The Way You Shine

THE WAY YOU SHINE accompanies four young people in their daily lives. Four people full of life, with clear goals – to find a job, be politically active, marry, have children. Four people who have to overcome many obstacles in order to reach these goals, as they are often pigeonholed by society – they are people with Down syndrome
Data
- aka
- Kind of Happy
- Category
- Documentary, New Talent
- Financing
- Nationaler Film
- Format
- Digit., 80 Min
- Release
- 17.03.2023
- Distribution
- Filmcasino & Polyfilm Betriebs GmbH
- Admissions
- 4.886
- Funding Film Institute
- 175.000 €
- Share of total production costs
- 44 %
- Television investment
- 80.000 €
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 05.05.2024
- Viewers
- 49.000
- Film location
- Austria, Germany
- Shooting time
- June 2020 - July 2021
- Days of shooting
- 27
- Completion
- Fall 2022
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
- Production
- Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
- Producer
- Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser
- Director
- Evelyne Faye
- Script-concept
- Evelyne Faye
- DOP
- Michael Schindegger
- Editor
- Joana Scrinzi
- Sound engineer
- Ines Vorreiter, Lenka Mikulová
- Production manager
- Antonia Bernkopf
- German Title
- Lass mich fliegen
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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