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Sarasota News Leader February 8, 2013 Page 70 but something that's growing organically from television and film actor Chris McKenna the inside out." (House, Castle) and his efforts to help her cope emotionally with the inevitability of her Tatone said Blind Pass, which features recog- visual impairment. nizable outdoor locations on Siesta Key Public Beach and in Lakewood Ranch, among other Part of this adjustment involves White's charlocal places, could not have been made with- acter's learning how to use tools and technoloout the assistance and cooperation of community members and organizations. In fact, in certain cases, he noted, the collaboration has been integral to the plot of the movie. The film follows the life of Carrie James, a privileged, mercurial Sarasota heiress in her early 20s, played by White, who discovers she has an untreatable, congenital, ocular disease — which remains unnamed in the film. She learns it will render her blind over the course of about three months. Much of the plot focuses on her treatment by an acclaimed Sarasota psychologist named Dr. Michael Roselli, played by Los Angeles-based Blind Pass, which was screened for a private audience at Burns Court Cinema on Jan. 26, is the second film produced by Sarasota-based Midnight Pass Productions, following Beautiful Noise in 2010. The next project Midnight Pass will be working on is the musical Serenade, a sequel to Beautiful Noise.` (From left) Ed Lauter, Steve Tatone, Danielle White and James Sexton pose for a photo following the Blind Pass preview at Burns Court Cinema on Jan. 26.