#064 Gifted Talented & Neurodiversity Awareness Week does #giftedjoy w/ Marc Smolowitz

Our Gifted Kids Podcast

It’s Gifted, Talented & Neurodiversity Awareness Week; and we’re Bringing Joy & Equity in Focus with this year’s theme.

As a proud partner of The G Word, Our Gifted Kids is delighted to raise awareness once again with a whole week of podcasts. Actually, 6 episodes! Where we talk about #gifted joy!

GTN Awareness Week Podcast Line Up

• Marc Smolowitz introduces the week with - #064 Gifted Talented & Neurodiversity Awareness Week does #giftedjoy
• Monday
  • #065 Gifted Joy & Gifted Play; Why it's Different w/ Kate Donohue
• Tuesday
  • #066 Why Gifted Folk Need Board Games! w/ Justin Ratcliff
• Wednesday
  • #067 How to Express Your Gifted Self with Digital Music & Art w/ Johannes Dreyer
• Thursday
  • #068 A Higher Skate of Mind for Gifted Kids w/ Josh Smith
• Friday
  • #069 Why Dungeons & Dragons is Gifted Bliss w/ Sam Young

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Our GTN Awareness Week Guest Links

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• Marc Smolowitz & The G Word
• Kate Donohue & Dynamic Parenting
• Johannes Dreyer & Beat Frequency Mentoring
• Josh Smith & Free Mind Skate School
• Sam Young & Young Scholars Academy

Bio

Marc Smolowitz

Marc Smolowitz is a multi-award-winning director, producer, and executive producer who has been significantly involved in 50+ independent films. The combined footprint of his works has touched 250+ film festivals & markets on 5 continents, yielding substantial worldwide sales to theatrical, television, and VOD outlets, notable box office receipts, and numerous awards and nominations.

His credits include films that have screened at the world's top-tier festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Tribeca, Locarno, Chicago, Palm Springs, SF FILM, AFI Docs, IDFA, DOC NYC, CPH: DOX, Tokyo, Melbourne, Viennale, Jerusalem, among others.

In 2009, Marc founded 13th Gen, a San Francisco-based boutique film and entertainment company (see: https://www.13thgenfilm.com/) that works with a dynamic range of independent film partners globally to oversee the financing, production, post-production, marketing, sales, and distribution efforts of a vibrant portfolio of films and filmmakers.

The company has successfully advanced Marc's career-long focus on powerful social issue filmmaking across all genres. In 2016, he received one of the prestigious Gotham Media Fellowships to attend the Cannes Film Festival's Producers Network marking him as one of the USA's most influential independent film producers.

In 2022, Marc is currently in post-production on THE G WORD -- a feature-length documentary that aims to be the most comprehensive film ever made on the topics of gifted, talented, and neurodiverse education across the United States. The film asks the urgent equity question -- In the 21st century, who gets to be Gifted in America and Why?. Learn more at: https://www.thegwordfilm.com/

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