Poster from Flying On One Engine

flying on one engine
a film by joshua weinstein

Friday, November 20, 2009, 7 p.m. (reception at 6 p.m.)
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Part of Southern Circuit - Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives only so he can travel to India to perform free operations in marathon-like surgery sessions in which up to 700 children receive treatment for their cleft lips and other deformities. Although Dicksheet survives on Social Security while living in his Brooklyn apartment, his life is drastically different in India, where the eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god.

Joshua Z. Weinstein, producer/director, loves people and filmmaking. He is currently directing two-dozen short films about Wyoming Outfitters for The Wyoming Channel.

Weinstein’s camerawork has appeared on BBC, VH1, Food Network, TLC, and other TV stations. He was born in New York City and currently resides in Brooklyn. His main joys in life are bicycling, family, and good cooking.