We Can Be Heroes (2024)

Documentary exploring how live action role-playing (LARP) has created a safe space and community for those in need of it.

Sometimes, finding your tribe requires a bit of magic. For attendees of a LARP camp in upstate New York, the deeply accepting environment has given neurodivergent, queer, and self-proclaimed "nerdy" teenagers the space and community for self-discovery that they have never found anywhere else. As the campers immerse themselves in this imaginative world, they discover inner strength, heal from past traumas, and emerge as the heroes they are meant to be, both in the fantasy realm and in real life.

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