Film Credits

Director, Cinematographer, Editor—Kenny Dalsheimer
Co-Producers—Kenny Dalsheimer and Polly Medlicott
Theatrical Director and Consultant—Richard Reho
Music Composed and Performed by—Annie Graves
The Ensemble—Kelly Calegar, Kendra Cumming, Virginia Dickie, Gail Dupre, Annie Graves, Eve Hanf-Enos, Margaret Heath, Fred Johnson, Megan Jones, Chris Mueller-Medlicott, Polly Medlicott, Richard Reho, Laura Spray and Karen Stallings
Assistant Editor—Erika Simon
Additional Camera—Lindy Chicola
Online Editor and Post Supervisor—Ian Krabacher
Motion Design—Teague Hayes
Additional Music Composition and Production—Aaron Keane
Additional Piano—Elmer Gibson
Mixing and Sound Design—Michel Marrano
Audio Post—Blazing Music + Sound
Executive Producer of Music—Eric Johnson
Edited at—The Groove Productions, Durham, NC
Photography—Ava Johnson and Alison Latimer
Fiscal Sponsor—Southern Documentary Fund

Bios

Kenny Dalsheimer (director, cinematographer, editor) is an award-winning filmmaker, video producer, and media educator and founder of The Groove Productions in Durham, NC. He has been producing locally inspired documentaries since 1996.  His first film, Go Fast, Turn Left (1997), aired on UNC-TV’s NC Visions ’99. Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (2000) has screened and won awards at film festivals and tours across NC as part of NC Humanities Council’s Road Scholars program.  In 2007 he co-directed Bending Space: Georges Rousse and the Durham Project which screened at fifteen US and International film festivals and aired on PBS in North and South Carolina.  He received a Triangle Access Award in 2009 from the Alliance of Disability Advocates for his advocacy film,  A New Kind of Listening; and the film received the 2010 Positive Images in the Media Award from TASH. Since 2001, Kenny has worked as a media arts educator with Creative Arts in the Public and Private Schools (CAPS) of the Durham Arts Council and has offered documentary arts workshops at alternative schools and juvenile justice programs. He received his M.A. in Anthropology from Duke University in 1985 and taught middle-school Social Studies at Carolina Friends School between 1986–1996.

Polly Medlicott (assistant director, executive producer) received her M. Ed. from West Georgia College and is a teacher, member of the Community Inclusive Theater Group, and Chris’ mother. A passionate advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, she has served on the boards of the NC Assistive Technology Project, NC TASH, and First in Families of NC. Polly supports the right of non-speaking people to communicate, and the use of facilitated communication (FC) to allow their authentic self-expression. A New Kind of Listening is Polly’s first film project. She lived in Durham, NC for twenty years and moved to the Asheville, NC area in 2009.

Richard Reho (theatrical director) formed the Community Inclusive Theatre Group in 2005, and directed the group in the creation and performance of “The Song That Greens the Earth.” He developed a unique, inclusive, co-creative process in which members of the group participated equally, creating material which was woven into a cohesive, artistic whole. Reho also facilitated the building of relationships within the group and its development into a real “community” in its own right. In the 1990s Richard lived in New Hampshire and helped lead a grassroots movement for self-determination for people with disabilities. In partnership with people with disabilities and the community at large, he co-authored and directed several inclusive performances including Vincent, a musical drama based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh, and Tandy’s Bishop, a play based on the writings of Eve Hanf-Enos, a young woman with autism. In North Carolina, Richard has worked with the NC Council on Developmental Disabilities and the Governor’s Advocacy Council for Persons with Disabilities, and has been a staunch advocate for self-determination, inclusion, and full civil rights for people with disabilities.

Ensemble

Kelly Calegar, Kendra Cumming, Virginia Dickie, Gail Dupre, Annie Graves, Eve Hanf-Enos, Margaret Heath, Fred Johnson, Megan Jones, Chris Mueller-Medlicott, Polly Medlicott, Richard Reho, Laura Spray and Karen Stallings