Xinmu Foundation's Impactful Vision Assistance Programs
Xinmu Cinema – Movie Narrations for the Visually Impaired (1-2 Times Weekly)
Movie narration refers to trained narrators describing scenes with accurate and vivid language while the film is playing, providing visual information to help visually impaired friends experience a complete movie. After over a decade of exploration, we have introduced the method of compensating for visual information loss—visual narration, narrating the world for the visually impaired. For those with visual impairments, the most urgent plea is: ‘Tell me what you see?’ The role of visual narration is to answer this call by telling our blind friends, ‘I see this.’ Thus, we have started narrating other outstanding video works for our visually impaired friends.
Blind Film Festival — December 1st to 5th, 2018
In 2018, the inaugural Beijing Blind Film Festival, under the guidance of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Social Work Committee and the Beijing Disabled Persons’ Federation, was organized by the HeartVision Foundation of Beijing. The event, hosted by the Red Dandan Visual Impairment Cultural Service Center, aimed to recognize individuals and organizations contributing to the art of visual narration, commend volunteers and organizations providing visual narration services for the blind, discuss the innovative development of cross-disciplinary visual narration and public welfare in cinema, promote professional assistance for the visually impaired, and share achievements in both public welfare cinema and professional assistance for the visually impaired.
Three Days of Darkness: Care and Experience Program
On May 13, 2005, the first ‘Empathy and Experience for the Sighted’ program, titled ‘If Given Three Days of Darkness,’ was held at Beijing Yuxin School. This charitable initiative was organized by Red Dandan to promote mutual understanding between sighted individuals and the visually impaired community and foster communication and assistance for the blind. Up to 2022, over 200 sessions have been successfully conducted, involving more than 10,000 participants.
Blind Children Reading Assistance Program
The world of the blind and the sighted are entirely different. In the same scene, the information accessed by both sides is unequal. In situations with such information gaps and lack of communication, misunderstandings can easily arise. To alleviate this phenomenon, HeartVision Foundation produces international standard audio books for blind children. These books are created using visual narration to disseminate knowledge.
Walk Alongside the Visually Impaired. Joyful Integrated Funlympics
Following the 2008 Olympic Games, the ‘Joyful Integrated’ Fun Sports Event for the Blind and Sighted has been held annually from the Blind Day in October 2009 to October 14, 2018. It has been conducted for ten consecutive years.
