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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: 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: 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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Personal stories, not education
Listen to this post: Cynthia, my filmmaker, was talking with some fans of documentary film. When she told one this new project will be focused on artists with brain injuries, here was the response she got: “Oh! So it’s going to be an educational film?” Well… not really. She explained it’ll be a documentary with…
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Have compassion
Listen to this post: I had a great conversation with friends today. We watched and talked about my film, “Friending with Brain Injury!”. It was a great discussion. One person asked what I want folks without brain injuries to take away from my films. Great question. I wish I could have thought of an answer…