Our Transform Trauma with ACEs Science film festival launches this weekend. We are thrilled to share the documentary, Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain on Saturday, September 12th, and Sunday, September 13th.  

• The documentary will be streamed from our Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Community. Click here to join. 
  • Registration is not required for viewing. You need to be a member of ACEs Connection and join this community site to watch the film this weekend.   

Our watch party weekend will be followed by a community conversation on Wednesday, September ,16th with the film's co-producers, Vic Compher and Rodney Whittenberg, as special guests.

• The community conversation will be held via zoom. Click here to pre-register. 

Both of these events are co-hosted by  ACEs Connection, The Relentless School Nurse, and The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP). We are grateful to Vic Compher and Rodney Whittenberg for making their documentary available for a limited time at no cost to ACEs Connection members. 

We hope you can join us for one or both of these events. Details about the film, the co-producers, and this film series can be found below.

Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their PainPortraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain is a documentary  film based on interviews with nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, doctors, firefighters, and first responders who rescue, assist, and help to heal the injured and traumatized—and also tell their own remarkable and often painful stories. The co-producers, Vic Compher and Rodney Whittenberg take viewers on a journey into a world the public rarely sees, depicting emotional costs experienced by professional care providers and probing the emotional consequences of professional public service.” To find more about the film, and how to rent or share it, and workshops and resources from the filmmakers, go here.

Vic Compher (below, left) & Rodney Whittenberg (below, right)
Vic Compher, co-producer and director of Portraits of Professional CAREgivers, began his “encore career” in filmmaking about 12 years ago and CAREgivers is his fourth project. His other films include: “Treasures of the Elders,” “ Peace of the Elders,” and “I Cannot be Silent”. All of his documentaries are story-driven, dramatic, personal accounts of real people’s lives. In a variety of organizational settings, Vic has discovered and witnessed firsthand the “passion and the pain” which dedicated, empathic, professional caregivers experience daily. For 15 years he has conducted workshops that have proven to be very helpful for these professional caregivers. Indeed, this documentary has evolved out of one of the most popular of these workshops called,“When Trauma or Death Occurs on the Caseload—Ways of Supporting Staff and Promoting Learning.” Vic’s exploration of the subject of secondary trauma has made it increasingly clear that society in general has many unrealistic expectations of its professional caregivers or public servants—indeed a profound lack of awareness and knowledge about the human side of providing professional care. 

Rodney Whittenberg, co-producer and composer of Portraits of Professional CAREgivers, has a varied and rich background includes a depth of experience in musical composition, recording, sound-mix and the scoring of films. He is also an experienced videographer and film editor, owns and manages his own production studio, Melodyvision, and he is a sought after teacher of filmmaking at a number of Philadelphia colleges. Rodney has been involved in the Philadelphia music and filmmaking realm for more than 20 years. He has worked on numerous projects involving real life situations and personal issues. More info at www.melodyvision.com

Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival Sponsors & Schedule
The Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival is co-hosted by ACEs Connection,
The Relentless School Nurse, and The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP). It is supported by generous filmmakers and producers who are making this limited-time access available for free for our members. The dates, times, and streaming processes for participation are outlined below. 

• Portraits of Professional Caregivers on September 12-13th in the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival Community on ACEs Connection 
  • Zoom Follow-Up on Wednesday, December 16th at 8p.m. EST. Here’s the  Pre-Registration Link.for the community conversation.
• Whole People: Part 1 on  Dec. 11-13th, 2020  in the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival Community on ACEs Connection Zoom Follow-Up on Dec. 15th & 8 p.m.  EST Pre-Registration Link for the community conversation.
• Whole People: Part 2 on March 14th & 14th in the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival Community on ACEs Connection
  • Zoom Follow-Up March 16th, 8 pm EST Pre-Registration Link
• Wrestling Ghosts on June 11-13, 2021 via the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival Community on ACEs Connection
  • Follow-up Zoom Discussion June 15th, 2021 Pre-Registration Link for the community conversation.
    

Special Thank You to Vic Compher and Rodney Whittenberg, Ana Joanes & PBS
This film series would not be possible without the generosity of filmmakers Vic Compher & Rodney Whittenberg of Portraits of Professional Caregivers, Ana Joanes of Wrestling Ghosts, and the public programming of Whole People by PBS. We are grateful to all of them for making this film festival free and available to all of our members. 

More about the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival can be found here. 

How to Watch the Film on Saturday, September 12th, and Sunday, September 13th:

1. Join ACEsConnection if you are not already a member (free). 
2. Join the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Community (also free).
3. Come back to the Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Film Festival Community on ACEs Connection on Saturday, September 12th, or Sunday, September 13th to stream the film.

How to Join the Community Conversation on Wednesday, September 16th:

1. Use this Pre-Registration Link to save your spot in our Community Conversation.
2. Join us for the live Zoom event at 8p.m. EST (5p.m. PST) on September 16th.  

Questions?
Contact Cissy White at cwhiteaces@gmail.com