Ep 042: Trans Youth and Giftedness

Marc Smolowitz is a multi-award-winning director, producer, and executive producer who has been significantly involved in 50+ independent films. His credits include films that have screened at the world's top-tier festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Tribeca, among others. In 2009, Marc founded 13th Gen, a San Francisco-based boutique film and entertainment company that works with a dynamic range of independent film partners globally. The company has successfully advanced Marc's career-long focus on powerful social issue filmmaking across all genres. In 2016, he received one of the prestigious Gotham Media Fellowships to attend the Cannes Film Festival's Producers Network marking him as one of the USA's most influential independent film producers. In 2021, Marc is currently in post-production on THE G WORD -- a feature-length documentary that aims to be the most comprehensive film ever made on the topics of gifted, talented, and neurodiverse education across the United States. The film asks the urgent equity question -- In the 21st century, who gets to be Gifted in America and Why?, and is poised to premiere in 2022. 

Listen to this insightful Parenting With Impact episode with Marc Smolowitz about the trans and gifted youth he has had the privilege of interviewing for his film, as well as his lifetime experience with advocating for and working with LGBTQ+ and gifted communities.  

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Neurodiversity is a vertical of identity equal to sex, gender, race, and class
• Gender Identity, neurodiversity, creativity, and intelligence fall under the banner of giftedness
• Parents have their own journey of helping their complex kids and becoming advocates

Links Mentioned:

https://www.thegwordfilm.com/ to find out more about his most recent film and to see Marc’s shorts- including My Family Still Calls Me Gabby

https://www.realboymovie.com/ 

We’re Here LGBTQ+ Experience & Giftedness webinar

Connect with Marc:

Email films@13thgenfilm.com 

Website http://13thgenfilm.com 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/13thgenfilm/

@13thgenfilm

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/13thGenFilm/

@13thgenfilm

Twitter https://twitter.com/13thGenFilm

@13thgenfilm

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcsmolowitz/

@marcsmolowitz

Parenting Gender and/or Queer Kids with Neurodiversity

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