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Tying Your Own Shoes

Directed by Shira Avni
Canada, 2009 (animation / documentary, 16 minutes, colour, English)
Also known as "En laçant mes souliers"
Tying Your Own Shoes
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada)
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]

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)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Shira Avni
Produced by: Michael Fukushima, David Verrall
Animation: Matthew Brotherwood, Daninah Cummins, Katherine Newton, Petra Tolley
Film Editing: Carrie Haber
Music: Luigi Allemano
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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