Normie
[Available March 27 at normiefilm.com via Vimeo and played March 21 at twincitiesfilmfest.org/streams as part of TCFF's encore presentation.] Striking cinematography highlights Kurt Neal's engaging, award-winning, insightful, inspirational, eye-opening, thought-provoking, 71-minute, 2019 documentary that focuses on coffee-obsessed, Gilmore Girls-loving, bibliophile, smart Annemarie Carrigan, who has Down syndrome and lives with parents Pat and Emily in Texas, as she struggles with loneliness, inner darkness, and desperately wanting to be normal and independent, and she candidly discusses with others around the country what is normal and what gives a person value and consists of commentary by Dr. Chris Berg, musician and pastor Josh White, speech pathologist Saba Fathima, author Amy Julia Becker, illusionist/communicator Harris III, and parents David and Katie Anderson and Peter and Penny Becker who have a child with Down syndrome.
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