#FlashbackFriday #FBF Do you remember our Conversation with Ben Wu?
Ben Wu, whose short student films have screened at various film festivals and earned honors, including a Silver Medal in the documentary category at the Student Academy Awards (2005), Best Documentary at the Angelus Awards Student Film Festival (2005), and Second Place, Best Student Documentary Short at the Palm Springs International Festival for Short Films (2005), recently completed Cross Your Eyes Keep Them Wide for his Masters thesis project at Stanford University. The documentary screened at the 2006 Telluride Film Festival.
What is Cross Your Eyes Keep Them Wide about?
Ben Wu: Cross Your Eyes is a short documentary about the artists that work at a non-profit art center in San Francisco for people with developmental disabilities.
What inspired the beginnings of this project?
Ben Wu: Throughout my life I never really had much contact or interaction with anyone with developmental disabilities. And I think sometimes relatively naturally there is that fear of the unknown. So there was this slight uncomfortableness for me when I did encounter people with retardation, or autism. I didn’t know how to act, how to approach them. But that always bothered me.
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