LIZARD GIRL
Entering
Organization
FEELGOOD FICTION Ltd.
Media TV
Country/Region United Kingdom

This fictional and touching story demonstrates how knowledge helps to build a more fair and tolerant society.
Meant for everyone, but especially for children between seven and twelve years old, it gives audiences the opportunity of sharing the perspective of a child who suffers from Autism Asperger’s Syndrome. This story helps us to see how beating prejudices makes friendship possible and enriching.
The proposal allows a sincere grade of identification with the main characters, and cleverly uses the rhetoric of the image to convey feelings and emotions without words. The sound, the photography and the narrative pace allows us to know more about this special condition, and to see the humans before the disease. It increases the power of adaptation and integration with “the different” while enjoying a tender and entertaining story perfect in its rhythm and duration. An authentic example of how television can be really educational and effective in the construction of a better “living together” atmosphere.

Life for children with special needs can be lonely and difficult. They can often feel frustrated, incapable, unwanted and ultimately different to everybody else. Our film aims to teach children to celebrate such difference and be tolerant to those with more need. We chose Asperger’s Autism because children with this disorder are often the most misunderstood. Their lack of social skills and need for space often causes other children to find them anti-social and think that they prefer to be alone. This is not the case at all. They just need you to be patient and understand that they are really trying. By looking through the eyes of LIZARD GIRL, children can better understand their daily struggle and learn to find the positive in everyone–you never know, they just might teach you something cool! Thank you to the JAPAN PRIZE for choosing our story. We are both touched and honored.

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