Mar 15
New York International Children's Film Festival New York, NY
TicketsAaron Lemle
Director of the Sloan Science Film BAT BOY
Bat Boy— Celebrating Black Stories: Urban Ecologies
Program Description
What makes for healthy and happy homes and habitats for the many members of a community? How do we decide who, or what, makes up the community; what obstacles or questions need to be considered for a healthy urban ecology, and who gets a say? Bat Boy filmmaker Aaron Lemle will discuss his neuroscience background and how he rolled important issues around healthy urban environments into his short film. Aaron will walk young audiences through the film's themes and ideas around how to create positive social, environmental, and cultural connections for inhabitants of all backgrounds, ages, and even species!
Film Synopsis
One day, when his beloved bats go missing, Andre enlists the help of a jaded biologist to find out what happened.
Andre, a young man on the autism spectrum, is passionate about the bats that live in the highway underpass next to his house in East LA. When one day the bats go missing, he enlists the help of a jaded biologist to find out what happened.
About the Speaker
Aaron Lemle, director of the Sloan Science Film BAT BOY. Aaron recently received his MFA from the school of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. Prior to UCLA, he was the lead producer on the Emmy-award winning PBS series, Articulate with Jim Cotter. He also worked at the National Science Foundation and the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience lab at Stanford University. He hopes to use film to inspire audiences to care about science and the environment