Insight to Strengths


Director 
Spring 2012, 8:39 min, color & b/w

Film Festivals: Global Peace Film Festival, Phenom Film Festival, International Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Show Me Justice Film Festival and the Indianapolis Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Short Synopsis: Directed through the eyes of a social work student, this short documentary illustrates the strengths sifted out of living in the minority status of LGBT individuals. The stories told are accompanied by the creation of art. This film employs the strengths perspective in order to reshape what it means to be different. 

Medium Synopsis: The strengths perspective is a powerful framework used by social workers all over the world. To find the positive and the productive outcomes of someones situation or choices can lead to empowerment and acceptance. This films employed the strengths perspective in order to reshape what it means to be different. This short documentary features different members of the local GLBT community as they sift out the strengths they have gain through their hardships. The film is directed through the eyes of a social work student. The stories told are accompanied by a live art piece that is being created as stories are being told. The purpose of this film is to showcase the unique, positive and powerful strengths of a community.

Director Statement: The strengths perspective framework is the backbone of social work theory. To take one’s hardships, obstacles, and misfortunes and focus on the positive brings about the kind of change that can actually last. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender population is a community I call home. My hope for this documentary was to highlight the strengths gained from the losses and barriers that come with an identity that strays from the majority. I interviewed over fifteen men and women from the Orlando and Tampa area to hear their stories. I want this documentary to reshape the way being different is viewed. I want others to see what I see, being who you are makes you unique and from that comes strengths and resiliency.

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