Onir's Debut Documentary Selected for Maryland Film Festival

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The director Onir’s debut documentary Raising The Bar, is the ocial selection in the documentary lm section of the Maryland International Festival which will take place from March 31st to April 2nd, in the U.S. Onir is thrilled that a story about the children and young adults with down syndrome is touching hearts across the globe.

Onir said that, when I was asked to make this documentary, the reason I agreed was because it touched me somewhere in my heart. My whole purpose to make this documentary was to ensure that this has a wide reach. And in a way, it can help the people to change the way they look at dierently abled people. It is not a lm, which is preachy or boring, it talks about the human stories across the continents. The fact that it has been selected at the lm festival makes me feel that the challenges and problems are beyond the boundaries and how much the people can relate to the film.

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The lmmaker, who has helmed the lms such as I Am in the year 2011, Bas Ek Pal in the year 2006 and My Brother Nikhil in the year 2005, hopes that someday the Indian feature lms or television shows will also have a character in their script with down syndrome as part of their story.

He also said that, “it is not easy in our industry, especially because getting the nances can be tough. I would love to someday write a script for a film on similar lines.”

Mrudula Duddempudi.

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