Stimulus Pictures has released the trailer and poster to Vision Portraits, written & directed by Rodney Evans. The film will open theatrically on Aug. 9th in NY at Metrograph and Aug. 23rd in Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal with national rollout to follow.
VISION PORTRAITS is a deeply personal documentary by award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother) as he explores how his loss of vision may impact his creative future, and what it means to be a blind or visually impaired creative artist. It’s a celebration of the possibilities of art created by photographer John Dugdale, dancer Kayla Hamilton, writer Ryan Knighton and the filmmaker himself, who each experience varying degrees of visual impairment. Using archival material alongside new illuminating interviews and observational footage of the artists at work, Evans has created a tantalizing meditation on blindness and creativity, a sensual work that opens our minds to new possibilities.
Rodney Evans is a fiction and documentary film writer, director and producer based in New York. His debut feature film Brother To Brother won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize in Drama. The film had its European premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival and garnered four Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best First Film, Best First Screenplay, Best Debut Performance for Anthony Mackie and Best Supporting Male Performance for Roger Robinson. His second narrative feature, The Happy Sad, played at over thirty film festivals throughout the world and had its U.S. theatrical premiere at the IFC Center in NYC and the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles. Evans has taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton and currently teaches at Swarthmore. His documentary short Persistence of Vision screened at BAMcinemaFest and Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and won the Jury Prize at the Ann Arbor International Film Festival in 2017. His latest feature documentary, Vision Portraits, celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival in the Documentary Feature Competition and debuted internationally at BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Rodney will be honored with the 2019 Frameline Award during Frameline’s San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
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