BLINDNESS is a feature film, based on the romance “Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira” (Blindness), by José Saramago, Literature Nobel Prize winner.
The feature film is the first international co-production of Brazilian film industry, between Brazil (O2 Filmes), Canada (Rhombus Media) and Japan (Bee Vine Pictures).
BLINDNESS was shot in Brazil, Uruguay and Canada. The director is Fernando Meirelles and the photography director is César Charlone, who have been working together since the success of “Cidade de Deus” (City of God) and “O Jardineiro Fiel” (The Constant Gardener).
JOSHUA LAZARUS is a scoper, a telepath who listens to people's thoughts by entering their "internal landscape". There are only a handful of scopers in the world, and all of them were originally diagnosed as schizophrenics; the voices that barraged their heads were actually those of other people, which, when properly trained, they learned how to weed out. But the scopers’ gift is also their downfall -- without fail, a scoper goes insane by the age of twenty-nine.
