Their Kids Were Going Blind, So Adventurous Parents Took Them On A Journey Around the World: Remarkable ‘Blink’ To Premiere At Telluride
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: About 50 minutes into Blink, the National Geographic documentary that’s about to make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the Pelletier-Lemay family boards a gondola in Ecuador and begins a spectacular descent down a steep mountainside.
But then the gondola jerks to a sudden stop. The film directed by Edmund Stenson and Oscar winner Daniel Roher (Navalny) documents the family’s incredible travels around the world – hiking in the Himalayas, hot-air ballooning in Egypt, surfing in Indonesia, on safari in Namibia.
But on the gondola, the adventure comes to a perilous halt: hour after hour passes. The light fades to total darkness, with no sign of rescue. “Why did it have to be us?” one of the kids asks with growing alarm. “This can’t be real.
It’s a nightmare.” The enclosing darkness stands as a larger metaphor for the family from Québec. They have embarked on this global journey because three of their four children are going blind: Mia, age 11, Colin, 6, Laurent, 4; only Léo, age 9, has been spared the incurable genetic condition retinitis pigmentosa.
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