My Uncle Joe Featured Documentary the REAL STORY like Forrest Gump living, breathing, and dreaming

My Uncle Joe is the inspiring, resilient story of Joe Rogers. This featured Documentary is a REAL and TRUE STORY as if Forrest Gump, living, breathing, and dreaming. Joe Rogers – My Uncle Joe – plays the blues. And he lived it, spending half his time in an institution for people labeled "mentally retarded." But Joe left the institution, resolved and resilient and lives his full life in the community that had rejected him. In this Featured Documentary film profile, Joe's nephew, filmmaker Bill Rogers (W. C. Rogers) amplifies Joe's voice and magnifies his image so that no one will dismiss Joe Rogers again. In the process of the film, Joe returns to Fernald State School and the Templeton Colony. He shows staff there just how far he has come. He finds his way through the complicated world we all find ourselves in, choosing not only what he wants in his life, but how he wants it. Cheryl Chisolm calls Joe and the film "Unforgettable." A choice for the select MacArthur Foundation Video Library and nominated for an Emmy and the recipient of a Blue Ribbon at the American Film & Video Festival and Outstanding Video at the New England Film & Video Festival.

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