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Oscar Winner Daniel Roher Talks Nat Geo Doc ‘Blink,’ About a Family Who Travels the World After Life-Altering News
Oscar Winning director Daniel Roher talks Nat Geo Doc 'Blink'
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 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. Roher: It might be hard to spot a throughline between the last film Ed and I worked together on, which was “Navalny,” and “Blink,” but one of the connective tissues of both of those movies is that you take subjects that should be very challenging, serious and intense, and you treat them with the levity and humor that often exists in real life.
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