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The experience was good both times.As our film The Reason I Jump travels to festivals before its wider release, an old question starts to surface.

“The Reason I Jump” took me back to meeting him and explained much.

They have somehow worked out how to communicate. The robust ceramics he threw are visually and tactilely comforting. Tais was a tiny little bloke with a great smile. Turn them upside down and a name appears – “Tais”. They’re not delicate but their red clay bodies, deep green glaze and incised decoration are handsome and friendly. Four decades ago, in Kainantu in PNG, I bought a collection of ceramic items. The film’s unscripted narrative thread is cohesive and positive.įorgive me for finishing with a personal note. The left-hand edge of the screen provides visual cues illustrating what’s coming, suggesting that Rothwell and Mitchell want their film to reach autistic folk without startling them. They use alphabet cards to spell what they want to say – grammar and spelling both correct. Viewers may be surprised by the film’s demonstrations of qualities in autistic young people whose ability to speak is savagely compromised. Only in Sierra Leone does the film’s teenaged character Jestina find life difficult. Rothwell’s amicable and positive doco consists of interviews with autistic people from several countries and their carers. Novelist David Mitchell and his Japanese wife are the parents of an autistic child. One of its translators into English appears briefly in award-winning director Jerry Rothwell’s imaginative semi-documentary film. “The Reason I Jump” began as a book by Naoki Higashida, an autistic 13-year-old Japanese boy. Perhaps 10,000 cases of it are recorded annually in Australia. PREMIERING in January 2020, this relatively brief (82 minutes) doco examines an issue little known except in families where it’s a daily companion, often a burden but never beyond the boundaries that an undiscriminating Mother Nature has built around it.Īutism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that “causes a wide range of impairments in social communication and restricted and repetitive behaviours”.