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

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

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

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

Brailled It nails it! I absolutely love docs like this, and for this to be told entirely by the participants is so refreshing, such a unique viewpoint, I found it utterly fascinating. Reminiscent of Spreadsheet Champions, you can’t help but get caught up in the excitement…

David

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

There is much to be admired about Brailled It, a competition documentary showcasing the annual Braille Challenge. One is that the film includes audio descriptions throughout, making it automatically accessible for blind and low-vision audiences. Another is that it’s shot by…

Nonfics