Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

Born: August 29, 1947
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons.

Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category “Heroes”.

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Movies for Temple Grandin...

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Title: Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Character: Self
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
An exploration of the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks was a fearless explorer of unknown mental worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.
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Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
Title: Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle , is the first in a two-part film series by Patterns of Evidence’s award-winning filmmaker, Timothy Mahoney. In this investigation he examines the journey to the crossing location, looking at two competing views of the Red Sea Miracle. One he calls the “Egyptian Approach,” which looks near Egypt. The other he calls the “Hebrew Approach,” which looks far from Egypt to the Gulf of Aqaba where divers have been searching for the remains of Pharaoh’s army on the seafloor. The investigation raises giant questions about the real location for the crossing site and its implications on your view of God. The answers to these questions point to one of two very different realities.
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This Business of Autism
Title: This Business of Autism
Character: Self
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
This Business Of Autism is an expository documentary film about the economic and societal benefits of employing young adults with autism. The film addresses the positive impacts of developing profitable businesses while leveraging the unique capabilities of adults with autism, at the crossroads of government programs, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and family.
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Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
Title: Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary about young people with autism, and how arts and creative therapies help them to lead fuller lives.
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Spectrum: A Story of the Mind
Title: Spectrum: A Story of the Mind
Character: Herself
Released: June 3, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary about autism and sensory perception that features live-action and animated segments.
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Speciesism: The Movie
Title: Speciesism: The Movie
Character: Self
Released: September 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Modern farms are struggling to keep a secret. Most of the animals used for food in the United States are raised in giant, bizarre factories, hidden deep in remote areas of the countryside. Speciesism: The Movie director Mark Devries set out to investigate. The documentary takes viewers on a sometimes funny, sometimes frightening adventure, crawling through the bushes that hide these factories, flying in airplanes above their toxic manure lagoons, and coming face-to-face with their owners.
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The Horse Boy
Title: The Horse Boy
Character: Herself (as Dr. Temple Grandin)
Released: November 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Michel Orion Scott captures a magical journey into a little-known world, in a documentary which chronicles Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff's personal odyssey to make sense of their child's autism, and find healing for him and themselves in the unlikeliest of places.
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A Is for Autism
Title: A Is for Autism
Character: Herself
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An animated documentary short made by people with autism.