About this Short Film
Lessons From a Hospital Bed from Botany Downs Secondary College (New Zealand, 2018) is a short film in the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival. Quiet and direct, it explores themes of physical disability, physiotherapy and school life, focusing on teenagers. The film pays attention to moments of challenge and small victories, and highlights the role of care, adaptation and mobility aids such as wheelchairs. It offers a thoughtful, human portrait that complements the festival's aim to showcase ability, resilience and the everyday experiences of young people with disability.
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Botany Downs Secondary College is the filmmaker behind this entry. See every Focus on Ability entry from Botany Downs Secondary College.
Real inspiration Thanks for the insight into your world. Such courage.
Kate youve come such a long way since you were sucked into the black hole that is CRPS. Your incredible courage and the insight you've shown in your film have helped you fight your way back. Your film shows just some of the challenges that people with visible and invisible disability have to cope with. Im so impressed that youve been able to share some of what youve learnt through your experience even as you continue to face challenges others cant see. Im sure your perspectives will help people to understand some of the difficulties associated with visible and invisible disability and inspire those who are living with it.
You have done a splendid job Kate. You showed the struggles that anyone would face whether visible or invisible injury. Everyone would feel like giving up thinking they had no purpose despite the love and everything else. So you truly show in this short film how Alex made her journey from being handicapped and handicapped from dealing with life to fighting back and getting out there. Splendid job Kate
Invisible injury is to me the more difficult dis-ability to deal with - for everyone. The difficulty that Alex and her sister had connecting despite their love illuminates the wider difficulty to deal with - for everyone. Courageous Kate tells it like it is.