EXCLUSIVE: The documentary Full Circle, on athletes seeking reinvention following traumatic accidents to the backbone, has firmed up North American launch plans with Abramorama. Directed by Josh Berman of the manufacturing firm Level 1, the movie will hit NYC’s Village East by Angelika on October 20, increasing to L.A.’s Laemmle theaters and throughout the U.S. and Canada starting on the twenty seventh.
Berman’s means into analyzing spinal twine accidents within the athletic world is the story of Trevor Kennison, a leisure snowboarder who broke his again in 2014 and went on to search out reinvention as knowledgeable sit-skier. Juxtaposed with it’s the story of Barry Corbet, an intrepid skier, mountaineer, explorer, and filmmaker, who broke his again in a helicopter crash in 1968. Frustrated by a pre-ADA tradition that didn’t settle for or help the disabled, Corbet likewise reinvented himself, turning into a seminal chief within the incapacity group.
Remarkably, the duo are linked not simply by traumatic accidents within the Colorado backcountry, but additionally by experiences of fame in Jackson Hole, rehab at Craig Hospital, and the shared resiliency which meant that neither let their ardour for all times be restricted by their bodily challenges. The doc follows Trevor on a path in direction of post-traumatic development in parallel with Barry, 50 years later.
World premiering on the Santa Barbara Film Festival in February, Full Circle is produced by Conor Smith, Berman, and Roy Tuscany. Berman additionally served as an govt producer alongside Kevin and Rosemary McNeely and Andrew Tiner.
Abramorama companions Karol Martesko-Fenster and Richard Abramowitz known as the movie “an exhilarating portrayal of the impact of Spinal Cord Injury on two men separated by multiple decades,” whose tales are “woven together with finesse.” Continued the duo, “Director Josh Berman created a powerful film that honors Barry Corbet’s legacy and provides a profoundly affecting cinema experience as we follow Trevor Kennison’s journey. We are thrilled to be collaborating with the Level 1 team, and the film’s many supporters, on the big screen theatrical launch of Full Circle.”
Berman shared in an announcement to Deadline that when he was first approached by documentary topic Kennison 4+ years in the past a few potential quick movie mission, he “knew right away that the story deserved to be bigger than that… but none of us realized the full depth of what we would uncover. It’s been quite a journey, and the end result is a film that I truly believe will impact the lives of viewers, young and old, able-bodied and disabled alike, and we’re grateful to be working with Abramorama’s team on our theatrical release.”
COO Martesko-Fenster negotiated the deal for Abramorama, with Pip Ngo of XYZ Films on behalf of Level 1 and the movie group.
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