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✝️ God above all. Musician, Actor, Filmmaker 🎬@fishdontcarefilm and Author of Shouting At Leaves 📙 My music is on most platforms 🎸
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Raise your Jen Soda™️ (Coke Zero, cherry juice and cherries) to celebrate: it’s been a week since Jen and “The Fish Don’t Care When it Rains” team won the big Heartland Film Festival Doc Grand Prize and Richard D. Propes Doc Social Impact Award! Jen, proud to call you a friend - we miss you here in Indy! #thefishdontcarewhenitrains #jenmsumba #hff35 #heartlandfilmfestival
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We are at it again!! STARS of the Spectrum Album 3 dropped today!! I wrote track 3, “Thank You for the Wings,” and am grateful to have some incredibly talented friends join me to create this heartfelt song! Stream it and ALL the amazing songs on the album! You’ll hear my voice on other tracks too! Check it out!!
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STARS OF THE SPECTRUM VOL 3...... NOW AVAILABLE on all Streaming Platforms! Link in Bio! #explorepage #newmusic #mood #love #autism
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Incredibly proud to announce that Stars Of The Spectrum Volume 3 Is Now Available on All Streaming Platforms!! This is the 3rd editions of an album series by me and many artists on the Autism Spectrum that are not only talented artists in their own rights but also my best friends!! I’m incredibly happy and honored that I get to work on this project with these guys and I cannot wait for you all to hear it. Go stream all the songs off the album and let us know what you think of it!! I participated in the following songs Humanlevel with Ne10 & Adin Boyer There For You With Tom Ladka #music #starsofthespectrum #flutiefoundation #melodicbass #edm
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@fishdontcarefilm is something worth making known! Share this and let’s bring more awareness to what’s happening.
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The Fish Don’t Care When It Rains just took home THREE incredible awards at the 35th Heartland International Film Festival! 🏆 ✨ Documentary Feature Grand Prize ✨ Overall Documentary Audience Choice Award ✨ Richard D. Propes Documentary Social Impact Award Huge thanks to Artistic Director Greg Sorvig and the whole Heartland team for creating such an inclusive, kind and premium festival. To the brilliant filmmakers, audiences and everyone we met along the way; thank you for the conversations, encouragement and unfiltered love for this film. I'm so proud of Jen @jennifermsumba for so fearlessly telling her story and for what she creates and puts out into the world. Co-directing this film with Jen over the last couple of year has been humbling, fun and rewarding. 💪 And forever grateful for my fellow Producer Tony (the-magician)! @tonyarmer #threemusketeers Bravo to the whole team 💚 @themarcelarada @mike_ladouceur, @zebeditor @JoshCsehak, Rich Rodman, Scott, Britney, Amanda, @anna_kristina.h , Scott Goldberg, @champandpepper , Janelle & everyone doing their magic behind the scenes. 🙏 Taking a moment to recognise all the Execs, advocates and change-makers that without whom, the film surely wouldn't be where it is today: @wandabhope , @iamsusangallagher, Mary Rachel, @nancyfoundry , Don Spandier, @michaeldelmonte , Tari Hartman Squire, Marcie Roth, @judyrybak , @don_spandier, Patrik, Heading For Change: Suzanne Biegel & Dani Maskit Endowment, @feralprincessxoxo and The Lily Endowment Fund. We are on mission with this film and the fuse has been lit...watch this space! :)
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Director Jen Msumba accepts the Documentary Feature Grand Prize at the 35th Heartland Film Festival. 🎬 “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐭 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬” 🔹 Documentary Feature Grand Prize ($20,000 Cash Prize) Underwritten by Lilly Endowment 🔹 Richard D. Propes Documentary Social Impact Award ($2,000 Cash Prize) Underwritten by Lisa and Jeff Breall 🔹Overall Documentary Audience Choice After seven years inside the Judge Rotenberg Center, where painful electric shocks were used as behavioral “treatment,” autistic artist Jen Msumba escaped and fought back. “The Fish Donʼt Care When It Rains” tells her story through testimony, music and art, exposing systemic failures while celebrating resilience, creativity, hope and justice. Director @jennifermsumba Director & Producer @shiv.mcdonell Producer @tonyarmer Stream “The Fish Don’t Care When It Rains” and other select award-winning films through October 25. 🔗 Link in bio. #heartlandfilm #HFF35
