David Holmes speaks to Yahoo UK about making his new Sky documentary an "empowering" experience.
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00:00 this obviously like you've already been saying you know you're bringing you know what was done
00:04 people do to the forefront because often they can be overlooked or at least their hard work
00:09 and the training that they go into kind of I guess is taken for granted in general by general
00:15 audiences and I wonder how do you hope that this film can change this? As a disabled man if we can
00:22 highlight that you know the fact that I'm not just a disability there is a person here you know and I
00:28 shine through past my disability and you know I remember early days you know telling Dan that
00:36 I don't want a single camera looking down at me you know everything should be shut up everything
00:41 should be empowering instead of disempowering with regards to framing my disability and
00:47 throughout the journey along the way all of my friends and peer support group in the disabled
00:53 community have been part of this part of this film in weather and also part of my life in
00:59 you know help helping me survive and see myself as a survivor and not a victim.
01:04 [Silence]