Back when she was in high school, aspiring filmmaker Campbell Wilmot decided to capture the day-to-day life of her longtime friend, Rhyle McKinney, who was born with a hole in her soft cleft palate and with perforations in both of her ears.
, which screened this past September in Frisco at The Champion Film Salon International Film Festival, viewers learn how the Argyle native has been able to work through disability and make strides in basketball.
In the beginning of the film, we learn from McKinney’s mom that the hole in her cleft palate made it difficult for her to eat and caused a lot of pain as well. Rhyle received her first pair of hearing aids in kindergarten, and she and her parents were equally surprised when she started to be able to hear small sounds, like the turn signal blinker in the family car or the footsteps of people around her.
“When I would go to doctors' appointments, they would say, like, ‘There's no way, it’s just gonna be too hard, she’s not going to hear anything,’” McKinney recalls. “Sports kind of was a way for me to stay away from my problems and to get away from the things that I had to deal with. Basketball just helped me become almost like a different person. I didn't feel like the person I was when I had to go to doctors' visits, or when I have to sit down to do speech therapy sessions.
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