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Seeing Beyond-Photography by Blind Teenagers

TEAM:

Tony Deifell

Bryan Donnell

LOCATION:

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

CATEGORY:

Art

a film following up on the successful book

“We can show other people that there is more to being blind or visually impaired than you think. We can do more that you think we can do.” – Melody, age 15, blind photographer

Nearly ten years after a photography class the the North Carolina School for the Blind, all of Tony Deifell’s students have graduated. In 2005, filmmaker Bryan Donnell joined Tony to document a road trip from Asheville to eastern NC to track down his former students.

Some students had given up photography, many had continued with it, but all of them tell both humorous and sobering stories of what it is like being blind, living in rural America, and seeing beyond sight.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Bryan Donnell – BIO – www.bryandonnell.com

Following up on the successful book: SEEING BEYOND SIGHT published by Chronicle Books with a foreword by Robert Coles.

“uniquely powerful ~ Utne Magazine

“savvy, passionate, witty, and yes, beautiful” ~ FastCompany.com

“This book will make you lookand look againat how you perceive and what you assume.” ~ Shambhala Sun

NYTimes , LA Times COLORS magazine & more http://www.seeingbeyondsight.org/book/press.html

Team

Tony Deifell

Tony has spent over a decade creating youth-generated media projects, including From the Hip, Youth Voice Radio, and ISM, which was recognized by the White House as a national model of diversity education, using video diaries to address race issues. Tony was an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, taught documentary studies at Duke University, was a national leadership fellow with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Bryan Donnell

Bryan was Director of Photography for "The Elders," started by Nelson Mandela. Other work: A&E's top-rated "Intervention," A&E's "Driving Force" & "Made in L.A.," funded by Sundance and ITVS. Films Bryan has shot have won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, a student Oscar and 2 student Emmies. TV clients have included History Channel, Discovery, Travel, Fine Living and the Learning Channel, ABC Family, A&E, Bravo, Fox, Sky, PBS, ESPN2 among others. He earned his MFA in film production at USC.

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Perks for your contribution:

lots of good karma & gratitude: $15

plus updates on project AND listing on film website with other contributors - http://www.seeingbeyondsight.org/film

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special screenings & parties: $50

if we get into a festival like Sundance, we'll invite you. PLUS: listing on film website with other contributors - http://www.seeingbeyondsight.org/film

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author-signed copy of book: $110

award-winning book, Seeing Beyond Sight (hardcover), published by Chronicle Books (email your address: tony at seeingbeyondsight.org) Courtesy of Tim Freundlich

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credit in final film: $500

plus lifetime good karma AND a copy of Seeing Beyond Sight (hardcover), published by Chronicle Books (email your address: tony at seeingbeyondsight.org)

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