
Autism in Pink
Four organisations across Europe, funded through the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme, spend a project cycle researching how autism and Asperger syndrome show up in women's lives, a population that had gone largely unstudied. In each participating country a group of women with autism attends workshops structured around the Personal Wellbeing Index, the Cummins 2005 scale used to measure quality of life across areas like health, relationships, and achievement. Uppercut Films made this record of the project, and its content is simple: the women themselves talk, on camera, about what autism has meant for them day to day, the obstacles they have run into and the things they count as accomplishments. There is no narrator building an argument over their words; the film mostly steps back and lets the interviews carry it. Versions of the same film exist in Lithuanian, Spanish, and Portuguese for the partner countries, underlining that this was made as a shared educational resource rather than a single national production. The result is closer to a set of testimonies than a conventional documentary argument.