All the Light We Cannot See, an American drama limited series developed for Netflix, will be released next Thursday, November 2. The four part-series, based on Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel that carries the same name, follows the stories of two teenagers—a blind French girl named Marie-Laure and a German soldier named Werner—whose paths cross in enemy-occupied France during World War II.

BVA National Headquarters has been invited to a special live screening of the series by the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) at 7:00pm on November 1. Additional BVA stakeholders in the National Capital Region are also welcome to attend and participate. Admission is free for one patron and two guests. The screening will be followed by an in-person conversation with Shawn Levy (Director/Executive Producer), author Doerr, and Joe Strechay (Associate Producer/Blindness and Accessibility Consultant). The discussion will be moderated by NLS Director Jason Broughton.

The site of the screening, which will be played with open audio descriptions and open captions, is the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress at 10 First Street SE, Washington, DC, 20003. The doors of the auditorium will open at 6:00pm.

The story behind All the Light We Cannot See has the blind Marie-Laure Leblanc (actress Aria Mia Loberti) taking refuge with her father and reclusive uncle in St. Malo, France, and Werner (actor Louis Hoffman), a brilliant teenager with an expertise in radio who is enlisted by Hitler’s regime. The two teens together share a secret connection that will become a beacon of light that leads them through the horrors of World War II.

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