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Up Syndrome (2000)

documentary film

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Duane Graves

The story

Using donated digital tapes and a camera purchased with money earned from an eBay sale, indie filmmaker Duane Graves chronicles a year in the life of his charismatic childhood chum, Rene Moreno, who was born with Down syndrome. After graduating from a high school for special students in San Antonio, TX, Moreno sets out to make his way in the adult world, optimistically battling the prejudices his condition engenders.

Catalogue themes and tags

Illnesses & Disabilities, Culture & Society, Indie, Documentary

Genres

documentary film

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