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EDGY New Film : Special Needs Revolt! A man with Down syndrome is on a mission to save America from a racist dictatorship

Special Needs Revolt! Is an action-horror-comedy film. The film's hero, Billy Bates, who will be played by up-and-coming actor Samuel Dyer, is a young man with Down syndrome. Billy wakes up from a two-year coma and discovers that the United States has been turned into a brutal dictatorship thanks to President Kruger, to be played by award-winning veteran actor Bill Weeden (Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.). Kruger has put all people with disabilities into institutions. Billy becomes the leader of a diverse group of resistance fighters committed to ending Kruger's reign of terror.
"Special Needs Revolt!" is also a satire on our current political situation, done in the style of Troma Entertainment. Lloyd Kaufman of Troma will appear in the film. 

Adrian’s latest work Special Needs Revolt! may seem edgy and even shocking to some. However, it demonstrates that he is growing and maturing as an artist. Special Needs Revolt! can best be understood as an art film.  It resembles many of the films in MOMA's (Museum of Modern Art in NYC) collections. It is entertaining, sometimes outrageously so—yet asks us to examine our own views on disability. 

Director/Writer - Adrian Esposito

Adrian Esposito is a young and prolific filmmaker. He is 29 years old and has already made eight films. Adrian's work has gained national and even international recognition, and both he and his films have won many awards. He won the prestigious 2015 NYSARC Self-Advocate of the Year Award and was honored to be the recipient of the ARC National Executives 2016 NCE Lifetime Achievement Award in filmmaking. In 2016, he was named “Filmmaker of the Year” at the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival and his film Diffability Hollywood won as Best Documentary Feature at the same festival.
His films have also won the Los Angeles Red Nation Film Festival Courage Award twice, and his film We Can Shine: From Institutions to Independence has been named Best Documentary. He is a spokesperson for self-advocates, helping the world accept people with disabilities as capable and thus seeing their disabilities as “diffabilities.”
The topic of disability representation  is close to Adrian’s heart, since he is himself a part of the disability community. Adrian has autism. His life experiences bring a unique perspective to his films that resonate with many people facing similar challenges in life.
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