Production company
Pieter van Huystee Film
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 421 0606 / Fax: +31 20 638 6255
info@pvhfilm.nl
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English
Dutch
Genre
Full Length Documentary
Screening format
Digital Betacam, HD
Running time
74 minutes
Country of origin
The Netherlands
Director
Ramon Gieling
Directors assistant
Salvador Gieling
Director of Photography
Goert Giltay
Still photographer
Salvador Gieling
Sound
Danny Munoz
Sounddesign
Marc Lizier
Music
Paul M. van Brugge
Editor
Patrick Janssens
Line producer
Natascha Teunissen
Zoe de Wilde
Paulino Cuevas
Ana Sánchez
Producer
Pieter van Huystee
Commissioning editor
Margje de Koning, IKON
Publicity
Curien Kroon
curien@pvhfilm.nl
Sales agent:
Kaisa Kriek, NPO Sales
This film is supported by
The Netherlands Film Fund
CoBO Fund
Mediafonds
EuroMedia
M30M and RTVA/Canal Sud
Blind Fortune (Fortuna Ciega) is selected to be part of the Festival de Málaga, this spring. The festival takes place from April 20 - 27 and the Spanish premiere of the film will be on Friday the 26th of April.
Synopsis
Blind people don’t see the World and live in a universe of moving darkness, motionless shadows and grey spots. Their sense of touch is twice as developed as those of sighted people, their hearing is two to three times finer than that of looking fellow. In Spain, three fifths of all blind people live their work as a vendor of lottery coupons. And every day, in every village and every city you see people buying a ticket a blind vendor at a street corner or at the kiosk to buy a lottery ticket.
In this documentary we move into the world of three blind people: a lottery vendor who was blinded twenty years ago in an accident, smokes joints and dwells around the city everyday to sell lottery tickets. A boy who became blind and who is now reluctantly trained to sell lottery tickets, and a nine-year-old blind child who can afford going to school through the sale of lottery tickets. The lottery is the backdrop against which the stories of our blind characters occur.
Press
BLIND FORTUNE_Presskit NL
BLIND FORTUNE_Presskit ENG
Interview with director Ramon Gieling by Sascha Meijer
Radio interview with Ramon Gieling in Spijkers met Koppen
Stills
Trailer