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Blindsight - Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso, Lucy Walker

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What if suddenly everyone you knew were a stranger?

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The 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 and only school for the blind in Tibet, 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.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film documentary extreme sport adventure mountain climbing blind disabled Tibet UK snow sherpa Mount Everest

Persons of interest

Gavin Attwood .... Himself
Sally Berg .... Herself
Sonam Bhumtso .... Herself
Michael Brown .... Himself
Dachung .... Himself
Jeff Evans .... Himself
Gyenshen .... Himself
Stefani Jackenthal .... Herself
Paul Kronenberg .... Himself
Kyila .... Herself
Charley Mace .... Himself
Steven Mace .... Himself
Chris Morris .... Himself
Tashi Pasang .... Himself
Kami Tenzing Sherpa .... Himself
Cornelia Tenberken .... Herself
Sabriye Tenberken .... Herself
Tenzin .... Himself
Nguyen-Toan Tran .... Himself
Ed Weihenmayer .... Himself
Erik Weihenmayer .... Himself
Lucy Walker .... Director

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Blindsight official movie site
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Awards and film festivals:

American Film Institute (AFI) 2006: Won: Audience Award Best Documentary (Lucy Walker)
Berlin International Film Festival 2007: Won: Panorama Audience Award (Lucy Walker)
British Independent Film Awards 2006: Nominated: Best British Documentary
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2007: Won: Audience Award Best Documentary (Lucy Walker)

See also Touching the void
Studios and distributors:

Sony Pictures Releasing

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Theatrical report

You don't have to be crazy to take blind teenagers on a trek up a mountain but it helps.

This documentary follows a bunch of underprepared blind and sighted adults as they take underprepared blind teenagers up the Himalayas. The predictable tears before bedtime come thick and fast (that makes it more interesting to watch) but this film/event would never have happened in the USA for fear of a lawsuit.

The documentary, extreme sport movie Blindsight is directed by Lucy Walker and stars Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso.