Filmmaker Sarah Tracton gives a totally fresh take on what it means to hear, to listen, when she uses her own hearing loss as a catalyst to visually explore the texture of sound. White Sound is recreated in the ‘mind’s ear.’
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White Balance
Twelve-year-old Itamar has a deep passion for ice skating. However, he is slowly losing his hearing, and therefore his balance, forcing him away from his dream. Itamar refuses to accept his doctor’s orders and his parents’ wish that he stay away from the ice rink. Natalie, his new partner, who is a wild and disobedient girl, decides to help him. Together they struggle and grow within a complicated world of adolescence.
Warrior Champions
Four Iraq War veterans turn the nightmares of war into Olympic dreams. After losing limbs and suffering paralysis fighting for their country in Iraq, they have set out to do what many thought impossible? but will they make the cut?
War Eagle, Arkansas
Coming of age in an Ozark town. Enoch is a high school senior: he stutters, has one friend, Wheels, a kid with CP who’s in a wheelchair, and thinks about college in Tennessee on a baseball scholarship. He’s philosophical, loves poetry, and lives with his mom and grandfather. Life gets complicated when he finds himself attracted to Abby, one of the popular girls. When he starts hanging out with her, even though he wants Wheels along, in part to help him finish his sentences, it causes friction between the two friends and gives Enoch pause about whether he should “leave town to make something of himself.” Can he figure out what he wants without hurting anyone’s feelings?
Wandering Eyes
Gabriel Belhassan is the next big thing in the rock music world, former Orthodox Jew and recently diagnosed manic depressive. Upon being released from a psychiatric facility, he begins work on a solo album, but urban solitude, disturbed sleep, and a myriad of daily pressures refuse to let him be.
Wampler’s Ascent
Steve Wampler, who has cerebral palsy, must do 20,000 pull-ups to climb the famous El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite. In 2002, Steve founded a camp for kids with disabilities, and his climb will be a testament that they can do anything they set their minds to.
