Who Am I To Stop It

Category: Musings on documentary films

  • “Best Kept Secret”: Documentary film review by Jane Dunhamn

    Listen to this post: I learned in a documentary film class your film should focus on something specific. Also, that specific thing points to something universal. In other words, your story might be about one person, but it can still connect to just about anyone who watches. The idea is there are universal experiences of…

  • Microaggressions and brain injury disability

    Listen to this post: There are lots of stereotypes about people with brain injury: we’re all fixed as soon as we look good physically; we’ll never get better; we’re not smart anymore; we’re lazy about controlling our behavior. Oh, my favorite? If we don’t recover fully, it’s because we didn’t work hard enough. These are…

  • “The Way We Talk” documentary film about stuttering by Michael Turner

    Listen to this post: Listen, folks! We have more phenomenal art and storytelling from the inside. And it needs to get funded! Michael Turner has had his work screened on OPB and at the Oregon Heritage Conference. He won “Best Documentary” at The Teeny Tiny Film Festival in 2012. His new feature length film, “The…

  • Hope is Not A Plan Documentary

    Listen to this post: Yesterday, we had a lovely time at the ADA Moving Forward celebration in downtown Portland. We talked about how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go to achieve equity for disabled folks. But at least we have an ADA. Many countries have nothing like it. I just…

  • Guest Blogger Cynthia Lopez on not being the one to stop it

    Listen to this post read by Cynthia Lopez of Eleusis Films: “Have you ever had someone diss your art? You know that it’s actually an invitation to keep creating, right? After the premiere of my second movie, a null-budget, feature-length narrative fiction film, a person that I knew told me that I should not be…