Tying Your Own Shoes (documentary)

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Make sure you watch the trailer!"Tying Your Own Shoes explores how it feels to be a little bit unusual. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Shira Avni,

this animated documentary provides an intimate glimpse into the exceptional mindsets and emotional lives of four adult artists with Down

syndrome. Petra, , and Daninah’s

artworks are combined with footage from interviews to blur philosophical lines between personal power and “disability”. Their first-person narratives challenge widely-believed stereotypes about Down

syndrome. Their stories are direct, hard-hitting and wondrous, conveying each artist’s individual attitudes to create a touching, four-way essay about ability."http://films.nfb.ca/tying-your-own-shoes/index.phpThere is a link to a short film called " and " on the bottom right of the page as well. "This animated short pays tribute to two men with Down's syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Narrator , also intellectually challenged, brings the men alive with great sensitivity."