Addie Morfoot Contributor In 2020, Daniel Roher read an article about a French Canadian couple Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletie who decided to drop everything and travel the world after learning that three of their four children were losing their vision due to a rare, incurable eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa.
The family of six embarked on a one-year global journey to help fill their children’s memories with breathtaking destinations and once-in-a-lifetime encounters. “It read as this inspirational news story,” says Roher, who won the Academy Award for “Navalny” in 2023. “I was like, ‘That is a real lovely story.
Isn’t it nice to have a life-affirming news story in a sea of depressing and sad news stories?’ So, I clocked it, and then a couple of months later, our friends at MRC reached out and said we should do a documentary about it.” The result of that conversation is National Geographic‘s “Blink, ” an 84-minute documentary that follows the couple and their children, Mia, Léo, Colin and Laurent, on a 12-month trip to 24 countries.
The film, which had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in September, will open in 150 theaters throughout the U.S.
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