SALUTING PIONEERING VISIONARIES

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Vision Awards on 12 June at the 35th annual Vision Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, USA.

The Vision Awards are presented annually to organizations and individuals who have exhibited exceptional “sight, foresight and insight” for the benefit and advancement of humankind while also enriching the lives of people with visual impairments.

The awards program is administered by www.visionawards.org an organization dedicated to raising awareness of retinitis pigmentosa and ending degenerative blindness. RP International was founded in 1974 by Helen Harris, after she lost her sight to retinitis pigmentosa and learned that her two sons also had the genetically-transmitted disease.

Vision Honorees

Chad Hurley,Steve Chen,Wilfrid J. Wilkinson,Patricia Murray,Mary Green,Dong Feng Chen, Ph.D., M.D.,Jack LaLanne,Stacy Keach,Danny Glover,Malcolm McDowell,Martin Landau,Fernando Meirelles,George A. Romero,James Ivory,Jim Miller,Mike Elliott,Jason Katims,Niv Fichman,Russell Smith,Rob Stewart,Jennifer Gibgot,Lianne Halfon,Chris Gardner,James Newton Howard,Peter Golub,Ferzaad Moosa, M.D.,Sir Martin J. Evans FRS, DSC

Television Honorees

Bones, Fox.,Friday Night Lights, NBC.,Ugly Betty, ABC.,The Wire, HBO.,Without A Trace, CBS/Warner Bros.

Theatre Vision Honorees

Blindness,Miramax Films.,Charlie Wilson’s War,Universal Pictures.,The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,Miramax Films,.The Eye,Lionsgate.,The Great Debaters,MGM and The Weinstein Co.,I Am Legend,Warner Bros.,Juno,Fox Searchlight Pictures.,No Country for Old Men,Miramax Films.,Ratatouille,Buena Vista Pictures.,Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,DreamWorks SKG and Paramount Pictures.

Lovely and hard-working actress Kam Haskin already has two 2009 films in pre-production. Congrats Kam!