Blindsight

WELWYN GARDEN CITY

@ Campus West Tel: +44 170 735 7117

Opening: 4th November, 2008

DERBY

@
The Quad Tel: +44 1332 290 606

Opening: 9th November, 2008

UNIVERSITY OF STERLING

@ Macrobert

Opening: 14th-16th November, 2008

17th November, 2008 Kirkgate Centre Cumbria Tel: +44 190 082 6448

23rd November, 2008 Electric Palace Harwich

8th / 9th December, 2008 South Hill Park Bracknell Tel: +44 134 448 4123

20th - 23rd November, 2008 Kendall Mountain Film Festival

30th November, 2008 DCA Dundee

24th – 29th December, 2008 Eden Court Theatre Inverness Tel: +44 146 323 4234

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on their journey to climb a mountain in the shadow of Mt Everest. A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed to be possessed by evil demons, the children are feared by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by their Buddhist religion. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken, a blind educator and adventuress who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The result is nothing anyone could have predicted.