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BLINDSIGHT
Winner - Audience Award for Best
Documentary Feature - AFI Fest 2006
Winner - Audience Award for Best
Documentary Feature - Filmfestival Ghent, Belgium
Winner - Audience Award for Best
Documentary Feature - Berlinale, Berlin
Winner - Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature - Palm Springs
Shortlisted for Academy Awards 2006 for
Best Documentary Feature
Nominee for Best Documentary - British Independent Film Awards 2006
"A brilliant film, ravishingly
photographed. "- Time
Out London
" A beautiful, crowd-pleasing doc. " - Jason Solomons, The
Observer (UK)
" Inspiring and fascinating." - J Kelly Nestruck , National Post
" Funny touching and gorgeous. " - Damien Rogers, Now
For additional information about the film, the filmmakers and climbers,
please check out www.blindsightthemovie.com
Blindsight is produced by Sybil Robson
Orr, directed by Lucy Walker and edited by the very talented Sebastian
Duthy.
Sabriye Tenberken, 2006 Mother Theresa Award Winner and 2005 Nobel
Peace Prize nominee, became fascinated with the study of Tibetan
culture as a young blind German woman and created the first Braille
text for the Tibetan language. She travelled alone to Tibet and
into the frozen Himalayas to find blind children, considered demonic by
their culture, to attend a school she established specially for them.
She and 6 of her blind students joined world class blind
mountain climber, Erik Weihenmayer, in an attempt to summit Lhakpa Ri,
the 23,000 foot peak which rises spectacularly beside Mount Everest.
The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have
predicted.
BLINDSIGHT REVIEWS
"Loved the film, it had everything you could want in a story that is
lacking in virtually every film today! One of my top handful of
the year."
- Mike Reynolds, AP Radio
" Yes, Walker's documentary hails from the inspirational school of
filmmaking, and graduates with honors."
- Rick Groen, Globe & Mail
"Be assured that Blindsight is this year's Murderball: an
unconventional, outstanding athletic documentary that inspires new
faith in human potential."
- CBC
"A gripping documentary premiered this week to a standing ovation..."
- Ka Yan Ng, Reuters
" Intelligently questions our values of heroism, community and success."
- Eye Weekly
"Deceptively complex...a
compelling study in culture clash, with
spectacular scenery to boot."
- Lisa Felperin, Variety
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