Marc Smolowitz
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773 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2022
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And, you know, and immediately like when I get the I get these kind of emails all the time, you know, where people reach out to me and they want to talk to me about a project.
And and this one immediately piqued my interest because I remembered being that kid in the nineteen seventies in public schools who was pulled out for gifted day.
and what that felt like and that whole sort of experience of how that shaped my identity.
And so I started to do research and immediately was was it I saw that there really had never been a comprehensive documentary on the subject of the gifted.
And I started to kind of go deeper and deeper with Ron and and it sort of evolved into a collaboration where by twenty fourteen we had decided to make the film together.
And, you know, we have been in sort of fits and starts, you know, filming these kind of longitudinal stories um as the movie has evolved, um, gosh, for you know, going on three and a half years.
And um
You know, I was, you know, one of those kids who was, you know, in the gifted program and in the nineteen seventies.
And that was a very different time, you know, for for gifted programs.
And, you know, one thing that sort of registered with me very early on was
I remembered that there were two types of kids in those gifted uh pull-out programs.
There was the popular gifted kid, and then there was the unpopular gifted kid.
And I was fortunate to be one of the gifted popular kids, uh, meaning that I had the right friends, and you know, my being smart was an asset and that got me to feel and be successful.
Whereas a lot of the other kids who were bullied or made to feel bad about themselves for being smart, I had great empathy for them.
And looking back on it, I realized that the reason why I had great empathy for them is because at that very early age, I mean we're talking like second and third grade, I knew that I was gay.
And I could see myself and that difference in them.
And that sense of social justice, that sense of fairness, that sense of standing up for what is right is something that was really baked into my um DNA very, very early.
And I think I had this consciousness as I was developing the movie that somehow those parts of my identity were gonna intersect.
And that that was gonna be a meaningful way into this story.
And there's been a bunch of beats along the way where that kind of confirmed itself, um, through interactions, through characters, through stories.
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