FILMS:
At First Sight A feature film based on " To See or Not See," a clinical tale in An Anthropologist on Mars. Starring Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Davidson, Nathan Lane, Kelly McGillis, and Steven Weber. Screenplay by Steve Leavitt and Rob Cowan. Produced by Rob Cowan. Directed and Produced by Irwin Winkler. Released by MGM, January 1999.
Awakenings Feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner and John Heard. Produced by Walter Parkes and Larry Lasker, directed by Penny Marshall, screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Released December 1990 by Columbia Pictures. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Received the 1991 Scriptor Award.
TELEVISION:
Awakenings A documentary about the post-encephalitic patients described in Oliver Sacks' book, Awakenings. Produced by Duncan Dallas, Yorkshire Television, and first shown in England in 1974 as the initial segment of the "Discovery" television series. Red ribbon, 1978 American Film Festival; first prize, 1978 International Rehabilitation Film Festival.
The Mind Traveler (US broadcast). Four-part PBS series by Rosetta Pictures. Christopher Rawlence, producer and director; Emma Crichton-Miller, co-producer. Episodes on "The Ragin' Cajun" (on a deaf-blind community in Seattle); "Island of the Colorblind" (on color and colorblindness in a small Pacific atoll); "Rage for Order" (on an autistic artist, Jessy Park); and "Don't be Shy, Mr. Sacks" (on Williams syndrome), September 1998.
The Mind Traveler (U.K. Broadcast). Six-part BBC series by Rosetta Pictures. Christopher Rawlence, producer and director; Emma Crichton-Miller, co-producer. September 1996. In addition to the episodes listed above, the U.K. broadcast included "Poison in Paradise" (a mysterious neurological disease on the island of Guam) and "Shane" (an artist withTourette Syndrome).