Nine minutes to make you ugly-cry about a boy losing sight and finding life.
"Blindsided" follows a kid (Sam Menard) who gets diagnosed with a Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare eye disease, making him go blind. Together, he and his mom (Liesl Cruz) create a bucket list and try to check off everything before it is too late.
Acting
Kid and mom sell a lifetime in under ten minutes.
Direction
Ethan Hood wastes zero seconds—every frame earns its keep.
Director
Ethan Hood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Retinitis Pigmentosa affects roughly 1 in 4,000 people; this short puts a rare disease in devastatingly personal focus.
The 9-minute runtime mirrors the protagonist's shrinking window of vision—urgency built into form.
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