[IL-Talk] New film about blind artists playing in Chicago

[Dor Dotson]

Award-winning documentary Vision Portraits *opens this Friday 9/20 in
Chicago* at Facets Cinematheque. There will be screenings every day that
feature an *open audio description track*, and director Rodney Evans (who
is vision impaired) will be there in person on Friday and Saturday after
the 7 PM screenings. (Those screenings will feature an open audio
description track.)

*Get tickets and more info about open audio description screenings
<https://www.facets.org/cinematheque/films/sept2019/vision-portraits.php>*

*Watch the audio described trailer* <https://youtu.be/Zx86x-xPqv4>


[image: vision portraits.jpg]

*Synopsis:*

VISION PORTRAITS is a deeply personal documentary by award-winning
filmmaker Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother) as he explores how his loss of
vision may impact his creative future, and what it means to be a blind or
visually impaired creative artist.  It’s a celebration of the possibilities
of art created by a Manhattan photographer (John Dugdale), a Bronx-based
dancer (East Texas native Kayla Hamilton), a Canadian writer (Ryan
Knighton) and the filmmaker himself, who each experience varying degrees of
visual impairment. Using archival material alongside new illuminating
interviews and observational footage of the artists at work, Evans has
created a tantalizing meditation on blindness and creativity, a sensual
work that opens our minds to new possibilities.

*SELECT PRESS:*


*NPR's Fresh Air - Interview with Rodney Evans*
<https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/747605189/vision-portraits-filmmaker-wanted-to-chronicle-other-artists-who-are-blind>
*Buzzfeed’s AM2DM - Interview with Rodney Evans*
<https://twitter.com/AM2DM/status/1159861394528985092>
*BUILD SERIES - Interview with Rodney Evans*
<https://www.buildseries.com/video/5d4c5254b8bad329d29380f0/>
*Morning Edition - Interview with Rodney Evans*
<https://www.wnyc.org/story/rodney-evans-new-doc-celebrates-artistic-vision-visually-impaired>



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*CONNECT WITH THE FILM:*

Twitter: @VisPortraitsDoc <https://twitter.com/visportraitsdoc>
Instagram: @VisionPortraitsMovie
<https://instagram.com/visionportraitsmovie/>
Facebook: @VisionPortraitsMovie
<https://www.facebook.com/VisionPortraitsMovie>


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*ABOUT RODNEY EVANS*

Rodney Evans is an award-winning fiction and documentary film writer,
director and producer based in New York.  His debut feature film *Brother
To Brother* won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize in Drama. The
film had its European premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival
and garnered four Independent Spirit Award nominations. His second
narrative feature, *The Happy Sad*, played at over thirty film festivals
throughout the world and had its U.S. theatrical premiere at the IFC Center
in NYC and the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles. Evans has taught at
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton and currently teaches at
Swarthmore College. His documentary short *Persistence of Vision* screened
at BAMcinemaFest and Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBT Film
Festival and won the Jury Prize at the Ann Arbor International Film
Festival in 2017. His latest feature documentary, *Vision Portraits*,
celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival in the
Documentary Feature Competition and debuted internationally at BFI Flare:
London LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Rodney was recently honored with the 2019
Frameline Award.
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