May the Fourth Be With You: A Love Letter from a Seven-Year-Old (Who Never Really Left the Theater)
There are movies you enjoy. There are movies you remember. And then there are movies that re-wire your DNA. For me, that movie was Star Wars. I was seven years old. And I didn’t just see it…I entered it. I saw it three times in the theater (that’s all we had back then), returning each time as fast as humanly possible. I remember feeling delightfully nauseous watching Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter spin away after Han Solo cleared the way for Luke to make the miracle shot. When the lights went…
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Dr. Robert Cochrane is a graduate of UNLV's Integrated Health Sciences department. He's researching the effect of improvisation and storytelling on Parkinson’s disease. He received grants from the Parkinson's Foundation and support from the Davis Phinney Foundation along the way. He is a popular, unique and high energy Keynote speaker, bringing joy, optimism and practical tools for people in the PD community to thrive today.
He has a background in filmmaking, with the Artisan Entertainment release, The Playaz Court, and two Stephen King-based short films among his credits. His father, Dan, was diagnosed with PD in 2001, which shifted Robert’s artistic lens to health. He made his first documentary, the award-winning Boys of Summer in 2004. There are two follow up films in the series with the fourth film coming in 2023.
He moved his family back to Walnut Creek, CA, where he grew up. He lives there with his beautiful wife, two teenagers who are, indeed, "all that" and is a proud care partner for his amazing parents.
