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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…
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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…
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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Superfest Dissies
Listen to this post: If you haven’t recognized by now that my sense of humor is often pretty dark, wry, self-deprecating, and politically motivated, I’ll just let you know now that it is. I will critique anything you put in front of me and have fun doing it. At this point, critiquing things around disability…
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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: 4th Annual Bosifest
Listen to this post: This June will be the 4th annual Bosifest, the only festival of its kind in Southeast Europe. They have shown more than 140 films from all over the world at the Belgrade Youth Centre. The festival has a competition for films by and about disabled folks as well as workshops on a variety…
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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: ReelAbillities New York
Listen to this post: Well, I missed the boat on announcing ReelAbilities Disability Film Festival 5 in New York. The good news is you can find out about the festival in thirteen cities in the US at their website, www.reelabilities.org, including the other dates I have missed, like the New Jersey festival. So how did…