Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Documentary > Up Syndrome
Up Syndrome is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 14 september 2000

Up Syndrome (2000)

Up Syndrome
If you like this film, let us know!
  • Infos
  • Casting
  • Technical infos
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Film quotes
  • Characters
  • Music
  • Awards
Released in USA 14 september 2000
Length 1h22
OriginUSA
Rating74% 3.7278653.7278653.7278653.7278653.727865

Up Syndrome (2000) is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning documentary directed by Duane Graves. It was picked up for distribution by CineClix shortly after its world premiere at the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, UT, and made available in the USA via Hulu. The movie - known for its playful, stirring and otherwise unorthodox approach to a more serious subject - has since garnered international acclaim as one of the most honest portrayals of Down Syndrome ever committed to film. Its director and subject, both lifelong friends, took home the National Media Award from the National Down Syndrome Congress in 2002. The film was selected to join the permanent archives of the United States Library of Congress in 2009.

Synopsis

Using donated digital tapes and a camera purchased with money earned from an eBay sale, indie filmmaker Duane Graves chronicles a year in the life of his charismatic childhood chum, Rene Moreno, who was born with Down Syndrome. After graduating from a high school for special students in San Antonio, TX, Moreno sets out to make his way in the adult world, optimistically battling the prejudices his condition engenders.

Trailer of Up Syndrome

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Up Syndrome

There are 8961 with the same cinematographic genres, 5279 films with the same themes (including 40 films with the same 3 themes than Up Syndrome), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Up Syndrome, you will probably like those similar films :
Educating Peter
Educating Peter (1992)
, 30minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Rating72% 3.6034853.6034853.6034853.6034853.603485
Peter Gwazdauskas, a special needs boy with Downs Syndrome, is going to a traditional school with regularly developing students. Originally, he was in a special needs school with autistic/special needs students. Peter was enrolled in a traditional school because federal law states that special needs students should be educated with regularly developing students in traditional schools. Peter's first half of the school year was not going well because he was doing behaviors such as making loud noises, rolling around on the floor, and being injurious towards other students in class. But when it was the middle of the year in January, things started to improve much better for Peter and he did just fine towards the end of the school year. Because of his improvements throughout the year, Peter received an award for being an exceptional student on the last day of school along with his other classmates.
De Corpo e Alma
De Corpo e Alma (2010)
, 57minutes
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities

The film tells the story of Victoria, Mariana and Vasco, three physically disabled young Mozambicans that live on the outskirts of Maputo. On a daily basis, they must face an endless list of physical, physiological and emotional obstacles that they each find a solution to in their own way by means of work, other activities and their attitude. The film explores the way they see other people and themselves. It poses such universal questions such as accepting oneself and how to find one’s place in society.
Thursday's Children
Thursday's Children (1954)
, 21minutes
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Actors Richard Burton
Rating72% 3.621543.621543.621543.621543.62154
Tourné dans l'école pour enfants sourds de Margate dans le Kent en Angleterre, le film s'intéresse aux visages et aux gestes de petits garçons et petites filles. L'école apprend la lecture sur les lèvres plutôt que la langue des signes, et le film note que seulement un enfant sur trois finit par acquérir un véritable langage parlé.
Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back
Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back (2008)
, 57minutes
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism

Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back covers four children who the Autism Society says recovered from autism. Each child received services from the Center for Autism and Related Disorders Inc. (CARD), including assessments, supervision, parent/teacher training and one-on-one behavioral therapy. The film presents documentation of therapy sessions along with interviews of the children who are now teenagers, their parents, therapists and the founder/executive director of CARD.
My Flesh and Blood
My Flesh and Blood (2003)
, 1h23
Directed by Jonathan Karsh
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Rating82% 4.1388154.1388154.1388154.1388154.138815
The documentary takes an in-depth at the Tom Family which mostly consists of children that were rejected by their birth families due to mental or physical disabilities. The film is broken up into seasons starting out with family taking part in Halloween in the fall and ending in the Summer of the upcoming year. The family's unconventional home-life becomes a foundation for the supports, challenges, and successes that they face daily.