A MOTHER´S COURAGE: TALKING BACK TO AUTISM (AKA SUNSHINE BOY) - dir. FRIDRIK THÓR FRIDRIKSSON

Synopsis: A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism is a moving, compassionate portrayal of a mother´s desperate quest to understand the perplex condition that controls her son. A journey through different countries and cultures, where every stop-over opens a new path into the depths of autism – and places her son in a strikingly different perspective as the journey reaches the end.

Original title: Sólskinsdrengurinn
English title: A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism
Genre: Documentary
Language: English

Director: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
Narrator: Kate Winslet
Editor: Thurídur Einarsdóttir
Director of Photography: Jón Karl Helgason
Music: Sigur Rós, Björk
Sound Design: Kjartan Kjartansson
Colorist: Steinthór Birgirsson
Sound Recordist: Jacob Trier
Production Assistants: Eva Hrönn Steindórsdóttir, Alana Odegard, Kolfinna Baldvinsdóttir, Hlín Jóhannesdóttir
Production Coordinator UK: Bonamy Devas
Research and Co-Production manager: Vilborg Einarsdóttir
Producer: Margrét Dagmar Ericsdottir
Executive Prodcuer: Kristín Ólafsdóttir
Associate Producer: John Purdie
Production Company: Frontier Filmworks
In association with: Klikk Productions
Website: http://amotherscourage.org/

Country: Iceland
Length: 103 minutes
Film gauge/aspect ratio: 16:9
Premiere date and year: January 9. 2009

Festivals
2009:
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
Pusan International Film Festival 2009
2010:
Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden, January 29.-February 8.
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Athens, Greece, March 12.-21.
Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, Icelandic and Norwegian Day, Gdynia, Poland, May 24. - 29.

"The Sunshine Boy" is an extraordinarily beautiful docu: Fridriksson frames
everything as if it were a romantic feature, and despite the deluge of often
dry fact, the pure aesthetics of the movie keep one watching. Often enough,
those facts and people are fascinating, too."

By Variety critic John Anderson

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941130.html?categoryid=31&cs=1