Awareness
6 min / documentary / 2010 / New Zealand
filmmaker: IHC New Zealand
People from all over New Zealand with I/DD share their difficulties and hopes. It might make you think what people’s lives could be like if we focused more on their abilities, rather than their disabilities.
This video is part of a multimedia exhibition – using photographs and video to present the reality of life for people with intellectual disability – the dreams, the loneliness, the talents and the sadness.
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