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2023
2024

Being Michelle

NAI Direct Access

  • Atin Mehra, Director
  • Mae Thornton Mehra, Producer
  • Atin Mehra, Producer
White woman with short red hair and glasses holds in front of her body a painted self-portrait of herself as a young girl while a police car drives behind her on a rural highway. Sun is glimmering in through trees in the background. In the painting she is wearing a pink shirt and is in front of a light blue background.

About the Project

Country: United States

Being Michelle is an award-winning feature-length documentary film about a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse and now uses her artwork to depict the trauma she survived and heal from her past.