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Eichelberger Film Becoming Bulletproof

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I was fortunate enough to attend the Eichelberger Film Dayton Festival on Sunday and screened the film Becoming Bulletproof, which follows an organization of filmmakers called the Zeno Mountain Farm who each year invite disabled people to their headquarters and make movies. This year they decided to do a western and enter it into film festivals which means that they would have to increase the hard work that they do putting it all together. The film follows the many different types of disabled people that they invite and also show the regulars and a newcomer to the cast of people that they invite. It depicts the relationships that are formed between the disabled people and the caretakers (who are more like best friends) as they interact and
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