Directed by award winning filmmaker Ross Whitaker (When Ali Came to Ireland; Saviours), Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock Story follows the almost unbelievable tragedies that life has thrown at Mark and his resolve to move beyond them. Unbroken by blindness at 22, Mark was a Commonwealth Games medal winner and competed in ultra endurance races across deserts, mountains and the polar ice caps and, ten years after losing his sight, he became the first blind person to race to the South Pole; a race that allowed him to finally put the demons of blindness behind him. But then, just four weeks from the day of his planned wedding to fiancée Simone, a fall 25 feet from a second story window left Mark near death and paralysed from the waist down.
This moving, fascinating and ultimately uplifting film brings the audience to Mark’s bedside in the acute ward of a spinal hospital - blind, now paralysed and broken. The close friendship between Mark and the filmmaker has produced a delicate, deeply personal and intensely intimate film. Six years in the making, it tells the story of Mark’s eventual rehabilitation and his mission to find and connect people worldwide to fast track a cure for paralysis, a mission which gives the audience a glimpse of the frontiers of robotics and medical science.
IN CINEMAS ON OCTOBER 9th, ON DVD/EST FROM OCTOBER 23rd. The trailer is above.
