred Spirits
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