----------------------------Original message---------------------------- At an evening time during the week of May 21-28 (approx), on most PBS stations, an extraordinary, award-winning documentary will be shown: "When Billy Broke His Head... and Other Tales of Wonder," is a 53-minute documentary by former NPR documentarist Billy Golfus of Minneapolis. In the Boston area, the film airs on WGBX-TV, Ch44 on Sunday, May 28, at 6pm. "When Billy Broke His Head" won top honors at Sundance 1994. It is a provocative and entertaining account of the director's attempts to return to a career as documentarist after being disabled in an accident. Along the way, Golfus goes on-the-road to visit several leaders (as well as a few brilliant civilians) from the disability community. He illustrates his situation, and theirs, in scenes which are always revealing and often hilarious. "When Billy Broke His Head" offers the rarest opportunity: to bridge the chasm between two intimately adjacent worlds. Your disabled friends and relations will be thrilled and validated by Golfus' vision. Your shy, alienated, non-disabled friends and relations will be irresistibly drawn in to this very accessible and entertaining story -- and, all will learn more in an hour about the paradoxes of the American way of caring than they probably have learned up to this point from a lifetime of daily citizenship. This simple, sophisticated, thoroughly enjoyable film has been called "sheer magic," because it "excites, stirs, and illuminates experiences that we ordinarily hold at arm's length." This post is not a paid promotion, but a spontaneous endorsement by a group of very delighted recent viewers of the best disability film yet. Regards, Jean Jameson, Ray Ishigata, Byron Brown, Bet MacArthur, Scott Stevenson Arts Analysis Institute Cambridge MA c/o [log in to unmask]