In the heart of this holiday season comes a feel-good film about a business brimming with heart.
“Brewing Possibilities” takes you inside GET Café, the Main Line’s most inclusive coffee shop, where neurodiverse and differently-abled adults make artful lattes, work the grill and run the register. These aren’t make-work positions, they’re real jobs.
The film, which features staff and loyal customers, will celebrate its world premiere – complete with red-carpet paparazzi – at Bryn Mawr Film Institute Thursday, Dec. 11.
SAVVY had a sneak peek and can assure you: this documentary short is nothing short of extraordinary.
The filmmaker, David Block, has been legally blind from birth and is on the autism spectrum. Yep, you read that right.
Legally blind filmmaker David Block has worked at GET Café in Narberth for six years.
An award-winning documentarian and journalist, Block has penned more than 1,500 published articles and produced 11 documentaries, several of which have been honored at film festivals.
With his magnifying eye glasses perched on his nose, he also works at GET Café – that is, when he’s not teaching a journalism class at Temple.
“I didn’t want to be part of the GET community. I needed to be part of it,” Block says. “It’s gotten me through some rough times … The customers are very understanding, and it’s a safe place because I’m able to relax in public (which most people take for granted). No one comments about my reading glasses — there are never any stares or glares.”
The film chronicle’s the café’s impact as it percolates through the community.
Employees talk about growing up feeling isolated and undervalued, then finding worth and purpose at GET.
Customers extol the warmth that radiates from this Narberth treasure.
GET’s founder Brooke Goodspeed explains the genesis of her nonprofit, GETIncluded, Inc. which spawned the Café in 2015. Her son, Oliver, was born with Down’s Syndrome and diagnosed with autism at age 3, and works at the café.
GET Café founder Brooke Goodspeed with her son, Oliver, who’s now a teenager.
“It’s one thing to talk about this place; it’s another to hear unscripted personal accounts from the people who work there and those who visit,” says Goodspeed. “David has brought all those unfiltered emotions to life in this powerful and relatable short film.”
The world premiere of “Brewing Possibilities” will take place Thursday, Dec. 11 at 6 p.m. at Bryn Mawr Film Institute. $30 tickets include red-carpet, come-as-you-are paparazzi-patrolled red carpet arrivals and cocktail reception, and post-screening town hall with David Block, his film crew and GET Café employees. CC provided during the 18-minute film. Proceeds from ticket sales and donations will support the work of GETincluded, Inc. and the filmmaker.
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