The film, “More Than Meets the Eye,” will be screened on the UNC campus at 7:30 p.m. May 4 in the Hanes Art Center auditorium. There will be a Q&A discussion following the film.
Communication studies professor Hap Kindem’s documentary film, “More than Meets the Eye,” which focuses on the life of a blind Paralympics skier, will be screened at the 2011 Boston International Film Festival on April 18.
It was one of 100 films selected for screening from among 2,600 entries to the festival.
Anne-Mette Bredahl, the subject of Kindem’s film, is a woman who has excelled in both life and sport.
Bredahl tackled blindness in her 20s and survived a rare, potentially fatal illness in her 40s. She became the first blind person trained in Denmark to be a clinical psychologist. Never having skied before she lost her sight, she became a Paralympic gold medalist for Denmark. She even won a competition while six months pregnant. After just 10 weeks of training following a major illness and the birth of her son, Bredahl qualified for the 2010 Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The film was supported by a fellowship from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. It previously won the award for “Best Film That Breaks Stereotypes” at the Breaking Down Barriers Film Festival in Sochi and Moscow, Russia. It was shown March 31 at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Oslo, Norway, by the Norwegian American Association (NORAM). Kindem received a Norwegian Marshall Fund grant from NORAM to support the production of the film and to be a visiting professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
