PORTRAITS OF POSSIBILITY

This inspiring documentary examines the participation of the blind and visually impaired in competitive athletic events, including track and field, swimming, judo, basketball, and goal ball. The athletes discuss training methods and techniques unique to blind sporting events and their coaches discuss how they learned that that blind are far more capable than they expected. The athletes also explain how their participation in sports has helped them develop self-confidence and overcome feelings of humiliation, denial and isolation. Their accomplishments also serve to shatter the general public's misconceptions and stereotypes about the disabled.

Directed by John Tyson
Produced by David Block
1996, 20 minutes
Purchase: $175 Classroom Rental: $50

"This videotape accomplishes many objectives...This documentary would be a good audiovisual supplement to the instruction of undergraduate adapted physical activity or therapeutic recreation course work. ."-Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly

Subjects & Collections

Disabilities  Psychology & Psychiatry  Short Films  Sociology