March 24, Virtual Sprout Film Festival
Looking for a COVID-19 distraction? Please enjoy this free full-screen playlist of 10 popular short films, featuring people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, from the Sproutflix catalogue.
Jan, 27, Disability-Rights Movement Takes Spotlight at Sundance
NYTimes picked up Associated Press coverage and kept headline DISABILITY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT TAKE SPOTLIGHT AT SUNDANCE. This is a game changer!! Congrats Jim LeBrecht, Sara Bolder Nicole Newnham Malarkey, The Heumann Perspective with Judith Heumann, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Neil Jacobson, Corbett OToole, Ann Cupolo Freeman and the whole team at Higher Ground Productions. Lead On!
Sundance spotlight/tidal wave of advocacy includes authentic Deaf/disability leaders/storytellers - Lawrence Carter-Long, David Radcliff Nic Novicki, Jade Bryan, Danny Woodburn - thanks to The Ruderman Family Foundation for partnering with Sundance to insure accessibility.
As the nation ramps up to ADA30, CRIP CAMP is a cinematic milestone in the history of disability in media - the Disability Narrative Imperative at its very best -- check it out:
This is the end of the the era, because this means schools will stop teaching photography using film and all of the good stuff that comes with this medium.
Although, I too do more digital stuff now, it will never replace the feel that comes with older mediums. In the digital age of art the possibilities seems unless, but I do feel a disconnect from my work. When I paint, or draw I become part of the piece. The canvas and my body the absorb the some colors, my DNA is left on the canvas. If not from scraping my knuckles, it's my sweat and drooling. Really this is how they will identify a Keplinger, not from a signature, but from DNA.
Maybe to me digital art is as air sex, it's fun and safe, but does it have soulful connections?
Jan, 27, Disability-Rights Movement Takes Spotlight at Sundance
NYTimes picked up Associated Press coverage and kept headline DISABILITY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT TAKE SPOTLIGHT AT SUNDANCE. This is a game changer!! Congrats Jim LeBrecht, Sara Bolder Nicole Newnham Malarkey, The Heumann Perspective with Judith Heumann, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Neil Jacobson, Corbett OToole, Ann Cupolo Freeman and the whole team at Higher Ground Productions. Lead On!
Sundance spotlight/tidal wave of advocacy includes authentic Deaf/disability leaders/storytellers - Lawrence Carter-Long, David Radcliff Nic Novicki, Jade Bryan, Danny Woodburn - thanks to The Ruderman Family Foundation for partnering with Sundance to insure accessibility.
As the nation ramps up to ADA30, CRIP CAMP is a cinematic milestone in the history of disability in media - the Disability Narrative Imperative at its very best -- check it out:
Oct. 15, Sprout Film Festival returns to Cheverly, Maryland
A quick note to make you aware that the Sprout Film Festival, showcasing short films featuring people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, will take place in Cheverly, Maryland on Wednesday, October 16th.
The festival, presented by Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission will take place at the Publick Playhouse – 5445 Landover Road Cheverly, MD.
Check out the trailer of the film festival at: https://vimeo.com/363691997
There will be two showings:
First showing: 11:00am – 12:00pm / Second showing: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Admission is FREE.
Reserve tickets on-line at Arts.pgparks.com, for more information call Voice: 301-277-1710 or TTY: 301-699-2544.
April 30,
Barack & Michelle Obama’s new production company, Higher Ground, announced 7 projects for netflix incl #CripCamp, a feature docs about a ramshackle summer camp for #disabled teenagers many of whom later helped launch the #disability rights movement.
Short Film Competition View 2018 Finalists! Oct. 4, 2018 Counting
down to Cinema Touching Disability! Jennifer Bracy, CTD Film Fest
volunteer For the past 15 years, we’ve been honored to bring you
cross-disability cinema; thanks for making Cinema Touching Disability
the longest running and most successful disability film event in Texas!
It
seems when movies are made about people with disabilities, it is
becoming as confusing as the words as ableism and inspirational porn.
Even as recently when Jamie Foxx played Ray Charles, I do not remember
this conversation being raised of an abled body actor playing a person
with a disability. Maybe at that time it was still important that the
story was being told, rather than how it was being told?
This
conundrum goes back farther then the time of William Shakespeare, when
men played the rolls of women. When I go see a movie, I think to myself
this is an actor trying to play a person with a disability and the whole
time I am think what the real person is like.
Someone could
say, so why did you refuse to use an ACC device? Would it have been
enough to tell my story, or did I want people to see the person. Now
everyone gets to tell their “story” with tweets and posts, but does that
really let people get to know the person be hide the keyboard?
When I watch the show Speechless, I do ponder if any of the writers have
a disability themselves, or if they have a group of gimp consultants
that has been in the situations that are on the show? I often think, if
King Gimp came out now would it have the same acceptance that it did?
