Shooting Beauty
Wednesday, November 17,
2010 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Popcorn and apple cider
will be served!
The Q & A session
with Courtney Bent and Tony Knight will be ASL interpreted.
The film
is Open Captioned and Audio Described.
The Community Room, 1st
Floor
at The NonProfit Center
89 South Street, Boston,
MA 02111
The award winning documentary film,
SHOOTING BEAUTY: everyone deserves a shot,
already the winner of 8 film festival Audience Awards, tells the story
of aspiring fashion photographer Courtney Bent, whose career takes a
life-changing turn when she finds true beauty at a United Cerebral Palsy
program in Watertown, MA. When she begins adapting cameras for her new
friends, an unforgettable story develops that reviewers are calling
"more than a film ... a masterpiece." [NewEnglandFilm.com]
"This project began with a few cheap plastic cameras, some left-over
tripods, and a lot of duct tape," admits Courtney, who started the
project out of her apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "But as
I got deeper into it, we realized that the participants' view of the
world was unique - and not at all what one might expect."
The photographers in SHOOTING BEAUTY
have varying degrees of disabilities. Some are non-verbal and
many are in wheelchairs. Some take pictures using only their tongue.
But armed with their new cameras, these photographers begin to show
their unique and often surprising perspective on the world around them.
When the group sets their sights on creating a museum-worthy exhibit
of their work, they must overcome a skeptical public, relationship issues,
and even death in the effort to bring their unique perspective to light.
As the photographers strive to break down the barriers that too often
keep them separated from public view a story unfolds in SHOOTING
BEAUTY that will make you rethink what it means to live with a disability --
and without one.
Please RSVP to no later than Monday, November 15th.
