8 Keys for Adults with FASD
Film Premier and Q&A with Cast Members
Friday, September 8 | 2:30pm
Bear Tooth Theatrepub
The Alaska Center for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), a non-profit organization, has announced their premiere of 8 Keys for Adults with FASD, a documentary film by Dan Redfield featuring seven self-advocates who experience an FASD sharing their stories and the strategies that help them to be successful living with this brain-based difference. The film premiere at Bear Tooth Theatrepub will be followed by a Q&A with cast members and the film’s producers.
The documentary film is a sequel to the 2014 animated short film, ‘8 Magic Keys: For Developing Successful Interventions for Students with FASD,’ created by Alaska special education teacher and FASD specialist, Deb Evensen, in collaboration with Jan Lutke and the Anchorage School District. See the 2014 animated prequel here.
The cast members of the 2023 documentary film, who developed the content with support from Deb Evensen and Alaska Center for FASD founder Marilyn Pierce-Bulger, established key success strategies and developed the interview questions based on those themes. Anchorage filmmaker Dan Redfield filmed and edited the interviews and produced the animation that features Mario, the narrator.
