Focus / written and directed by Anthony Levenson.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Levenson, Anthony, screenwriter, film director, actor.

Rotman, Seth, film director.

Fanlight Productions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depression in adolescence.

Learning disabled teenagers.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (7 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Boston, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by] The Fanlight Collection, [2017]

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

There are more than 15 million people living with learning disabilities in the United States. For teenagers already struggling with the normal stresses of adolescence, the combination can be paralyzing. Made while the filmmaker was in high school himself, Focus dramatizes the feelings of a withdrawn, depressed student with untreated, possibly undiagnosed learning disabilities. In an acting tour de force, Levenson embodies each of the multiple voices battling to control his behavior and demanding his return to participation in schoolwork and in life.

Participant:

Starring Anthony Levenson.

Credits:

Assistant director, Seth Rotman.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Anthony Levenson, ©2003; previously released in 2008.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).

Publisher Number:

fn-focus Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.