Blink is a documentary film distributed by National Geographic Documentary Films in partnership with The Walt Disney Studios.
The documentary follows the Pelletier family, who set out on an epic journey to see the beauty of the world when three of their four children are diagnosed with an incurable eye condition. The film follows the family over the course of a year as they traverse 24 countries, filling their visual memories with breathtaking locations and once-in-a-lifetime encounters. Their destinations included Botswana, Cambodia, Canada (Montreal and Kuujjuaq), China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Laos, Namibia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States (New York City), Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Blink stars Edith Lemay, Sébastien Pelletier, Mia Pelletier, Léo Pelletier, Colin Pelletier, Laurent Pelletier, François Lemay and Pauline Sirois. The film is directed by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher and produced by Melanie Miller (p.g.a) and Diane Becker (p.g.a).
The documentary follows the Pelletier family, who set out on an epic journey to see the beauty of the world when three of their four children are diagnosed with an incurable eye condition. The film follows the family over the course of a year as they traverse 24 countries, filling their visual memories with breathtaking locations and once-in-a-lifetime encounters. Their destinations included Botswana, Cambodia, Canada (Montreal and Kuujjuaq), China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Laos, Namibia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States (New York City), Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Blink stars Edith Lemay, Sébastien Pelletier, Mia Pelletier, Léo Pelletier, Colin Pelletier, Laurent Pelletier, François Lemay and Pauline Sirois. The film is directed by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher and produced by Melanie Miller (p.g.a) and Diane Becker (p.g.a).
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00:00Our kids were pretty young when we learned three out of four have retinitis pigmentosa.
00:25For some people, their field of vision is going to go completely dark.
00:29I am thinking it's this I like.
00:32There's no treatment.
00:33There's nothing they can do about it.
00:34It's just too much.
00:36You're powerless.
00:37That the freckles in our eyes are mirror immersion.
00:41Traveling is always something that had been on her mind.
00:44So we said, let's do it now.
00:46Let's go all in and fill their visual memory with as much beautiful thing as we can.
00:53Are we ready?
00:54Yes!
00:55Okay, let's go!
01:02We asked them, if you can do any activity anywhere in the world, what you want to do.
01:11See a sunrise on a mountain, make friends in other countries.
01:15Daphné said, I want to drink juice on a camel.
01:18Like, really?
01:19Why?
01:23Yeah!
01:32Yes, they're going to need help, but at the same time, it's going to be their life in their own way.
01:39The hardest thing about being a parent is letting go.
01:42Oh my God!
01:47We can't hide in that perfect future.
01:52Our story is a blank page.
01:56Like stepping in the unknown.