Bat Boy
A young man on the autism spectrum is obsessed with the bats living in an underpass near his east Los Angeles home. When they go missing, he gets a jaded biologist to help him find out what happened.
Filmmaker: Aaron Lemle
Running Time: 20 mins
Language: English with Open Captions
Type: Student Film – Short
School: UCLA
Aaron Lemle recently received his MFA in Producing and Directing from UCLA’s school of Theater, Film and Television; he wrote, produced, and directed Bat Boy as a student production. Before enrolling at UCLA, he was the lead producer on the Emmy-award winning PBS series Articulate with Jim Cotter. He has also worked at the National Science Foundation and the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience lab at Stanford University. He hopes to use film to inspire audiences to care about science and the environment. aaronlemle.com