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From The Fanlight Collection
Flying People
A Film by Tom Collinson
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"I think what your eyesight does is confirm other senses," says James Robertshaw, a world champion kite flyer and for two years personal assistant to Rory Heap. Heap has been blind from birth, but with Robertshaw's assistance pursues his ambition for kite flying- particularly of complicated figure eight patterns. Using all of his senses except for sight, Heap learns how to fly a kite with the same dexterity that Robertshaw uses to guide him through busy city streets.

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Exhilaratingly flying kite patterns like he's playing a musical score, weaving gracefully through the sky, Heap considers flying, "The Eight Wonder of the World." FLYING PEOPLE questions our notions of disability, but ultimately is a simple human story about two people whose lives have come together due to their passion for flight. "[Kite flying] is not about triumphing over adversity, but realizing you've still got things to do," says Heap.

"A film about the passion for flight and the will to overcome any handicap or obstacle that might deny it, Collinson's film has the same kind of single-minded devotion as Werner Herzog's classic Little Dieter Needs to Fly… [its] power derives from its understatement, [the] ability to allow the viewer to reach their own conclusions, and the distance from the subject that is the hallmark of most good documentary filmmaking."—Shane Danielson, Edinburgh International Film Festival

"A simple, kind story about the better side of living life."—Warren Hawkes, Library, New York State Nurses Association, Educational Media Reviews Online

2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival
2004 Raindance Film Festival, England
2004 Microdocumentales, Chile
2005 Krasnogorski International Film Festival, Russia
2005 Festival Assim Vivemos, Brazil
2006 The Other Film Festival, Australia
2011 Western Psychological Association Conference

24 minutes / Color
Release: 2010
Copyright: 2004

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This DVD is sold with a license for institutional use and Public Performance rights.

Subject areas:
Disabilities, Education, Fanlight Collection, Health Issues

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