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New Documentary: Overcoming challenges through skiing

The Movement Film PosterRick Finkelstein was an executive at Universal Pictures and an avid skier. In 2004 he was paralyzed from a skiing accidents The Movement is a new documentary that  tells the story of  Rick's eventual return to skiing using a monoski . Filmed by renowned ski filmaker Kurt Miller and narrated by Robert Redford the film also includes Jim Martinson who lost his legs when a land mine exploded in Vietnam, Mike May, blinded from a chemical explosion when he was three years old and Chris Waddell, a college skier paralyzed from the waste down because of a skiing accident. The film documents how Rick and his fellow skiiers overcame their disabilities and learned how to be some the best skiers around The Movement is an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival [caption id="attachment_5806" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="Rick Finkelstein carves down Aspen's Snowmass mountain. Paralyzed in a ski accident six years earlier, he was linking turns again on his very first run. Photo credit: Michael Faas"]The Movement Film[/caption]  

WRITTEN ON January 24, 2012 BY:

Tzvi Schectman

Tzvi Schectman is the Family Coordinator for the Friendship Circle of Michigan and the Editor of the the Friendship Circle Blog. You can connect with Tzvi on LinkedIn and Google+