Mother's Day special evening at the Crystal Theater

Screening of Blindsight starring Erik Weihenmayer
Sunday, May 11, 2008 (with screenings thru May 22)
8:00 PM
Tickets $7.00 per adult, $5 for 12 and under

Crystal Theater
427 Main Street
Carbondale, CO 81623
970 963 0633

Hailed by The New York Times as “one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life,” Blindsight is a feature length documentary starring one of the 5Point Film Festival’s special guests, Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man who fearlessly climbed Mount Everest.

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken — a blind educator and adventurer who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted. (Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes.)