For the Left Hand
At age 10, aspiring pianist Norman Malone is paralyzed on his right side after being attacked by his father. Over the next several decades he masters the left-hand repertoire in secret, before a chance discovery of his talent leads him towards making his concert debut. Aged 78, he will perform the greatest work in the canon: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
Original title: For the Left Hand
International title: For the Left Hand
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min / 52 min
Language: English
Director: Gordon Quinn, Leslie Simmer
Cast: Norman Malone
Production company: Kartemquin Films
Awards:
Woods Hole Film Festival – Best Documentary Feature
Special Humanitarian Award, Best Documentary
Feature Runner Up
Heartland International Film Festival – Documentary
Official Selection Audience Award
Festivals:
Woods Hole Film Festival | Woods Hole, MA | July
2021
New Haven Documentary Film Festival | New Haven,
CT | August 2021
Chicago International Film Festival | Chicago, IL |
October 2021
Doctober | Bellingham, WA | October 2021
BendFilm | Bend, OR | October 2021
Heartland International Film Festival | Indianapolis, IN |
October 2021
United Nations Association Film Festival | Palo Alto, CA
| October 2021
Docutah | St. George, UT | November 2021
St. Louis International Film Festival | St. Louis, MO |
November 2021
Driftless Film Festival | Mineral Point, WI | November
2021
Belleville Downtown DocFest | Belleville, Ontario,
Canada | February 2022
GORDON QUINN (DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) is the Artistic and co-founder
of Kartemquin Films, where over the past 50+ years he has helped hundreds of
documentary filmmakers advance their projects forward and been a leading champion of
the rights of all documentary filmmakers. He is the 2015 recipient of the International
Documentary Association Career Achievement Award and was a key leader in creating
the Documentary Filmmakers Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. His credits as
director and producer include films as diverse and essential as Boycott (2017),
Inquiring Nuns (1966), Golub (1988), and A Good Man (2011), and as executive
producer include Academy-Award nominated films Minding the Gap (2018), Abacus:
Small Enough to Jail (2016), Hoop Dreams (1994), and the Emmy Award-winning The
Interrupters (2011), The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013), The Homestretch (2014), and
Life Itself (2014), and the acclaimed limited series The New Americans (2003) and Hard
Earned (2015).
LESLIE SIMMER (DIRECTOR, EDITOR) is Kartemquin’s Director of Editing and Senior
Editor on staff and has worked at Kartemquin for over 20 years in various capacities.
She edited Steve James' series America to Me, which aired on the Starz network in
2018. She also edited and co-wrote Raising Bertie (2016) which premiered at Full
Frame, was broadcast on POV, and was named by Slate Magazine as one of the 15
best docs of 2017. Leslie has also edited and co-wrote the Emmy Award-winning film,
The Homestretch (2015, Hot Docs and PBS’s Independent Lens); edited and co-wrote
the Emmy-nominated documentary As Goes Janesville (Independent Lens 2012); edited
Steve James’ ESPN film No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson; edited the Emmy-
nominated In the Family (for which she received the Best Editing prize at the "Best of the
Midwest Awards”), and co-edited with Steve James on the award-winning The War
Tapes (Tribeca Film Festival). From 2001-2004 she wore dual hats on the seven-part
PBS series The New Americans as both Series Story Editor and Post Production
Supervisor.
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