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Date: Monday, April 3, 2017
Time: 7pm
Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Director: Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Film Details: 90 minutes, 2016, UK, color, DCP, English with Open Captions and Audio Description
Co-presented with the ReelAbilities Film Festival Boston
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World Premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and Winner of the Innovation Award at the 2016 Sheffield Doc/Fest
Directors James Spinney and Peter Middleton will attend via Skype for discussion with local film journalist Erin Trahan, a regular contributor to WBUR’s The ARTery.
About the Film:
About the Filmmakers:
Peter Middleton and James Spinney have been working together for the past six years on a range of fiction, documentary and cross-platform projects. During this period they have adapted John’s diary material into a series of award winning short films. The first of these, ‘Rainfall’, won the Best Short Documentary Award at Hot Docs 2013. This was followed in 2014 by the Emmy Award-winning short, also entitled ‘Notes on Blindness’, which screened at Sundance Film Festival and won Best Documentary at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival.
Notes on Blindness is their first feature.
The DocYard is an award-winning film and discussion series at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, and which also sponsors special screenings and co-presentations throughout the year. Each screening is a new experience as we connect audiences directly with filmmakers exploring the documentary form through insightful post-screening discussions.
