Touché: A Blind Fencer’s Story

WINNER!

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

and Nominated Best Music Score at the

 2014 Madrid International Film Festival!

WINNER! 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

2nd Place

2014 Seattle True Independent Film Fest

WINNER!

The prestigious

2013 CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD

Independent Documentary Feature!

 CINE alumni include Ken Burns, Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, Mark Burnett, Sydney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, and Mike Nichols.

 WINNER!

GOLD REEL AWARD

2013 Nevada Film Festival!

      "...our judges felt that your film demonstrated standout filmmaking and is deserving of special recognition." Alia Preston, Nevada Film Festival

This award-winning documentary is about those who struggle with loss of sight and how the Olympic sport of fencing gives them the confidence to move forward with life.

 From the filmmaker...

who brought you the multi-award winning documentary Panic Nation and the associate producer of Torn from the Flag  comes the award-winning Touché: A Blind Fencer’s Story.

Touché is the French word for “touched” and is used by fencers to acknowledge a hit when struck by an opponent’s blade. To fence is the action or art of thrusting a sword or blade at a challenger.

One of the stories in this new documentary is about a bright young woman who was diagnosed with a very rare disease that took her sight.  After several surgeries and no change, she has come to accept the fact that she is now legally blind.

Devastated, depressed, but determined to keep her independence, she turned to the Carroll Center for the blind. This prestigious center for the visually impaired helped her with the skills she needed to live safely in her home and to navigate the busy city streets.

As part of her vision rehabilitation, she learned the Olympic sport of fencing... a daunting sport for a sighted person yet the abilities needed are extremely important to a person without sight.

Fencing, a sport that requires thick protective jackets, masks, gloves and uses weapons of swords and blades became this young woman's guardian angel.

We share her story and other's as they overcome obstacles, take on challenges of a life with impaired vision… a story of a blind fencer.

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