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🏆 IT’S A SWEEP!!! THREE AWARDS AT HEARTLAND! 🏆 I’m beyond thrilled to share that our documentary, The Fish Don’t Care When It Rains, just won THREE AWARDS at the 35th Heartland International Film Festival! 🏆 Documentary Feature Grand Prize 🏆 Overall Documentary Audience Choice Award 🏆 Richard D. Propes Documentary Social Impact Award WOW! What an incredible way to celebrate our world premiere! I couldn’t be more proud of @jennifermsumba and everything she’s accomplished. Jen, your courage, determination, and passion for making a difference are what this film is all about. I’m so grateful to be part of your journey! And @shiv.mcdonell , our amazing co-director and producer, I can’t thank you enough for everything you’ve put into this film. Your talent, guidance, and hard work helped make this Film what it is . I’m incredibly grateful for everything you brought to it! A HUGE thank you to @heartlandfilm Film Festival, Artistic Director @gsorvig, and the entire Heartland team! The kindness, generosity, and support you showed us were incredible. You embraced Jennifer and our film with open arms, and we made some new friends along the way. And a special thank you to our amazing executive producers @wandabhope and @iamsusangallagher, @maryrachel8 and to @nancyfoundry for all your support, hard work, and belief in Jennifer and this film. We couldn’t have done without you. And to everyone who came out, watched the film, shared their stories, and supported us, THANK YOU! And we’re just getting started! We’ve submitted the film for Oscar qualification and are finishing our theatrical run at LOOK Cinemas Bedford in Dallas through October 22! Thank you to EVERYONE who believed in this film, and to everyone who didn’t, because you just gave us more fuel. Can’t wait to see what happens next. #TheFishDontCareWhenItRains #HeartlandFilmFestival #DocumentaryFilm #IndependentFilm
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Let’s give a huge congratulations to EDFC alumni Jennifer Msumba for winning THREE awards at the 2026 Heartland Film Festival for her film The Fish Don’t Care When It Rains. Jennifer worked hard on this incredible film that began as a short for the film challenge and turned it in to a feature during her time in our Adobe alumni grant program. She’s now the recipient of Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature, Documentary Audience Award and the Richard Propes Award from the Heartland Film Festival. We’re so proud of Jennifer and for the world to see this very important and powerful film. ID: Heartland Film Festival logo and THE FISH DON’T CARE WHEN IT RAINS winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature. Heartland Film Festival logo and THE FISH DON’T CARE WHEN IT RAINS winner of the Documentary Audience Award. Heartland Film Festival logo and THE FISH DON’T CARE WHEN IT RAINS winner of the Richard Propes Award. Jennifer Msumba poses on the red carpet with festival runners and filmmakers at the Heartland Film Festival. @jennifermsumba @fishdontcarefilm @heartlandfilm #EDFCalumni #successstories
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I've been so eager to see The Fish Don't Care When It Rains ( @fishdontcarefilm ) with the incredibly talented @jennifermsumba! She's so resilient and inspirational! If you have a chance to support this film, I urge you to check it out! I saw it tonight and it was fantastic! Thanks Jen and @tonyarmer for the Q&A session. Jen, I really enjoyed hearing about your musical influences! https://youtu.be/5qtGNv1VEfM?is=lHueCHpLwkZoXfgp
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NEW ALBUM ALERT!!!! Pre-save Link in Bio. Stars of the Spectrum Vol. 3 releasing on October 23rd! @starsofthespectrumrecords @flutiefdn @bignightrecords #autism #shine #edm #positivevibes #foryou
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Thank you to @heartlandfilm for hosting screenings of our 2026 @disabilityfilmchallenge finalists at your 35th annual @theacademy #award #qualifying festival! It was so great to see some of our filmmakers there. We also want to give @jennifermsumba a big congrats on having her film @fishdontcarefilm premiere at the festival! We also want to thank @eastersealscrossroads for promoting the screening and for having so many people attend! ID: Photo 1: a big group of people with and without disabilities pose for a picture smiling in front of the Heartland film step and repeat. Photo 2: @nicnovicki stands with a microphone with a Heartland Staff member inside the theater in front of the screen with the Heartland film festival logo. Photo 3: audience members sit in their seats inside the theater during the screening. Photo 4: a big group of people with and without disabilities inside the theater in front of the screen with the heartland film festival logo. #heartlandfilmfestival #edfc2026 #disabilityfilmchallenge
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