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Patti O. White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and television producer. Cutting her teeth at CBS News in New York, White produced for CBS Reports and 60 Minutes, earning three national Emmy awards, three Emmy nominations, and a George Foster Peabody Award.
At the time, 29 year-old Patti Obrow White had no idea how the story that she was reading would dramatically impact her life. The story was about a controversial alternative program for troubled youth called, VisionQuest.
Jun 15, 2001 · If I Could: Directed by Patti Obrow White. With Sally Field. A true story, IF I COULD follows the life of Tracy, a young woman facing the ghosts of her troubled past in a fight to keep her son from falling prey to the same demons that almost destroyed her.
- Patti Obrow White
- Sally Field
The film's director, Patti Obrow White, appears on Oklahoma local television. She describes VisionQuest's rehabilitation program for abused juveniles and her chronicle of the intergenerational saga of Tracy Marasco’s family.
- Multigenerational Abuse: Film Overview
- Theatrical Trailer
- Television Interview of Film's Director
- Film as Catalyst For Change
- Post-Screening Roundtable Discussion in Washington, D.C.
- Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Psychiatrist Urges Renewed Focus on Children
- Bureaucratic Obstacles to Funding Mental Health Care
- Cultural Brainwashing
- Mother's Passionate Appeal
Dr. Fred Goodwin provides an overview of the emotionally charged film “If I Could,” a film about child abuse, despair, and hope.
The theatrical trailer for the film "If I Could" gives viewers a glimpse of the multigenerational aspects of child abuse.
The film's director, Patti Obrow White, appears on Oklahoma local television. She describes VisionQuest's rehabilitation program for abused juveniles and her chronicle of the intergenerational saga of Tracy Marasco’s family.
Patti Obrow White acknowledges two Oklahomans who played significant roles in making the film. White hopes the film will be a catalyst for changing the way America thinks about its children.
A diverse group of legislators, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, students, and family advocates attend a screening of the award-winning film and contribute to a lively panel discussion after the screening.
An expert discusses James's trauma disorder and his resilience. She provides symptoms and details about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within the context of James Marasco's experiences with severe abuse.
Within the context of James Marasco's story, a psychiatrist talks about the failure of systems in diagnosing a child's environment, choosing instead to focus only on the "broken" child. He suggests a paradigm shift in how adults view children.
Experts and activists express their anger and frustration over bureaucratic problems in funding mental health care for children. Without political support from Washington little can or will be done to change the current failing system.
Bob Burton, founder of VisionQuest, discusses cultural brainwashing that robs children of their ethnic histories, America's penchant for locking children up in correctional facilities, and his ideas about handling abused children.
Tracy Marasco, mother of James and herself a victim of childhood abuse, speaks out about the treatment of abused children, secrecy in multigenerational families who perpetuate abuse, and her conviction about breaking the abuse cycle.
Patti White "If I Could" was directed, written and co-produced by Patti Obrow White in conjunction with the Filmsters team. In a sense, Patti White has been living with the story of Tracy for more than two decades.
The original CBS Reports crew from 1979: Patti Obrow White (center, bottom row), Cameraman Greg Cooke, soundman Jim Camry, Michael Miller and Assoc Producer Mimi Edmunds on the wagon train.
