Congratulations Lorenzo DeStefano ! It is with extreme joy and excitement that we inform you that your film, “Hearing is Believing”, has been awarded “Best Documentary” at the 2019 Sight + Sound Film Festival in Oxnard, California. The festival committee discussed and reviewed all the films included in this year’s event to come up with…
Year: 2019
“A rare gift: Music prodigy Rachel Flowers”
By BETH ADAMS • JAN 14, 2019 WXXI’s Beth Adams talks to musician Rachel Flowers and filmmaker Lorenzo Destefano. When Rachel Flowers was born 15 weeks premature in 1993, she weighed just one and a half pounds. She lost her vision three months later due to a condition called retinopathy of prematurity. But when you talk to Rachel…