[blindkid] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Help Stella Win the Greek America Foundation Short Film Contest!

[Carol Castellano]

Here's a very nice video on a blind man who visits Greece.
Carol

Carol Castellano
President, Parents of Blind Children-NJ
Director of Programs
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
973-377-0976
carol_castellano at verizon.net
www.blindchildren.org
www.nfb.org/parents-and-teachers

>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:17:00 -0500
>To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
>From: "Robert Gardner" <rgardner4 at gmail.com> (by way of David Andrews
>         <dandrews at visi.com>)
>Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Help Stella Win the Greek America Foundation
>  Short Film Contest!
>
>
>On my first visit to Greece some years ago, I 
>stood on top of the Acropolis in Athens with my 
>wife, Nancy.  I was disappointed to find 
>ourselves at a fence in front of the 
>Parthenon.  That marked the point as to how 
>close tourists could get to the Parthenon.  You 
>couldn't go into it, you could only look at 
>it.  Which meant for me, someone blind, that I 
>couldn't really experience the Parthenon at all.
>
>
>Several years later, Nancy and I again visited 
>Greece.  This time, however, I had written to 
>various authorities asking permission to be 
>allowed to go beyond the fence and at least 
>touch the Parthenon.  And believe it or not, 
>permission was given, and it actually 
>happened!  In fact, I was not only allowed to 
>just touch the marble of that famous temple, but was given a tour inside it.
>
>
>
>I wrote an article describing that adventure, 
>and it was published in the Braille Monitor, 
>the magazine of The National Federation of the 
>Blind.  My story, Another  Wonder, can be read at
>
><https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm05/bm0501/bm050103.htm>https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm05/bm0501/bm050103.htm 
>
>
>
>
>I was contacted late last year by Stella 
>Kyriakopoulos, a Greek-American graduate film 
>major at New York University.  She wanted to 
>create a short film for her University work, and 
>also to enter in the Greek America Foundation 
>Film and Photo Week short film contest.  Stella, 
>who is not handicapped, decided to have as her 
>theme for her short film ,of all things, a 
>visually impaired tourist visiting Greece.
>
>
>
>By some very diligent searching on the web, or 
>maybe by some miracle, she ran across my article 
>published back in 2005.  After many E-mails, 
>many phone calls, a visit by Stella to Athens, 
>and a visit by her to my home, she produced her 
>ten-minute video for the contest.
>
>
>
>Her short film entitle "Bob Goes to the 
>Parthenon," is essentially a documentary of my 
>story, "Another Wonder."  The video includes 
>interviews Stella made with the Greek citizens I 
>met and talked about in that story, those 
>interviews done in Athens and even on top of the 
>Acropolis.  In Stella's visit to my home, she 
>videoed me giving my thoughts and views on 
>blindness, on the need for those blind to aspire 
>to independence, and also shows me doing 
>everyday tasks around my home that some might 
>think a blind person couldn't do.
>
>
>
>I invite you to watch the video at the website, 
><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cAWTc5sSCE&list=PLVBcTpng8Az22T2VrOaPsp5AWQBrraEgj&index=1>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cAWTc5sSCE&list=PLVBcTpng8Az22T2VrOaPsp5AWQBrraEgj&index=1 
>
>
>
>
>An alternative way to watch the video and vote 
>"like" for it is to go to the website 
><http://www.youtube.com>www.youtube.com , then 
>put in Bob goes to the Parthenon into the 
>search box.  Once that opens, click on the link 
>to 2013 GFFW short film contest.
>
>
>
>Stella put her heart and soul into her video, 
>making trips from New York to Athens, and New 
>York to Illinois.  Let's help her win the short 
>film contest by voting "like" on the YouTube 
>website.  And don't hesitate to forward this 
>message to your friends and family.
>
>
>
>Note:  for those using a screen reader, you may 
>have some difficulty on the YouTube website 
>finding where to click on "like."  I know I 
>did, using JAWS.  Unfortunately, I have no tips 
>on how to facilitate that other than perhaps getting some sighted help.
>
>
>
>Bob Gardner
>
>Blackhawk Chapter
>
>NFB of Illinois
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