Temple Grandin

Production and year: USA, 2010 Genre: biographical, drama Screenplay: Christopher Monger, Merritt Johnson Director: Mick Jackson Music: Alex Wurman Medical topic: autism Description: Temple Grandin has been a professor of animal science at Colorado State University since 1990; she has achieved great success in her field by designing humane cattle slaughter lines, which are used today in most slaughterhouses in the United States. There might be nothing surprising about this, were it not for the fact that Temple was an autistic child. She did not speak a word until the age of four; her contact with her mother and peers was very limited, and for many years she lived in her own world, incomprehensible to others, while she herself did not understand their behavior. Her mother’s determination, however, ensured that she completed each level of schooling, despite frequent behavioral challenges, and continued to climb the academic ladder, surprising those she met—people who were initially, as a rule, reluctant toward her—with her abilities. She spent her childhood vacations at her aunt’s ranch, where her aunt also played a major role in her social development; there, she spent a lot of time with cattle and decided to revolutionize the flawed system of their breeding and slaughter. She achieved her goal, becoming an authority not only in this field but also on the subject of autism. She is the author of the acclaimed book titled: "I Was an Autistic Child."