INTO THE SPOTLIGHT (2023) Teaser Trailer
The new film from Emmy & Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Thaddeus D.Matula
DIRECTED BY
Thaddeus D. Matula
PRODUCED BY
Ricky Townsend & Thaddeus D. Matula
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, HPUMC
Michelle Cox
PRODUCER, THOUSAND FOOT SQUID
King Hollis
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Rev. Paul Rasmussen, Alex Yocum-Beeman, & Stephanie Newland
EDITORS
Miles Hargrove & Meagan Forsythe
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Logan Fulton
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Cesar Jasso
About || From the website
A heartfelt story of how a script, a stage, and a theater program composed of adults with disabilities celebrate their creativity, explore life’s complexities, and empower a community, in their own words and their own way—
INTO THE SPOTLIGHT is a documentary feature film that follows a Dallas-based theatre troupe, composed of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who are determined to write, rehearse, and perform their 11th annual original musical during the 2021-22 season.
A lot of the time documentaries that focus on disabled communities tend to be the experts explaining how these people feel, however in this doc, the film is crafted entirely from the point of view of the individuals giving them a voice.
Nothing is editorialized and neither are there any people speaking for or on behalf of them. Only disabled people are interviewed and the only people who answer the questions are the disabled people themselves.
https://www.intothespotlightdoc.com/