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Filmmaker in New Jersey

Hands to the Sky Movie

Filmmaker in New Jersey

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New Jersey has the highest rate of Autsim Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the country. Why? Probably the water. The CDC reports that Black and Hispanics were less likely to be diagnosed. Delayed access to evaluation and services. So what happens to Autistic African-Americans, Autistic Asian-Americans, Latino-Americans? Those that are under-diagnosed, under-served, under-valued, and under-protected? My little cousin, Klervo, who is on the spectrum, can take a piece of play-doe and sculpt something you would think was right out of a museum. What will his adult life be like? Being raised in the chaos of Elizabeth, New Jersey, how will he handle the temptations of drugs, sex, and violence through the lens of autism?

Meet EUGENE ABERNATHY, twenty-six, autistic and dealing with the recent loss of of his mother. Left behind with Eugene is an eleven year-old boy and a drug-dealing cousin. Which one is capable of being the man of the house?