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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron (pictured) said he plans to return to the director's chair after taking a year off to attend to the needs of his autistic son, who has shown signs of improvement.
"A lot of people have asked me why I haven't filmed anything; well, I haven't filmed because I put everything on hold to devote myself to my son. I was preparing a film and I left everything aside to dedicate myself to this matter," Cuaron said.
"I was very fortunate because I had access ... to experts and I had the economic means to go forward," Cuaron said Friday at the launch of a special DVD edition of one of his first films, "Solo con tu pareja" (Love in the Time of Hysteria), released in 1992.
The director of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Children of Men" said that, unlike many other people, he had the financial means to take a year off from work to care for his son.
"I had the luxury of leaving work for a year to dedicate myself a thousand percent to my son, who is getting over his condition and I'm now returning to work," said Cuaron, who declined to comment on his next project.
Cuaron noted that the debut work of his brother Carlos Cuaron, "Rudo y cursi" was screened Thursday night for the benefit of a foundation that helps children with autism.
"I support a foundation ... which I think is the only organization that seriously treats the problem of autism globally, because it's a worldwide epidemic. The levels are really worrying," he said.
"Now my son is already going to school and he's four years old, but we detected (the autism) just after the age of two and a half, when the doctors were telling me not to worry if he wasn't talking," Cuaron said.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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