Tying Your Own Shoes /

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, Joh...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	National Film Board of Canada
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2009.
Series:	National Film Board Screening Room
Subjects:	Down syndrome. Down syndrome > Patients. Down syndrome patients as artists. Animated films. Documentary films. Down Syndrome Syndrome de Down. Trisomiques. Trisomiques artistes. Artists > Down syndrome > Animated films Documentaries and Factual Films Short films. Documentaires. Courts métrages.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Animation Studio.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 streaming video file (16 min.))
Playing Time:	00:16:14
Audience:	15-17. Régie du cinéma du Québec rating: G. CHV rating: G.
Production Credits:	Writer/director, Shira Avni ; story, Matthew Brotherwood, Daninah Cummins, Katherine Newton, Petra Tolley ; animation, Matthew Brotherwood, Daninah Cummins, Katherine Newton, Petra Tolley ; editor, Carrie Haber ; original music/sound design, Luigi Allemano ; foley, Karla Baumgardner ; re-recording, Shelley Craig ; location audio/location video, Salim Hammad ; producer, Michael Fukushima.