Read Me
Narrative Feature
Clark Kemper, a 38-year-old high school drop out, never learned how to read words due to dyslexia, but he can read people. He developed this skill over a lifetime of navigating a world he can’t understand, and he uses his sixth sense largely to protect himself. Clark lives his life as a passive spectator. As a boy, he watched his mother walk out on him and his father. Now, content with the status quo, he works as a dishwasher by day and putters around in solitude at night. When he meets Rachel, a struggling actress with her own unsettling past, he’s forced to confront the ugly truth that life is passing him by. Can he overcome the one obstacle from which his intuition can’t guard him?
Director Biography
Fred Zara is a Producer, Director, Editor and Writer that has had his work showcased in film festivals all across the U.S. His 2009 feature length documentary, Average Community, won awards at film festivals in Orlando, Philadelphia and New York City.
Fred’s first narrative feature film, Read Me, was completed in the summer of 2015.
He is also a Video Producer for the tech education start up Treehouse, working closely with experts in the field of technology.
Director Statement
“Dyslexia is only one type of learning disability. As many as 1 out of every 5 people in the United States has some kind of learning disability. However there are not many narrative feature films that even discuss the issue.
After growing up with a learning disability and working hard to overcome it, I couldn’t help but wonder what life would be like for an adult that couldn’t read the world he lived it. How would he navigate the world? What other skills might emerge? That’s how “Read Me” was born.
By supporting this film you will be a part of telling a story that is not only personal to me, but to the 15 percent of the US population that has some type of reading disorder.”
