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Tying Your Own Shoes -- Film Description:
"Tying Your Own Shoes is an intimate glimpse into the exceptional mindsets and emotional lives of four adult artists with Down Syndrome. An artful, four-way essay about ability, this animated documentary explores how it feels to be a little bit unusual. In her follow-up to her award-winning film, John and Michael, filmmaker Shira Avni pursues a deeper understanding of esteem and disability by inviting Petra, Matthew, Daninah and Katherine to consider their pasts, relationships and ambitions. Tying Your Own Shoes is a hybrid of auteur documentary and animation cinema, two forms with which The National Film Board of Canada has developed a world-renowned expertise over the past 70 years."
-- National Film Board of Canada


Source:
National Film Board of Canada. "NFB -- Tying Your Own Shoes." National Film Board of Canada. http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=54892.