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Discussion Guide POV Community Engagement & Education Discussion GuiDe My Way To Olympia A Film by Niko von Glasow www.pbs.org/pov LETTER FROM THE FILMMAKER As a disabled filmmaker, i was sure i was the perfect can - didate to make a film about the 2012 London Paralympic Games. Mainly because i hate sports. i find watching any sporting event deathly boring, and the only competitive activity i ever take part in is an occasional game of chess. As a child i felt tortured by school gymnastics classes, and even now the smell of a gym turns my stomach and brings back painful memories of sadistic sports mis - tresses with scary boots and bristling moustaches. Alongside my sports-phobia, i have a well-developed skepticism about disabled people — more specifically, about their neuroses, because they too accurately reflect my own. in the film, i follow my four widely different sub - jects as they prepare, qualify, train and strive to win at the 2012 Paralympic Games. i feel (rightly or wrongly) that being physically disabled myself makes it easier for me to burst the Pc bubble and ask disabled people a load of direct, searching and sometimes uncomfortable ques - tions. Questions like: Why do you put yourself through this? Aren't you just competing to prove yourself better than "normal people"? isn't the Paralympics ultimately a freak-show? so many people, myself included, live in denial of their weaknesses. These athletes are confronting their disabil - ities head-on, striving to conquer them. A man with no arms doesn't have to take up archery, and his life would be much easier if he hadn't. But the more time i spent with these athletes, the more i understood that they aren't just trying to be "as good as" non-disabled athletes. Playing table tennis with one hand, and playing volleyball while sitting on the floor, are totally different, separate Filmmaker Niko von Glasow. and more challenging disciplines than the "normal" ver - Photo courtesy of Niko von Glasow sions of these sports. i found the Paralympics altogether more interesting, fun, human and inclusive than the olympic Games. And as my relation - ships with my subjects became more intimate and, at times, more intrusive, i realized that Paralympians are much purer ex - amples of the original olympic spirit than many able-bodied olympians. You can't become a Paralympic athlete without totally embracing the ideals of togetherness and shared participation. even i, who will certainly never win Paralympic gold, found myself caught up in that spirit and unable to resist taking part. Niko von Glasow Director/Writer, My Way To Olympia DISCUSSION GUIDE My Way To Olympia |2 TABLE OF CONTENTS CREDITS 2 Letter from the Filmmaker Writer 4 Introduction Faith Rogow, PhD 5 Potential Partners Insighters Educational Consulting 5 Key Issues 5 Using This Guide Guide Producers and Background Research, POV 6 Background Information Eliza Licht 6 Niko von Glasow Vice President, Community Engagement and Education, POV 6 The Paralympic Games Aubrey Gallegos Manager, Community Engagement and Education, POV 8 The Athletes Alice Quinlan 13 Did You Know? Assistant, Community Engagement and Education, POV 14 Selected People Featured in My Way To Olympia Design: 15 General Discussion Questions Rafael Jiménez 16 Discussion Prompts Eyeball 21 Taking Action Copy Editor: 22 Resources Natalie Danford 23 How to Buy the Film Thanks to those who reviewed this guide: Niko Von Glasow Filmmaker, My Way to Olympia Judith Vecchione Executive Producer, Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey DISCUSSION GUIDE My Way To Olympia |3 INTRODUCTION Norwegian Table Tennis Player Aida Dahlen. in My Way To Olympia (60 minutes), filmmaker and avowed Photo courtesy of Niko von Glasow sports hater niko von Glasow serves as our quirky guide to the 2012 summer Paralympics in London. As he meets a one- handed norwegian table tennis player, the Rwandan sitting shares the experience of having a physical disability, he is volleyball team, an American archer without arms and a able to ask direct and pointed questions that would have Greek paraplegic boccia player, his own stereotypes about seemed rude from nearly anyone else. disability and sports are delightfully punctured. Von Glasow spares neither the athletes nor himself in his in - Von Glasow, himself a “thalidomide baby” born with severely quiries about life, sport and fears. This is no patronizing cel - shortened arms, has both a natural affinity with and an aver - ebration of accomplishments by people who have overcome sion to the athletes he profiles. He cannot understand how obstacles. instead, the film is an invitation to look beyond anyone could take on such an ordeal voluntarily, especially stereotypes, to see the full lives and complex personalities of because everyday life for people with disabilities is world-class athletes and, in the process, to expand our think - often challenging enough. But as an insider who ing about what it means to be “able-bodied.” DISCUSSION GUIDE My Way To Olympia |4 