Holding Still

Synopsis

We meet Janice, who has lived in Seaside for over twenty years, however almost none of the other residents have ever seen her. Janis was paralysed at the age of 22 and has spent the following twenty years mostly in bed. She looks at the world via surveillance cameras connected to her laptop. We look at her hometown, Seaside, once the location of the feature film The Truman Show, through her eyes.

Director Biography

After extensive stays in Israel and South America, Florian RIEGEL (1978, Germany) began studying Political Science at the FU Berlin in 2002. From 2003 till 2009 he was educated in documentary film making at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.