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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Cinema Touching Disability
Listen to this post: Howdy, filmmakers. Check out the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities and the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival! Submissions are now open for the 2013 competition. I submitted my film just this morning! This festival started in 2004. The idea was “to create a film festival to counter negative stereotypes about people with…
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Guest Blogger: William L. Alton on Inspiration
Listen to this post read by William L. Alton: “I have only one thing to say. I am not an inspiration. When people tell me I’m an inspiration and example to other disabled writers, my skin crawls, and my head fills up with white noise. Nothing I do is to be an inspiration. They have…
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Guest Blogger: Annie Salness
Listen to this post spoken by Annie Salness: Painter Annie Salness is bringing together two worlds in the way she paints. Two years ago, she had a stroke and lost the use of her dominant right hand. Calling on her experience coaching sports, she now gives herself daily drawing drills and exercises to gain more…
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Guest Blogger Tyler Presnell: “Respect the Journey”
Listen to this post: Tyler is back! And he’s got a new book filled with some of his most mind-opening rhymes called “Respect the Journey.” Tyler does a lot of public speaking about disrespectful driving and about his own traumatic brain injury in a massive car wreck. He also expresses himself through rhyme. Goodness knows…
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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals ReelAbilities: Houston Disabilities Film Festival 2013
Listen to this post: ReelAbilities film festival started in New York in 2007. Their films are by and about people with disabilities that explore, discuss and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience. Films are shown in various locations throughout the city. And it has moved beyond the borders of New York City! This year…