Nonprofit Futures Explored (FE) has launched a new campaign for the annual Giving Tuesday program, to raise funds to support intellectually and developmentally disabled adults in the Tri-Valley area.
Joey Travolta and Futures Explored (FE) are bringing Hollywood to Livermore this month with an inclusive film camp for those with developmental disabilities.
Today, as part of National Mentorship Month, the Sacramento Kings announced activations to recognize, support and recruit mentors to drive meaningful change for young people.
In the film, 70% of the crew has developmental or intellectual disabilities, said filmmaker Joey Travolta.
Joey’s program teaches filmmaking to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities at his main studio in Bakersfield and in partnership with Options for All and Futures Explored at 5 different studios including one here in San Diego. Some of the students of these programs worked on Carol of the Bells and other films that are streaming on the Inclusion Networks Platform.
Carol of the Bells, starring RJ Mitte and directed by Joey Travolta and earned the Audience Favorite Feature award at the San Diego International Film Festival in 2019. Carol of the Bells tells the story of a young man with a troubled past who seeks out his biological mother. His world is turned upside down upon discovering that she is developmentally disabled. Seeing her husband’s inability to work through this new discovery on his own, his wife takes matters into her own hands forcing her h