Sales outfit MetFilm renegotiated rights with distributors to make deal happen.
Disney+ has secured rights to documentary The Reason I Jump from the UK’s MetFilm Sales, which renegotiated previous agreements with distributors to close the deal.
The streaming giant has picked up SVoD rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance-award winning feature for Emea and Latin America and plans to launch the film around World Autism Day on April 2.
The documentary is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English...
Disney+ has secured rights to documentary The Reason I Jump from the UK’s MetFilm Sales, which renegotiated previous agreements with distributors to close the deal.
The streaming giant has picked up SVoD rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance-award winning feature for Emea and Latin America and plans to launch the film around World Autism Day on April 2.
The documentary is an exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English...
- 2/18/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Documentary inspired by Japanese teenager’s bestselling book takes us into the world of young neurodiverse people from across the world
Here is a documentary with something to tell us and something to teach us. It’s inspired by the 2007 book of the same name by the Japanese teenager Naoki Higashida, who has nonverbal autism: explaining why he behaves as he does, when and why he feels joy and fear and why he sometimes jumps, why he responds with great and uncontrolled physical activity. It was translated into English in 2013 by Keiko Yoshida and her husband, the British novelist David Mitchell.
The original book was transcribed by Higashida’s mother by getting him to use an alphabet-grid prompt system, leading some sceptics to claim that the book was basically authored by her: a rendering of what she thinks her son is thinking, or even just a YA fantasy. But this...
Here is a documentary with something to tell us and something to teach us. It’s inspired by the 2007 book of the same name by the Japanese teenager Naoki Higashida, who has nonverbal autism: explaining why he behaves as he does, when and why he feels joy and fear and why he sometimes jumps, why he responds with great and uncontrolled physical activity. It was translated into English in 2013 by Keiko Yoshida and her husband, the British novelist David Mitchell.
The original book was transcribed by Higashida’s mother by getting him to use an alphabet-grid prompt system, leading some sceptics to claim that the book was basically authored by her: a rendering of what she thinks her son is thinking, or even just a YA fantasy. But this...
- 6/16/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The writer on how translating The Reason I Jump for his non-verbal autistic son was a lifesaver and his excitement at seeing the new Matrix film he co-wrote
Author David Mitchell, 52, was born in Southport, grew up in Malvern and now lives near Cork in Ireland. He published the first of his nine novels, Ghostwritten, aged 30. He has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, for number9dream and Cloud Atlas. He has also written opera libretti and screenplays. Mitchell translated the autism memoir The Reason I Jump from Japanese to English with his wife, Keiko Yoshida. Written by Naoki Higashida when he was 13, the book became an international bestseller and has now been turned into an award-winning documentary also featuring Mitchell.
What was your experience of reading The Reason I Jump for the first time?
My son had been fairly recently diagnosed. We had no idea what was...
Author David Mitchell, 52, was born in Southport, grew up in Malvern and now lives near Cork in Ireland. He published the first of his nine novels, Ghostwritten, aged 30. He has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, for number9dream and Cloud Atlas. He has also written opera libretti and screenplays. Mitchell translated the autism memoir The Reason I Jump from Japanese to English with his wife, Keiko Yoshida. Written by Naoki Higashida when he was 13, the book became an international bestseller and has now been turned into an award-winning documentary also featuring Mitchell.
What was your experience of reading The Reason I Jump for the first time?
My son had been fairly recently diagnosed. We had no idea what was...
- 6/6/2021
- by Michael Hogan
- The Guardian - Film News
The documentary is based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book.
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance winner The Reason I Jump.
The film won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award on debut in Park City in January, and will play as a Festival Favourite at SXSW in March.
An exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, the doc is based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English in 2013 by David Mitchell and Keiko Yoshida.
Jeremy Dear for Ideas Room, Stevie Lee for Runaway Fridge...
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK rights to Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance winner The Reason I Jump.
The film won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award on debut in Park City in January, and will play as a Festival Favourite at SXSW in March.
An exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of non-speaking autistic people from around the world, the doc is based on Naoki Higashida’s 2007 book of the same name, translated into English in 2013 by David Mitchell and Keiko Yoshida.
Jeremy Dear for Ideas Room, Stevie Lee for Runaway Fridge...
- 2/23/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
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