Brailled It

Tickets and Showtimes! Every year, the best under-18 braille readers and writers in the English-speaking world come to Los Angeles to compete in the Braille Challenge. For one weekend, these blind and low-vision kids aren’t the minority in the room as they make new…

Roxie Theater

As in Wiseman's Blind & Deaf series the most stirring footage here is not of the contestants at work, doing...whatever it is they are doing with their interesting braille writers, but of their time spent manoeuvring the world. The decision to strap cameras onto the chest…

Luke Robinson

Slamdance Film Festival #6

Morgan

Slamdance 2026 #9 The fact that there are braille competitions would be interesting enough for a documentary, but what really elevates this is the way it was filmed: directly from the point of view of three contestants who were wearing GoPro cameras. We see them not only…

Stegrelo

Brailled It feels tailor-made for Slamdance’s Documentary or Unstoppable sections; a film driven by access, authorship, and the radical idea of letting a community tell its own story. https://battleroyalewithcheese.com/2026/02/brailled-it/

BRWC

A really wonderful and unique doc. My mom is blind and has just started reading Braille in the past year or so, and it's made her so happy to be able to read again. Seeing Braille taken to this competitive level is so fascinating, and the filmmakers did a great job…

Clayton Walter

The camera is supposed to know where to look. Cinema has trained us to expect this small act of obedience: a face centered at the right moment, a gesture preserved before it disappears, an emotion waiting patiently inside the frame. Brailled It gives some of that authority…

gazettely

This doc was shot by blind and limited sighted kids competing in an annual Braille competition using body cameras. While I appreciate the chance to experience blind youth just hanging out being normal kids, the body camera footage is pretty disorienting for a sighted…

Terri Murphy

Very heartfelt and emotional, the competition sequences in the film are genuinely really exciting to watch. Broke: Oscars 2026. Woke: Braille Challenge 2026. Would've maybe liked to see more of these kids in their personal lives because there's maybe too much focus on the…

JacobhasaLB