Project Description

About the Film

Dan Habib's new award-winning documentary film Including Samuel examines the educational and social inclusion of youth with disabilities. The film is built on the Habib family's efforts to include Samuel, 8, in all facets of their lives, a journey that transforms each of them. Including Samuel also features four other families with varied inclusion experiences, plus interviews with teachers, parents, students, and disability rights experts. Including Samuel premiered in November 2007.

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About Dan Habib

Dan Habib is the director, producer, and cinematographer of the new documentary, Including Samuel. The film won the 2007 Positive Images in Media award from TASH, an international group committed to the full inclusion of people with disabilities. The film was named “Best Documentary” at the 2007 Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and in the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Exceptional Parent magazine said “Including Samuel is a must see film.”

Habib is Filmmaker-in-Residence at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. Until joining UNH in April of 2008, Habib was the photography editor of the Concord Monitor since 1995. In 2006 and 2008 he was named the national Photography Editor of the Year for papers under 100,000 circulation. He was a staff photographer with the Monitor from 1988–1992.

Between his stints at the Monitor, Habib freelanced and created a multi-media documentary project titled “Teen Sexuality in a Culture of Confusion.” The project was widely disseminated in video, print and website formats (DanHabib.com). His freelance work has appeared in numerous publications, including Time, Newsweek, Yankee, Life, Boston Magazine, Mother Jones and the New York Times.

Habib has been named New Hampshire Photographer of the Year six times. He has been a judge of Pictures of the Year and White House News Photographer’s Association. He was one of 12 photojournalists from around the world to participate in the 1995 World Press Photo Masterclass in Amsterdam.

Habib and his wife, Betsy, live in Concord, New Hampshire, with their sons Isaiah, 11, and Samuel, 8.

Project Supporters

Including Samuel has received major support from the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability, Granite State Independent Living, the New Hampshire Developmental Disabilities Council, the Endowment for Health, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and Easter Seals New Hampshire.

Additional support has come from the New Hampshire Disabilities Rights Center, the New Hampshire Association for Justice and the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire.

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Project Staff and Contacts

Dan Habib
Filmmaker in Residence
Telephone: 603.228.2084
dan.habib@unh.edu

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Resources & Links

Including Samuel website

Purchase Educational/Institutional DVD from IOD Bookstore

Purchase Individual DVD from IOD Bookstore

Opportunity to Host FREE Screening of the Film Including Samuel with Filmmaker Dan Habib

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Support Including Samuel

The Including Samuel project is built on Dan Habib's nationally acclaimed documentary film about his son, Samuel. Donations to the Including Samuel project enable Habib and other project staff to disseminate the film to schools and communities throughout New Hampshire, the country and internationally. Donations also support development of inclusive education curriculum, as well as Habib's participation in community forums and regional and national conferences.

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