Documentary
New Talent

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)