Watch BREATHE at the 15th Annual Reelabilities Film Festival


Director/producer Zac Norrington made a 16-minute documentary featuring International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Julie Ridge.

BREATHE chronicles her non-stop two-time 21 hour 2 minute circumnavigation swim around Manhattan Island in 1983 and her lifetime navigation of a bipolar disorder.

The documentary film will be presented live on April 29th, May 2nd, and May 3rd, and streaming between April 27th and May 31st. For tickets and more information, visit ReelAbilities.org/newyork.

For more information, visit the BREATHE page.

Ridge will also bring her one-woman show BIPOLAR & THE ENGLISH CHANNEL to Sharon, Massachusetts on May 21 at 7:00 pm at Temple Israel, 125 Pond Street, Sharon, Massachusetts 02067. The performance is free. For more information, email jridgemha@aol.com.

Act One of BIPOLAR & THE ENGLISH CHANNEL tells the tale of a casual mile-a-day pool lap swimmer who became a 17 hour 55 minute English Channel swimmer within nine months in 1982 and her arduous zig-zag journey from England to France.

Act Two tells the less glamorous story of the author and former Broadway actor who wakes up manic and locked down on an unforgiving New York City psychiatric ward – and her journey back to sanity. The sum of this one-woman show is how that swim has paralleled her life with bipolar disorder.

Location: Huntington Beach, CA, USA

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