GOLETA, Calif. — The Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital Basis offered the premiere screening of the unique movie “I Am My Energy” on hursday night time on the West Wind Drive-In Theater in Goleta.
The family-friendly film shares the story of 4 inspiring people who face adversity, discover their distinctive energy, obtain success, and resolve to assist others discover and unleash their very own powers. Santa Barbara native Grace Fisher is likely one of the people highlighted within the movie.
Featured people in “I Am My Energy” embody:
Grace Fisher of Santa Barbara — At 17, Fisher had been accepted to the distinguished Berklee College of Music when she was struck by a uncommon polio-like illness that paralyzed her from the neck down. She spent months in a rehabilitation hospital, the place she realized the way to heal her soul by way of music remedy and adaptive artwork. When contacted by Make-A-Want, as a substitute of asking for one thing for herself, Fisher determined to create a basis to assist different disabled younger individuals make music and artwork. Along with main the Grace Fisher Basis, Grace is finding out music composition at UCSB. Fisher’s inspiring story is informed within the 2020 documentary “Wonderful Grace.”
Danny Gomez — Gomez is an actor and mannequin who suffered a spinal wire harm that compelled him to re-evaluate his life and objectives. Via his fortitude and perseverance, he produced and starred in plenty of award-winning quick movies for the Easterseals Incapacity Movie Problem annual competitors, which has led to job alternatives, together with a modeling marketing campaign with Zappos Adaptive and a visitor look on NBC’s “New Amsterdam.” He hopes to proceed to be a optimistic power advocating for the incapacity group within the leisure business.
David Francisco — Francisco is an completed singer, songwriter, musician, producer, recording engineer and spinal wire harm survivor. Three weeks after shifting to Nashville to attend the world-renowned Blackbird Academy, tragedy struck. In April 2016 whereas driving his bicycle, Francisco was hit by a distracted driver. His spinal wire was severely broken and his left forearm badly injured. He spent a yr in bodily remedy and rehabilitation targeted on regaining any mobility. He returned to Nashville 9 months later and graduated from the Blackbird Academy. Quickly after, he auditioned for “American Idol” and went all the best way to Hollywood week.
Wesley Hamilton — Hamilton is an award-winning athlete, speaker, mannequin and 2021 CNN Hero. Gunshot wounds left him with a spinal wire harm, in a wheelchair and deeply depressed. Nonetheless, as a single father to a younger daughter, he discovered his means out of melancholy by way of health and vitamin. He turned empowered. He’s the founder and government director of the nonprofit Disabled However Not Actually. The group works to carry positivity and hope to the incapacity group and past. DBNR joins group occasions to lift consciousness concerning the function of fine psychological and bodily well being in overcoming life’s challenges.
Nicole Evans — Evans is an actor, author, and incapacity rights and inclusion activist. Born with osteogenesis imperfecta, she is a full-time wheelchair person. She was chosen as one of many High 20 Actors from Traditionally Underrepresented Communities in 2020 by the Casting Society of America. She might be seen in her recurring roles on “Good Bother,” “Superstore” and “Particular.” In 2019, she gained Finest Actor on the Easterseals Incapacity Movie Problem for her function as Dr. Hubbert in Human Helper. In 2019, the pilot script for this collection, which she co-wrote with David Crabtree, was chosen as one of many High 10 scripts that includes a personality with a incapacity on “The Black Listing.” Evans is a graduate of the Gold Rising Program by way of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.
The Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital is devoted to offering wonderful take care of survivors of stroke, mind and spinal wire harm, orthopedic harm and different circumstances.
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