Climbing Blind
United Kingdom, 2020, 57 minutes, Colour, English; Turkish captioned
Director: Alastair Lee
Jesse Dufton was born with 20% central vision. At four years of age Jesse was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa: a rare genetic disease that breaks down the retinas' cells. At aged 20 Jesse could no longer read, by the time he was 30 his vision was reduced to just light perception with around 1 or 2 % field of view. Despite his condition he took on bigger challenges by attempting to be the first blind person to make a 'non-sight' lead of the iconic Old Man of Hoy sea stack in Scotland.
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Online (Screening ends on 15 October Friday, 20:00)