Marc Smolowitz

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 132: Director Marc Smolowitz on His Forthcoming Documentary, The G Word · 29 Oct 2018 podcast

I you know, I tell a famous story about a young girl who's six years old at a school who after a shoot, she came up to me and she gave me this big beautiful hug and she said, Mark, you're so great, you're so nice, you must have a really great wife.

And I looked at her and I said, Sweetheart, I you know, I am married, but I'm I'm married to a man.

I have a husband.

And she just looked at me and she was six and she was bright eyed and it like you could just see the connections.

You could see the like a little computer going off in her brain, and she rattles off back at me like all these words that are sort of like, you know, show her deep understanding of discrimination and equality and concepts that many people in their twenties still don't have their you know arms around.

And she's six years old and she gets marriage equality.

quality and like knew what prop eight was and it was just kinda like hm.

You're the kid that I care about.

You're the kid that I want to make sure you succeed.

And and then I started asking questions that kind of evolved into, okay, well, she's in a private school, her parents are are affluent, we're in Silicon Valley.

And there were sort of social problems that were happening with a lot of these kids who are growing up in affluent families, right?

And some of that stuff we can talk about in a few minutes.

But

I started asking a bigger question, well, what happens when there are no resources?

You know, if you get the gifted sort of sort of narrative unfolding in a poor school district or low income neighborhood, what does that look like?

And so I started to get super curious about that.

And that's kind of when the movie really took off.

And the sort of driving question of the movie became who gets to be gifted in America and why in the twenty first century?

And we landed on that thesis and so all the stories and all the characters that I've chosen with my team are sort of helping us answer that question.

And it's been this kind of robust

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