Tying Your Own Shoes
- Shira Avni,
- 2009,
- 16 min 15 s
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.
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Film Credits
- writer
- Shira Avni
- 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
- Luigi Allemano
- sound design
- Luigi Allemano
- foley
- Karla Baumgardner
- re-recording
- Shelley Craig
- location audio
- Salim Hammad
- location video
- Salim Hammad
- producer
- Michael Fukushima
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