Please Don’t Rush

2014 Official Selection
Docweek Australia
Byron Bay Film Festival
St. Kilda Film Festival (Nominated – Craft Award)
New York City International Film Festival (Nominated – Best Short Documentary)

At a school for blind in Laos, children who cannot see are raised away from their families.
For many, their parents have abandoned them, as the difficulty of raising a blind child in impoverished Laos is too much to bear.
Amazingly however, their failing sight if often treatable. Sometimes a simple pair of prescription glasses is all it takes to find the cure.
Please Don’t Rush is a touching and powerful short film. It reveals how a little bit of time, care and compassion can change a person’s destiny for the rest of their life.
(synopsis by Docweek).

Credits
Produced by Urtext Films
Director/Images: Matthew Salleh
Producer/Sound: Rose Tucker

Translation by Ky Ratanatray

Produced with the generous support of Sight For All.
www.sightforall.org

Filmed on location in Laos.

Worldwide Screening Program 2014