How does one stand-up again, after falling into unimaginable depths?
After his daughter’s birth and profound disability, adventure filmmaker Jon Earle becomes a full-time caregiver. He turns the camera towards family life to cope with his isolation.
Over ten years, these private records become a portrait of love, strain, and the daily practice of resilience inside an ordinary home.
“Resilience is not strength — it’s the courage to start again.”
About featherStrength
Stories for resilience
An intimate observational portrait of a father who gives up his filmmaking career to be a stay-at-home-dad of a child with severe, multiple development challenges.
Shot over a decade, he copes by filming day-to-day life of this family’s drastic upheaval, until he can no longer sustain the relentless weight of the new normal. The heaviness is blended with the love of two daughters, who communicate without words.
One father. One family. One story of resilience.What kind of resilience will the human family need for the next new normal?
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