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Best Judgement
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The Crew
Bob Macaux
Co-Director
First-time filmmaker who has done extensive work advocating for himself and others with developmental disabilities. He has studied Theater and TV Production at the Community College of Rhode Island. He has experience as an actor in theater and film. Bob is a graduate of the Advocates in Action RI Leadership Series and a member of the Down Syndrome Society of RI board of directors. He is also a gifted public speaker and shares his experiences as a person who has Down syndrome at elementary schools, colleges, and universities around the state.
Jim Wolpaw
Co-Director
Jim Wolpaw is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. He has been an independent filmmaker for 30 years. His work includes the Academy Award-nominated documentary Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date (1985), the feature comedy Complex World (Hemdale, 1992), and the documentaries Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson- (PBS, 2003 INPUT2004) and First Face: The Buck Starts Here (PBS, 2011). Jim currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Jimmy Isom
Co-Producer
Jimmy Isom grew up at the Ladd Center and served as an advisor and co-producer for the film. Jimmy had been singing all his life. Watching him belt out a song while “playing” a table like a bongo drum, it’s clear that he possessed abundant natural musical talent. He has always dreamed about being on stage and “being in show biz”.
Deanne Gagne
Producer
Deanne Gagne is a 2006 graduate of RI College, where she earned her BSW degree, and is currently employed by Advocates in Action RI as a Self-Advocacy coordinator. Having been born with cerebral palsy, Deanne is personally connected with the issues being addressed by Best Judgment. Doctors told her parents that she was not expected to live, and recommended institutional care. Fortunately, her parents said no at a time when many others in her situation were sent to Ladd Center. Today she lectures nationally and internationally about disability-related issues. Best Judgment will be her first film.
Michelle Le Brun
Producer and technical instructor
Michelle Le Brun is the President of Harken Productions and founder of HARKEN! Youth Media, which nurtures critical thinking, creativity, and leadership skills through instruction in the skill sets of documentary filmmaking. Her feature documentary Death: A Love Story was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and is currently being used in classrooms in over 400 universities and colleges in the US and Canada. Michelle is also adjunct faculty in both the Communications and FIlm Media departments of the University of Rhode Island. URI professor who was a producer and technical instructor for the film.