Flying On One Engine

Director: Joshua Z Weinstein
Cast: Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet
Format: HDCam   Runtime: 52 minutes
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screening in: Emerging Visions
plays with: The Ladies

Screening Times

4:00 PM, Sunday March 9th - Alamo Lamar 1
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11:00 AM, Tuesday March 11th - Alamo Lamar 1
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1:30 PM, Saturday March 15th - Alamo Lamar 1
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Synopsis:
Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives only (and barely) so he can travel to India to perform free operations in marathon-like surgery sessions where up to 700 children receive treatment for their cleft lips and other deformities. Although Dicksheet survives off of 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. FLYING ON ONE ENGINE shows how this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character overcomes his own ailments by helping others.

Director's Bio:
Joshua Z Weinstein is a NYC based filmmaker. He is a graduate from Boston University's communication school. Joshua's cinematography has been broadcasted on VH1, Food Network, TLC, VS, and E!. His main joys in life are bicycling, family, and cooking.