-
Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: BOSIFEST 2014
Listen to this post: BOSIFEST International Film Festival for and by persons with disabilities is the only one of its kind in Southeast Europe and is organized by the Hendi Center Koloseum in Serbia. This is the festival’s fifth year. They have a competitive and non-competitive part to the festival. So far BOSIFEST has screened…
-
From Brain Injury Awareness to Pride
Listen to this post: I wrote here recently that we need to move on from Awareness Months and have Appreciation Months (or years or lifetimes). Lots of times people describe my films as “raising awareness.” I would definitely say that is not my goal. Really, I want to show people with brain injury as complete humans, as…
-
Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Superfest International Disability Film Festival taking submissions now
Listen to this post: Back in June, I wrote on this blog about a really awesome sounding awards program called The Dissies. The idea was to come up with the worst ever representations and portrayals of disability (and disabled people) in the movies. Then, you’d diss them. I love the play on words. The awards…
-
Kris Haas online
Listen to this post: One of the great joys of this blog for me (and my readers, I know!) is sharing other people’s art. Whether it’s Guest Bloggers or people I write about, this is what’s most exciting. That’s why the whole documentary project got started in the first place: I want people to recognize…