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Two Awards for Saving Edwards

Saving Edwards | Dagmar Smrzova | Czech Republic | 2010
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One of the Caravan titles, Czech documentary Saving Edwards by Dagmar Smrzova won two awards at International Festival of Science Documentary Films - Academia Film Olomouc (AFO). The film was honoured with the RWE Award for the Best Czech documentary film and was very positively received by the audience, as indicates the Audience Award for this film.

Academia Film Olomouc, Czech Republic
April 12 – 17, 2011

 

Saving Edwards

Producer: Fenič Fero
Production company: FEBIO - Film and Television Company, HBO Czech Republic

Zachraňte Edwardse, Czech Republic, 2010, 80 min, Beta SP, Health, Society

For the purposes of this film, Edwards is a child; a long-awaited child of a loving couple, a child struck with a terrible and fatal mistake at conception. Edwards had an extra chromosome, one more than the exact number required for the development of a healthy baby. This flaw causes severe developmental disorders that cannot support life. The condition was first described by American medical scientist John Alexander Edwards, hence the name Edwards Syndrome. Considering modern prenatal diagnostics, it is very uncommon for such children to be born. In the majority of cases, the pregnancy is terminated. The parents of this child decided otherwise. The film follows the struggle of the parents to save a child who was buried by many long before being born.

East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan 2010

 

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