“THE PERFECT FLAW”
Distributor: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, New Jersey.
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With a facial birth defect others would shudder to have, David Roche quit his day job and put his face onstage. With a delicious wit and penetrating soul, he has turned his own narrative 180 degrees. His flaw was the key to developing his greatest strengths, as a public speaker, storytelling coach and loving husband.
Onstage and off, he recounts in harrowing and hilarious detail the medical and social costs of his condition. But, growing up in a family full of love and denial, and with a public speaker for a father, David Roche becomes a renaissance man who doesn’t stray far from the spiritual plane – because his face is a make-or-break proposition.
“I like to fluff my hair up and go for that backlighting, so it gives kind of a halo effect.”
Running time: 26:40
BROADCASTS PENDING
FESTIVALS / AWARDS
Picture This Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
Canadian International Annual Film & Video Festival
1st Place, Independent Documentaries
2nd Place, Independent Films
Da Vinci Film & Video Festival
Best Documentary
Cleveland International Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
Santa Cruz Film Festival
Ojai Film Festival
Superfest International Media Festival on Disabilities
Merit Award
Athens (Ohio) International Film & Video Festival
Western Psychological Association conference
Moscow Disability Film Festival
20th World Congress, Disability International (Oslo)
REVIEWS
“Mike Grundmann has done it again. ‘The Perfect Flaw’ is a poignant, sensitive and inspiring portrait, a film that shows how coping with weakness, flaw and difference – the very heart of insecurity – can become a source of power, strength and humanity.”
Alan Berliner, three-time Emmy Award winner
“An important new documentary. A major message is that our face is not who we are. Our reviewers feel this film will be powerful for ages 13 and up.”
Let’s Face It USA, resource network
“In laughing at himself, David Roche tricks us into laughing at ourselves, and thus disarmed, we dare to challenge our fears and assumptions.”
Bonnie Sher Klein, award-winning documentary filmmaker and author
“A benign tumor consisting of swollen blood vessels.”
          “I had radiation therapy when I was a baby.” “My prayer is not to feel self-conscious here.”
USES FOR “The Perfect Flaw” Junior high / high school: health, self-esteem/character development, disability College/university: psychology, sociology, social anthropology, social work, Medical and nursing schools Hospitals: interdisciplinary craniofacial teams, affected families Workplace: employee, management and human resources diversity training Home: affected families and individuals Churches PRODUCTION CREDITS Editorial consultant: Paul B. Harte www.hartemedia.com Story consultant: Marlon E. Fuentes LINKS David Roche’s own website: www.davidroche.com Resource and support networks for individuals, families and professionals: “My family dealt with my facial disfigurement the old-fashioned way: total denial.” “I was listening to his conversation and I was just drawn to who he was. That was an experience for me of love at second sight.” “I was invited to this party in 8th grade. I’m sure you can guess the first game we played. Yeah: Spin the Bottle.” “You use your face the way I use my hands, so of course I connected.” “How do you people tell each other apart?” “I feel a really strong kinship with very attractive women, because they’re judged so much by their appearance.” “To survive, spiritually and emotionally, I have been forced to find my own inner beauty.” “That ability to be who you are in a deep kind of way is something that a lot of people don’t have.” “My ambition is to be one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People.” Mike Grundmann [Home] [The Perfect Flaw] [Face First] [Freedom Rings] [Fragile] [Bio] [Album] |
