Emmanuel's gift

Resource Information

The work Emmanuel's gift represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Alpha Park Public Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Emmanuel's gift

Statement of responsibility

First Look International ; Lookalike presents ; a film by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern ; directed & produced by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern ; written by Elizabeth Massie, Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern

Contributor

• First Look Home Entertainment
• Lookalike Productions
• Lax, Lisa
• Massie, Elizabeth
• Stern, Nancy, 1964-
• Winfrey, Oprah
• Yeboah, Emmanuel Ofosu, 1977-

Subject

• Ciclismo -- Ghana
• Cycling
• Cycling
• Cycling
• Cycling -- Ghana
• Discapacitados -- Ghana
• Documentary -- Feature
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Ghana
• Handicapped -- Ghana
• People with disabilities
• People with disabilities
• People with disabilities -- Ghana
• Spanish subtitles
• Sports for people with disabilities
• Sports for people with disabilities -- Ghana
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Yeboah, Emmanuel Ofosu
• Yeboah, Emmanuel Ofosu, 1977-
• Yeboah, Emmanuel Ofosu, 1977-

Genre

• Documentary
• Documentary films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Ghana is not a good place to have a disability--parents either poison their disabled children, or leave them to die in the forest--it's called "seeing off." At best, the disabled are expected to be beggars. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born with one deformed leg, which led his father to abandon his mother. Until her early death, she championed her son, enrolling him in school and taking him to various doctors searching for a cure. Her encouragement proved long lasting, as this documentary tells how Emmanuel became a successful amputee athlete. Today, he works to bring political and social change to Ghana's disabled

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Samson Chan ; edited by April Wilson, Meredith Paige ; music by Jeff Beal ; translated by Yvonne Marfo

Dewey number

362.4/083

Intended audience

MPAA Rating: Rated G

Language note

In English with optional Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

HV1569.3.Y68

LC item number

E46368457 2006

PerformerNote

Narrated by Oprah Winfrey; with Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, Bob Babbit, Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, Jeffrey Essakow, Paul O'Keeffe, Sam Aidoo, Kwame Mubarak, Gordon Adoboe, Christine Churcher, Jim MacLaren, Christopher Jobe, Michael Jackson, Rudy Garcia-Tolson, Tabi King, Nana Dr. Ott Boateng, Dickson Kwajo Ofosu, Sarah Abbey, Gladys Abbey, Yaw Barimah, George Amofah, Charles Appiagyei, Osmond Annum, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin

Runtime

80

Target audience

general

Technique

live action