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Flying People

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Director(s)	Tom Collinson
Release Date	2004
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	24 min
Format(s)	DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

From Fanlight Productions…
During these breezy, stormy days of October Fanlight Productions is happy to bring you this new film about kite flying. Described by Shane Danielson from the Edinburgh International Film Festival as, “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.”
Flying People
A Film by Tom Collinson
“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.
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.
24 minutes / © 2004 / DVD / Close Captioned / Digital Rights Available
“Cherishable” The List, 2004

Edinburgh International Film Festival, Official Selection, 2004
Picture This Film Festival, Winner, Honorable Mention, 2005
Raindance Film Festival, Official Selection, London, 2004
Selected by the British Council for entry into International Film Festivals 2005
...and many more.
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Last Updated On:	October 12, 2010