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JULY 16
Documentary Night Presents
BLINDSIGHT
WED, JULY 16 - 7:30 PM
Carte Blanche - FREE / Members - $6 / Students/Seniors - $7 / Nonmembers - $10 |
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ABOUT THE FILM: A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken - a blind educator and adventurer who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa , the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted. The expedition came about after blind educator Sabriye Tenberken, who founded Braille Without Borders, the first and only school for the blind in Tibet , wrote an email letter to the world renowned blind mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer, upon hearing the news that he had summitted Mt. Everest in 2001. Sabriye had read Erik’s book Touch The Top Of The World to the students in the school, and was inspired to get in touch following the incredible news of his summit. |
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