{"id":3570,"date":"2018-06-17T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/06\/17\/lucid-billy-zane-just-made-a-movie-with-a-blind-director-and-didnt-even-realize-it\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:06:09","slug":"lucid-billy-zane-just-made-a-movie-with-a-blind-director-and-didnt-even-realize-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/06\/17\/lucid-billy-zane-just-made-a-movie-with-a-blind-director-and-didnt-even-realize-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lucid\u2019: Billy Zane Just Made a Movie with a Blind Director \u2014 and Didn\u2019t Even Realize It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/adam-morse\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-morse\">Adam Morse<\/a>&#8217;s debut feature is about to have its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, an impressive feat for any budding filmmaker. It&#8217;s doubly so for Morse, however, as the writer\/director has just publicly revealed that he&#8217;s legally blind. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/jun\/16\/adam-morse-blind-director-lucid-edinburgh-film-festival-nilly-zane-sadie-frost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a Guardian interview<\/a>, Morse says he wanted \u201cto stop focusing on the limitations and instead concentrate on what I could do.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/06\/human-rights-watch-film-festival-2018-programming-1201975587\/\" title=\"Important Movies For Troubled Times: Human Rights Film Festival Head Explains How to Program With Purpose\">Important Movies For Troubled Times: Human Rights Film Festival Head Explains How to Program With Purpose<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>He did so with the help of his cinematographer, Michel Dierickx, as well as a 60-inch monitor and screen reader. Though the filmmaker&#8217;s director of photography was aware of his visual impairment from the outset, one person was not: star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/billy-zane\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-zane\">Billy Zane<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cBilly didn\u2019t know, and I only told him two days after we started filming. He didn\u2019t believe me,\u201d Morse said.<\/p>\n<p>He also concealed his condition from at least one financier until &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/lucid\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lucid\">Lucid<\/a>&#8221; had already screened for test audiences.\u00a0\u201cI didn\u2019t want [the investors] to find out and then pull the plug on us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had that anxiety of being found out every time I went to a meeting with one of them. I would bump into something or they would point to something across the room or on the screen of their phone and I would have to fake it \u2014 pretend that I knew what they were looking at \u2026 None of them were any the wiser about my condition thankfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/06\/box-office-eating-animals-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-gotti-rbg-1201975453\/\" title=\"Documentaries Rock the Specialty Box Office: \u2018Gotti\u2019 Ain\u2019t Got It\">Documentaries Rock the Specialty Box Office: \u2018Gotti\u2019 Ain\u2019t Got It<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Lucid&#8221; concerns a therapist (Zane) who suggests that a patient experiment with lucid dreaming. It will have its world premiere June 23. Morse&#8217;s intent in making the film is clear: \u201cI just want to inspire those who lack faith in the universe, spread a positive message and lead by example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Morse&#8217;s debut feature is about to have its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, an impressive feat for any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-VA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}