Two years after surviving severe burns, Jay Leno is honoring the braveness of fellow burn survivors.
The Emmy Award winner will seem on the Sept. 7 KINO digital premiere of Braveness Rising, a documentary about eight burn survivors climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, with all proceeds from the occasion benefitting Valleywise Well being Basis.
Braveness Rising follows eight burn sufferers handled at Valleywise’s Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Middle from their excruciating highway to restoration to their epic seven-day-climb up the slopes of the tallest mountain in Africa. Collectively. they uncover the true, triumphant energy of the human spirit and provides again to the folks and place that saved their lives.
For Leno, the documentary’s topic holds a particular significance after he suffered “vital burns” to his face, palms and chest when a gasoline fireplace broke out at his Burbank storage in November 2022. The comic was launched from Grossman Burn Middle 10 days later, after present process two surgical procedures and hyperbaric oxygen remedy.
“On behalf of Crew Braveness Rising climbers and Valleywise Well being Basis, we’re so grateful to KINO and all of the supporters who will change the lives of burn and trauma survivors by watching this movie,” mentioned Pam Stelzer, former Valleywise Well being Basis Board Vice Chair. “These of us who witnessed the braveness and power of those eight true heroes alongside their medical workforce first-hand, have been eternally modified by this journey.”
Braveness Rising (KINO)
The digital screening, set for Sept. 7 at 6pm PT, can be adopted by a reside Q&A session with burn survivors Cody Byrns, John Pendleton, Aleema Ali, Tonya Meisenbach and J.R. Martinez. Tickets can be found at KINO.
Brit MacRae, CMO and co-founder of KINO, mentioned in a press release, “We’re deeply honored to host the world premiere of Braveness Rising on KINO. This documentary is a testomony to the resilience and power of the human spirit, capturing not only a bodily journey, however an emotional and transformative one. Given Jay Leno’s deep private connection to this trigger, we’re extremely grateful for his participation on this digital premiere. We will’t wait to carry this story to our viewers and supply them the possibility to have interaction with the unbelievable real-life survivors.”
