PAST FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:

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.

#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

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

Being Michelle won Best Of Festival!!

Being Michelle won Best Feature Documentary!!

Thank you to the team at Maine Deaf Film Festival!!

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.

Being Michelle won First Prize for Best Feature Documentary!!

Thank you to the team at Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival!!

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

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

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

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!!

Being Michelle will screen Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival on Saturday January 28th at 2:45pm.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.]