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PBS has slated the premiere of the documentary In a Different Key, based on the eponymous Pulitzer finalist book, for Dec. 13.
The film, presented by Boston public media institution GBH, centers on co-director and journalist Caren Zucker’s search for the first-ever child diagnosed with autism, Donald Triplett. The film will trace the growing friendship between the Mississippi-based Triplett and Zucker, who has an autistic son, as she grapples with the future for her child once she is gone. In a Different Key will premiere on PBS at 9 pm Et.
Fellow journalist John Donvan, a longtime network correspondent and producer, co-directed the film with Zucker, a former producer for ABC World News Tonight and Nightline. The film features original music by Wynton Marsalis and was funded by Liberty Mutual.
“Really, it’s an untold story of an unrecognized civil rights movement,” Zucker says...
PBS has slated the premiere of the documentary In a Different Key, based on the eponymous Pulitzer finalist book, for Dec. 13.
The film, presented by Boston public media institution GBH, centers on co-director and journalist Caren Zucker’s search for the first-ever child diagnosed with autism, Donald Triplett. The film will trace the growing friendship between the Mississippi-based Triplett and Zucker, who has an autistic son, as she grapples with the future for her child once she is gone. In a Different Key will premiere on PBS at 9 pm Et.
Fellow journalist John Donvan, a longtime network correspondent and producer, co-directed the film with Zucker, a former producer for ABC World News Tonight and Nightline. The film features original music by Wynton Marsalis and was funded by Liberty Mutual.
“Really, it’s an untold story of an unrecognized civil rights movement,” Zucker says...
- 10/14/2022
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After a round of golf at the country club in Forest, Mississippi, one of the members bellied up to the bar and happened to see Donald Triplett, another golfer, approaching. "He said, 'Don, I'd like to buy you a drink,' " recalls Bubby Johnston, who witnessed the exchange. "Don said, 'I'd rather have the money instead, if you don't mind.' " That quirky behavior is typical of Donald, now 82, who has autism. But once he began displaying symptoms as a child, his parents were baffled because no one had ever been diagnosed with the disorder before. In 1942, Donald became autism's first-ever case.
- 1/29/2016
- by Darla Atlas, @djatlas
- PEOPLE.com
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