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HANDS - A Lockdown Short Documentary Film

A short documentary about a woman in lockdown slowly losing the use of her hands. *WINNER* Best New Freelance Director Feb 2021, Shiny Awards (February) Best Micro Short - Wolverhampton Film Festival 2023 Best Lockdown Film - Woodland Film Festival 2021 Best Micro Film - RED Movie Awards 2021 SEMI FINALIST - Rhode Island International Film Festival 2021 (Academy Award Qualifier) OFFICIAL SELECTION Shiny Awards, Best Director Feb 2021 Wolverhampton Film Festival 2023 Woodland Film Festival 2021 Ealing Film Festival 2021 McMinnville Short Film Festival 2021 Swindon Independent Film Festival 2021 RED Movie Awards 2021 Austin Micro Film Festival 2021 Jump Cuts Film Festival 2021 DaVinci International Film festival 2020 Tweet Fest Film Festival 2020 Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival 2020 Oregon Documentary Film Festival 2020 Walthamstow International Film Festival 2020 Canada Shorts Film Festival 2020 Hands & Voice by Savita Ayling Music by Christian Lloyd Directed & Edited by Rob Ayling Filmed during the first 10 weeks of the first national Lockdown 2020 - Bristol UK #Hands #Documentary #ShortFilm #Lockdown

Rob Ayling

2 years ago

every morning I have to take eight different medicines turn ask me what they're for one day I went to the supermarket I dropped the counter for the trolley when I bent down to pick it up I fell over and I couldn't get up I had absolutely no strength in my hands or legs the problem with your hands is you don't realize what you can't do until you try to do it and it times in my life when life has been a challenge having a garden has been the thing that I'll always come back to I couldn't lift the
compost I couldn't lift the pots I was watching plants that I bought died in front of me and that was really hard 24 hours seven days a week I have a tingling sensation in my legs I haven't been alone through all of this but I think through sheer will and determination I've managed to fight back I've been able to stand there every Thursday night the last take weeks to thank the people who even though they couldn't help me because they had no idea what was going on this Dordogne they've helped so
many other people and I would have been devastated if I didn't have the strength and applaud them I know that one day I will go to do something and it simply won't happen [Music] you

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