SlingShot
Part of the fun of SlingShot is that it's a porthole into the life of a genius.
-- Christina Cauterucci, Washington City Paper
SlingShot
SlingShot focuses on Segway inventor Dean Kamen, his fascinating life, and his work to solve the world’s water crisis.
Kamen is a true iconoclast and a modern hero. His inventions, mostly medical devices, help people in need and ease suffering. Several documentaries have been produced about the world’s dire water challenges. SlingShot is a film about an indomitable man who just might have enough passion, will, and innovative thinking to create a solution for a crisis that affects billions.
A quirky genius with a sharp wit and a provocative worldview, Kamen is our era’s Thomas Edison. He takes on the world’s grand challenges one invention at a time. Best known for his Segway Human Transporter, Kamen has reconceived kidney dialysis, engineered an electric wheelchair that can travel up stairs (the iBot), reworked the heart stent, built portable insulin pumps, founded FIRST robotics to inspire young students, and on and on. Holder of over 440 U.S. and foreign patents, Kamen devotes himself to dreaming up products that improve people’s lives. For the last 15 years, he has relentlessly pursued an effective way to clean up the world’s water supply.
Fifty percent of all human illness is the result of water borne pathogens. Dean Kamen has invented an energy efficient vapor compression distiller that can turn any unfit source of water (seawater, poisoned well water, river sludge, etc.) into potable, safe water without any need for chemical additives or filters. Kamen has nicknamed his device the SlingShot as in the David and Goliath story. In Kamen’s imagining, undeveloped countries are filled with little Davids, and just like the biblical slingshot and stone, the SlingShot device is the tiny piece of technology that is going to take down the gigantic Goliath of bad water.
WINNER - Best of Fest at AFI Docs
WINNER - Audience Award at Cinequest Film Festival
WINNER - Environmental Award at Newport Beach Film Festival
WINNER - Audience Award at Kansas City Film Festival
WINNER - Audience Award at Florida Film Festival
WINNER - Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at Florida Film Festival
WINNER - Best Director Award and EcoFilm Award at Boston Film Festival
WINNER - Best Feature Documentary Award and Van McLeod Award at New Hampshire Film Festival
WINNER - Interdependence Award at Berkshire International Film Festival
WINNER - Director’s Choice Best Feature Documentary at Sedona International Film Festival
WINNER - Neapolitan Award at Naples International Film Festival
and more!
Kamen is a true iconoclast and a modern hero. His inventions, mostly medical devices, help people in need and ease suffering. Several documentaries have been produced about the world’s dire water challenges. SlingShot is a film about an indomitable man who just might have enough passion, will, and innovative thinking to create a solution for a crisis that affects billions.
A quirky genius with a sharp wit and a provocative worldview, Kamen is our era’s Thomas Edison. He takes on the world’s grand challenges one invention at a time. Best known for his Segway Human Transporter, Kamen has reconceived kidney dialysis, engineered an electric wheelchair that can travel up stairs (the iBot), reworked the heart stent, built portable insulin pumps, founded FIRST robotics to inspire young students, and on and on. Holder of over 440 U.S. and foreign patents, Kamen devotes himself to dreaming up products that improve people’s lives. For the last 15 years, he has relentlessly pursued an effective way to clean up the world’s water supply.
Fifty percent of all human illness is the result of water borne pathogens. Dean Kamen has invented an energy efficient vapor compression distiller that can turn any unfit source of water (seawater, poisoned well water, river sludge, etc.) into potable, safe water without any need for chemical additives or filters. Kamen has nicknamed his device the SlingShot as in the David and Goliath story. In Kamen’s imagining, undeveloped countries are filled with little Davids, and just like the biblical slingshot and stone, the SlingShot device is the tiny piece of technology that is going to take down the gigantic Goliath of bad water.
WINNER - Best of Fest at AFI Docs
WINNER - Audience Award at Cinequest Film Festival
WINNER - Environmental Award at Newport Beach Film Festival
WINNER - Audience Award at Kansas City Film Festival
WINNER - Audience Award at Florida Film Festival
WINNER - Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at Florida Film Festival
WINNER - Best Director Award and EcoFilm Award at Boston Film Festival
WINNER - Best Feature Documentary Award and Van McLeod Award at New Hampshire Film Festival
WINNER - Interdependence Award at Berkshire International Film Festival
WINNER - Director’s Choice Best Feature Documentary at Sedona International Film Festival
WINNER - Neapolitan Award at Naples International Film Festival
and more!
Genre
Documentary,
Bio-pic
Runtime
88
Language
English
Played at
Royal 7.17.15 - 7.23.15
Playhouse 7 7.17.15 - 7.23.15
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