Project Detail

Tell Them You Love Me

Name: Tell Them You Love Me
Director: Nick August-Perna
Genre: Black, Disabilities
Released: 2023
Duration: 100 min

Image of contributor Anna Stubblefield, courtesy Mindhouse

Synopsis

TELL THEM YOU LOVE ME explores the extraordinary story of Anna Stubblefield, an esteemed university professor who becomes embroiled in a controversial affair with Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal man with cerebral palsy. Anna says she unlocked Derrick's mind from his body by teaching him to communicate using a keyboard. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial that would challenge our perceptions of disability and the nature of consent. Through exclusive footage and interviews with those on both sides of the case, this feature documentary weaves a riveting and endlessly nuanced story about communication, race, and sex.

Details

Year: 2023
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100 min
Director: Nick August-Perna
Producer: Tamara Rosenburg, Andrea De Brito
Executive Producer: Arron Fellows, Louis Theroux, Hayley Reynolds, Ryan Chanatry, Mahalia Cohen
Editor: Seth Bomse
Director of Photography: Taylor Gentry, Grant Greenburg
Production Designer: Sydney Flint
Sound: Corryn Deegan, Robert Gongora
Composer: Jens Bjornkjaer
Principal cast: Anna Stubblefield, Daisy Johnson, John Johnson, Devva Kasnitz

Genre

Black Disabilities

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Mindhouse Productions

Runway East Soho
66 Old Compton Street
London
W1D 4UH

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