POTENTIAL PARTNERS KEY ISSUES My Way To Olympia is well suited for use in a variety of My Way To Olympia is an excellent tool for outreach settings and is especially recommended for use with: and will be of special interest to people looking to ex - plore the following topics: • Your local PBS station • Groups that have discussed previous PBS and POV • Adaptive technologies and design films relating to people with disabilities and • Adoption adaptive sports, including When I Walk, Freedom • Archery Machines, If I Can’t Do It, No Bigger Than a • Athletics Minute, Kokoyakyu, Ping Pong, Medal Quest and Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey • Boccia • Groups focused on any of the issues listed in the • Bosnia Key Issues section • Disability • High school students, youth groups and clubs • Inclusion • Faith-based organizations and institutions • Independence • Cultural, art and historical organizations, • International competition institutions and museums • Muscular dystrophy • Civic, fraternal, professional and community • Olympic Games groups • Paralympic Games • Sports leagues • Sports • Academic departments and student groups at • Table tennis (ping pong) colleges, universities and high schools • Thalidomide • Community organizations with a mission to promote education and learning, such as local • Volleyball libraries. USING THIS GUIDE This guide is an invitation to dialogue. it is based on a belief in the power of human connection, designed for people who want to use My Way To Olympia to engage family, friends, classmates, colleagues and communities. in contrast to ini - tiatives that foster debates in which participants try to convince others that they are right, this document envisions con - versations undertaken in a spirit of openness in which people try to understand one another and expand their thinking by sharing viewpoints and listening actively. The discussion prompts are intentionally crafted to help a wide range of audiences think more deeply about the issues in the film. Rather than attempting to address them all, choose one or two that best meet your needs and interests. And be sure to leave time to consider taking action. Planning next steps can help people leave the room feeling energized and optimistic, even in instances when conversations have been difficult. For more detailed event planning and facilitation tips, visit www.pov.org/engage DISCUSSION GUIDE My Way To Olympia |5 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Niko von Glasow. Niko von Glasow Photo courtesy of Niko von Glasow Born with severely shortened arms after his mother took thalidomide (a drug that was commonly used in the 1950s and 1960s to treat nausea in pregnant women, but was later discovered to cause birth defects) while pregnant with him, Sources: niko von Glasow started his filmmaking career making cof - DW. “Film About Thalidomide Victims Breaks emotional Taboos.” fee for German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He went http://www.dw.de/film-about-thalidomide-victims-breaks-emotional- on to study film at new York university and the Lodz Film taboos/a-3636886 school in Poland. in NoBody’s Perfect (2008), he convinced Palladio Film. “niko von Glasow.” 11 other people born with disabilities from thalidomide to http://www.palladiofilm.com/en/team/niko-von-glasow.html pose for a nude calendar. The film won the German Film Award for Best Documentary, brought him worldwide recognition and helped fuel a successful campaign to in - The Paralympic Games crease compensation for the 2,700 surviving victims of The first incarnation of the Paralympic Games (sometimes thalidomide in Germany. Von Glasow also holds talks and referred to as the Paralympics) took place in england in workshops on screenwriting and directing worldwide. His 1948. The games were organized to provide rehabilitation distaste for athletics is rooted in his frustrations as a disabled for World War ii veterans with spinal-cord injuries. other child forced to play sports. With My Way To Olympia , von countries participated in the next round of games and, in Glasow sets out to discover the motivations of Paralympic 1960 in Rome, competitions were held in an olympic stadium athletes and challenge his own assumptions. for the first time. DISCUSSION GUIDE My Way To Olympia |6 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Ping pong tables. The Paralympic Games are now one of the largest interna - Photo courtesy of Niko von Glasow tional sporting events in the world. The summer and winter Paralympic Games are held in the same arenas and venues as the olympic Games, but separately and two weeks later. Like the olympic Games, the Paralympic Games have open - wheelchair or quad rugby, have no olympic equivalent. new ing and closing ceremonies and torch relays. each country is sports continue to be added to the Paralympic Games. For represented by a national team of athletes who qualify example, a new sport for the 2014 winter games was snow - through official competitions.
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