NFB Collection
Poison Ivy
197912 min 53 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Richard James Martin
Production: Jack LongJohn Taylor
Sixty-six-year-old Ivy Granstrom jogs, skis, bowls, gardens and does carpentry work. Sometimes she walks into a wall. Due to insufficient care at birth, she enjoys only 4.5% vision, but she doesn't let blindness interfere with her life. She practises the art of "mind over eyes."
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > Blind and Visually Impaired PeoplePortraitsWomen with Disabilities
- Seniors > Health and IllnessPortraits
- Women - Portraits > Health and Illness
Credits
- director
- Richard James Martin
- editing
- Richard James Martin
- producer
- Jack Long
- executive producer
- John Taylor
- photography
- Jan-Marie Martell
- sound
- Larry Sutton
- sound editing
- John Knight
- re-recording
- Barry P. Jones