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I'll Find a Way
197725 min 47 secFilm: Documentary, Children's film
Direction: Beverly Shaffer
Production: Yuki YoshidaKathleen Shannon
When nine-year-old Nadia is allowed to attend a regular school, she knows the kids will tease her but she'll "find a way to deal with it." Nadia has spina bifida, a congenital condition that has caused a lack of sensation from the knees down. She uses crutches in order to walk. Nadia, in her own candid way, makes it clear that she is not looking for sympathy. She can do many things that children do, only she has a different way of doing them. Oscar® winner!
(Over two decades later we meet Nadia again in Just a Wedding).
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > Children with DisabilitiesLifestylesPeople with Physical DisabilitiesPortraits
- Children and Youth > Young persons with disabilities
- Health/Personal Development > Human Growth and Development
Credits
- director
- Beverly Shaffer
- producer
- Yuki Yoshida
- executive producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- camera
- Hideaki Kobayashi
- sound
- Ingrid Cusiel
- editing
- Ginny Stikeman
- sound editing
- John Knight
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- music
- Larry Crosley
Awards
- Amer Silver Eye Award - Category: Personal CourageAnnual AMER Film Awards (The Association of Media Educators in Religion)
- Award of Excellence given by the Film Advisory Board IncorporatedFilm Advisory Board Incorporated
- Bronze Venus Medallion - Category 21: Educational for ChildrenInternational Film Festival
- Oscar - Category: Short Film Awards - Live actionAnnual Academy Awards / OSCARS
- Best Overall Children's FilmChildfilm Festival of the Canadian Association for Young Children
- Best Film About ChildrenChildfilm Festival of the Canadian Association for Young Children
- Award for Best Documentary FilmInternational Film Festival
- Film recommended for its special interest for teenagers by the International JuryInternational Cinema Contest for Children and Teenagers
- RAI AwardInternational Festival of Cinema for Youth and Children
- Silver Medal - Category: Short and Medium Length Films on HealthInternational Festival of Red Cross and Health Films