Sharon Greytak is a filmmaker who is confined to a wheelchair. Curious to see the differences and commonalities of life for handicapped people around the world, Greytak and her camera crew visited differently abled people in a number of different countries (most of them less prosperous and less concerned with handicapped accessibility than the United States), and Losing It was the result of her investigation. In Siberia, Greytak meets Fyodor Krasov, who has cerebral palsy; in Italy, she encounters Marino Crivellari, who has lost the ability to speak as a result of an unusual blood disease, though he can still function otherwise; Sao Paulo is home to Maria Pacheco, a woman crippled by polio; and Edith Mok is a woman from Hong Kong who copes with the after-effects of a stroke. As Greytak gets to know her subjects, they discuss how their handicaps have impacted their lives and their identities, at once making them hard to ignore but easy for society at large to avoid. Losing It had its world premiere at the 2001 Santa Barbara Film Festival.
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