Dina

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2017 IDA Awards 'Best Feature' Nominee


2017 Cinema Eye Honors Award Winner


Nominated for 2017 Critic's Choice Award


Featured on The Hollywood Reporter's List as
Major Threat For 'Best Documentary' Oscar 
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​★ ★ ★

"A truly thought-provoking documentary--uplifting and brutally honest.Valuable to those on the spectrum and their caretakers and all who work with and love them."

​​RECOMMENDED BY VIDEO LIBRARIAN

"Alternatively comic and tragic and best when its both at once, Dina humanizes a world of people who were only dehumanized because we allowed them to be."

"it occasionally feels as if we are watching a scripted film."

"Although there may be no fairy-tale endings, by the movie's end it's impossible not to wish one for Dina and Scott."

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Director: Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles
Runtime: 103 min
Rating: NR
DVDCat#: PRDVD3835
UPC: 888608667708
​Pre-book: 12/5/17
Street: 1/9/18
SRP: $24.95

GENRES: Documentary, Sundance, Biography, Disability, Romance, Comedy

SYNOPSIS:

Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge. Scott freezes when it comes to physical intimacy, and Dina, a Kardashians fanatic, wants nothing more than to share with Scott all she's learned about sensual desire from books, TV shows, and her previous marriage. Her increasingly creative forays to draw Scott close keep hitting roadblocks-exposing anxieties, insecurities, and communication snafus while they strive to reconcile their conflicting approaches to romance and intimacy.

In the follow up to their acclaimed feature debut, Mala Mala, filmmakers Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini construct seamless vérité scenes that lovingly frame Dina and Scott's vulnerable, yet matter-of-fact romance. Whether at the local nail salon, the warm beaches of Ocean City, Dina's racy bachelorette party, or on honeymoon in the Poconos, Dina captures the cadences and candid conversations of a relationship that reexamines the notion of love on-screen.
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