‘Navalny’ Team And National Geographic Launch Documentary Project On Pelletier Family, Who Went On World Tour After Their Kids Faced Oncoming Blindness
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-winning team behind Navalny is embarking on its next project, a National Geographic documentary under the working title Blink of an Eye.
It will focus on the Pelletier family, “a happy, adventurous family of six,” who decided to go on a world tour after learning three of their children would soon lose their vision.
Navalny’s Daniel Roher is directing with Edmund Stenson, who will make his feature debut on the film. MRC and Fishbowl Films are producing, with Fishbowl’s Melanie Miller and Diane Becker on board to produce.
They won Academy Awards for producing Navalny (along with fellow producers Shane Boris and Odessa Rae). The Pelletier’s world “was changed forever when they found out three of the four children were diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, incurable disorder that leads to permanent blindness,” noted a release about the documentary. “Edith Lemay and Sebastian Pelletier decide to take their kids on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to experience all of the beauty the world has to offer while they can still see it.
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