Blind Dog Films presents
Twitch and Shout
Twitch and Shout provides an intimate journey into the startling world of Tourette Syndrome through a photojournalist who has it.
- Genre
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 59 min
- Released
- 1994
About the film
Twitch and Shout provides an intimate journey into the startling world of Tourette Syndrome (TS), allowing the viewer to start to make contact with, and ultimately to understand, some of the people living with it.
Through the eyes of a photojournalist with TS, the film introduces the viewer to other individuals with TS, including a professional basketball player, an artist, an actress, and a Mennonite lumberjack.
Twitch and Shout is an emotionally absorbing, sometimes unsettling, and finally, uplifting film about people who must contend with a society that often sees them as crazy or bad – and a body and mind that won’t do what it’s told.
Press
What a wonderful, compassionate, funny instructive, inspiring, and flat out brilliant documentary…Twitch and Shout is an hour likely to change your opinion or change you, period. It doesn’t get much better than this.
The New York Daily News
Twitch and Shout powerfully conveys the richness and range of Tourette Syndrome from the inside.
Oliver Sacks
Marvelously moving (and improbably funny)
The New Yorker
Festivals & awards
- 1996 Emmy Award Nominee
- PBS National BroadcastP.O.V. series
- San Francisco Int’l Film FestivalBest of Category – Golden Gate Awards,
- Natlional Educational Media NetworkGold Apple Award
- Southern California Psychiatric SocietyBest Documentary Film category
- Charleston Int’l Film & Video FestivalWorldFest Gold Award
- Robinson Award nomination in Electronic MediaThe American Psychiatric Association
- New England Film & Video FestivalOutstanding Independent Video Award
- Award of Excellence & Pyramid for Distinction in Medical CommunicationsAmerican Medical Writers Assn.
- CINE Golden Eagle