Taking The Wheel is a darkly comic film about the complicated relationship between an obstinate 90-year-old woman who refuses to give up driving, and her well-intentioned son who will stop at nothing to get her off the road.

Written and directed by David Ackerman, Taking The Wheel had its world premiere at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear Award for Best Short Film and screened several times with Richard Eyre's Academy Award-winning feature IRIS. 

It has screened in competition at numerous festivals worldwide including the Santa Barbara International Film Festival; the San Francisco International Film Festival (with the Norwegian feature ELLING, Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film); the Wine Country International Film Festival; The St. Petersburg International Film Festival; The Tehran International Film Festival; and most recently was the Winner of the Audience Favorite Award at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. 

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At the request of the CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL, Taking the Wheel is being regularly screened as an integral component of their ongoing adult driving safety outreach and education program. The CHP believes that the film has already saved many lives and they are determined to see that it continues to do so.