Tom K. & Amanda Dyer Directors of UNSEEN: How We're Failing Parent Caregivers & Why It Matters

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome the directors of the film UNSEEN: How We're Failing Parent Caregivers & Why It Matters, Tom K. Dyer and Amanda Dyer.

Tom K. Dyer is an award-winning director and cinematographer living in Nashville, Tennessee. Tom has extensive experience directing films for brands and nonprofits, traveling around the world to create television commercials, short films, online content, fundraising stories and more.

Amanda Dyer runs a digital marketing agency in Nashville, Tennessee, where she oversees the strategy and execution of marketing and design initiatives as president and creative director. Amanda has led marketing and creative teams in a variety of corporate and nonprofit settings.

About the Film:

Unseen: How We’re Failing Parent Caregivers & Why It Matters exposes the challenges and barriers faced by many parents caring for disabled or medically complex children and adults, with the goal of increasing support and resources for caregiving families. Through the power of unfiltered, compelling stories, the Unseen documentary cultivates compassion and serves as a catalyst for change for the caregivers in our communities.

Why This Film?:

An estimated 16.8 million people in America are caring for a child with disabilities or complex medical needs. The demands of daily life and chronic stress can negatively affect the mental and physical wellbeing of parent caregivers. With few who understand their situation and limited accommodations, caregivers often feel alone in their struggle.

The Unseen documentary takes a raw, honest look at the parent caregiving experience. If caregivers are ever going to get the support and resources they deserve, they first have to be seen and heard. Unseen puts faces and stories to this issue to enable change for millions of caregivers and their families.

Synopsis:

Unseen follows Jess and Ryan Ronne, a blended family with 8 children, including Lucas, who has profound disabilities requiring total care. Their situation has gotten more and more challenging as Lucas gets older and stronger. With limited resources and support, caregiving takes a toll on their physical and mental health.

It’s a common story among parent caregivers: the isolation, uncertainty about the future, lack of options, and a never-ending daily to-do list means the role of caregiver overpowers nearly every other facet of life. Video diaries from diverse caregivers featured in the film illustrate this universality, while interviews with mental health and policy/legal experts provide a broader view on the societal impacts.

Through the power of unfiltered, compelling human stories, Unseen cultivates compassion and tangible support for the caregivers in our communities.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things Home Care, with discussions
0:06.8	on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care matters. If this is your first
0:27.1	time visiting us here at the show we want to say thank you for taking time
0:30.4	out to be with us today. We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is and
0:34.6	that's why we try and make each episode here at All Home Care Matters,
0:37.4	something that will hopefully matter to you. Today we are honored to welcome
0:41.4	two very special guests, Tom and Amanda Dyer, the directors and
0:46.2	producers of the film Unseen how we're failing parent caregivers and why it matters.
0:52.7	Welcome.
0:54.2	Yeah, thank you for having us.
0:55.4	Thank you.
0:56.1	It's our pleasure.
0:58.0	I'll open this up for either one of you to answer or both of you to answer. What prompted you to make this film?
1:06.7	Yeah, we had decided that we wanted to do a project together anyway. We didn't know what it was going to be about, but we
1:16.6	wanted to do a documentary project. Just something that we were, we wanted to do something we were
1:21.5	passionate about, something that moved us.
1:24.0	And not long after we had, you know, decided to do that, we met Jess, who is the, you know, the main person in the film and heard her story and her family story and we were just blown away by that
1:40.6	We are not parents were not caregivers. We were unfamiliar with what families like
1:48.0	Jess does go through and so we were, you know, frankly, moved and surprised by all that we learned just in talking with her.
2:00.0	And that opened up a lot that we wanted to,
2:07.0	it was a story that we wanted to help tell
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