The documentary film 'My Favorite Child' by Roger M. Richards is the story of Dwight Core, Jr. and his family.

A home movie shot decades ago by his father Dwight Core, Sr., portrays the love a boy with Down syndrome shares with his four sisters, but also a heartache common to the era's disabled: leaving home for an institution.

The little boy, Dwight Core, Jr., is now a tall, 48-year-old man who enjoys coloring and watching television in the living room of the Ocean View section of Norfolk, Virginia home he shares with one of his sisters, Cindy Klingler.

The old film might all still be sitting in a dusty box somewhere if not for Dwight Sr.'s grandson, George Ingmire. In 1995, he started rummaging through a tangle of film spools he inherited after his grandfather's death.

Instead, an unexpected audio tape caught his attention. On it, his grandfather's voice is telling a story. Trying to explain. Describing his son, Dwight Core Jr., Ingmire's uncle.

Ingmire pulled film strips from the box, held them up to a lamp and soon found footage of a boy with a buzz haircut that seemed to go with his grandfather's audio tape. Then images of four other children: the sisters to the boy, one of them Ingmire's mother. He began piecing the film and the words together.In December 2006, decades after filmmaker Dwight Core, Sr. shot the first frame, the film about his son, entitled "Think of Me First as a Person", won a special honor: one of only a handful of amateur movies accepted into the Library of Congress.

In 2007, filmmaker Roger M. Richards brought the story of Dwight Core, Jr. to the present, documenting him as a grown man and the continuing love and devotion of his sisters to their brother.

filmmaker: Roger M. Richards
Roger Richards is a documentary video producer with The Drew Carey Project at Reason.tv. He was Multimedia Editor/Producer for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia from 2001 to 2007. As a photojournalist in the 1980's and 1990's, among the many events he covered were the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the US invasion of Panama, political upheaval in Haiti, civil war in Croatia and the siege of Sarajevo. He is a former contract photographer with the Gamma Liaison photo agency (now Getty Images), Associated Press photo bureau chief in Bogotá, Colombia (1994-1995), and a staff photographer at the Washington Times in Washington, DC (1997-2001). He is the recipient of numerous awards from the National Press Photographers' Association, the White House News Photographers' Association, Pictures of the Year International, the Society of Newspaper Design, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Virginia News Photographers Association. He was awarded the first White House News Photographers' Association sabbatical grant for video journalism in 2000. He is a faculty member of the famous Platypus Workshop that trains photojournalists how to become digital filmmakers and video journalists.