2008 Catalog
Descriptions of SUPERFEST XXVIII (2008) Entries
We give enormous thanks to the current funders:California Arts Council
Gersten Family Charitable Trust
Hi Fi Club
Gabriel Ledger, M.D.
National Arts and Disability Center at U.C.L.A.
True North Foundation
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(Synopses were written by the filmmakers)
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9/11 Fear in Silence: The Forgotten Underdogs (OC)Country: USA
Producer: Jade
Director: Jade
Contact: Jade
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 646-932-6346
Website: http://www.911fearinsilence.com
Sale Price: $150.00 for institutions $39.95 for home use
Rental Price: $175.00 for film festivals
Length: 88 min
Synopsis: 9/11 FEAR IN SILENCE: THE FORGOTTEN UNDERDOGS is a compelling documentary about Deaf and Hard of Hearing people who were the FIRST citizens to become shut out from outside communication and 'left in the dark,' and the LAST to receive access to critical information, or be delivered from danger on September 11, 2001. Abilities to the Xtreme: Pursuing the Dreams
Country: USA
Producer: Brian K Dery
Director: Brian K Dery
Contact: Brian K Dery
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-586-9216
Website: http://www.tripleknotproductions.org
Sale Price: $99.00
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 27:40 min
Synopsis: Justin Beauchesne had suffered amputations on both arms due to a rare disease known as meningococcemia. Being enrolled in the Shriners system, Justin had learned how to adapt to his new condition and to make him grow to be the person he is today. Justin is an avid skateboarder that enters in the Extremity Games and stands out in front of other skaters as well as spectators. At Ratzit Laasot Sezet (You Wanted to Make a Film?) (OC)
Country: Israel
Producer: Gali Weintraub
Director: Gali Weintraub
Contact: Gali Weintraub
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 972-3-64-11140
Website: n/a
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Length: 25min
Synopsis: I was born disabled. I decided to make films about disabled people making their dreams come true. I've started making a film about Zehava, a polio victim and Oren, a folk dancer and their performance. The tension resulted in their barring me from filming the premiere. Two years passed. Beautiful Blond Eyes (OC)
Country: Germany
Producer: Nicolai Schley
Director: Anna Reinking & Simon Bruckner
Contact: Anna Reinking
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +4930 61076720
Website: http://www.elementarfilm.de
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Length: 91min
Synopsis: "Birth" is the topic a group of handicapped actors chose to develop a play about. The movie accompanies their life on a farm called "terra est vita" and work in theatre for eight months until they bring their play on stage at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From the protagonists' peculiar nature evolve inspiring poetic moments, but also obstacles to solve -- not only on stage. Handicapped or normal, those categories begin to resolve. That is why Beautiful Blond Eyes is a movie about love, identity, about growing up, communication beyond speech and the great challenge to act. Beautiful Son
Country: USA
Producer: Charlotte Lasgarde, Julianne King, Don King
Director: Julianne King & Don King
Contact: Don King - Bright Child Films
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 808-262-2552
Website: http://www.beautifulson.com
Sale Price: $25.00
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Length: 63min
Synopsis: Beautiful Son is the personal story of a family's effort to help their son with autism. Through their use of behavioral therapy and biomedical interventions we are introduced to the complex and controversial world of autism. Beginnings First Phase (AD, CC, OC)
Country: United Kingdom
Producer:Jane Barnes/ Trevor Morgan
Director: Jane Barnes
Contact: Yakkety-Yak/ Innov8 Me
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0) 1438 219177
Website: http://www.yakkety-yakmultimedia.com
Sale Price: £19.99 + Post / $39.99 + Post USA / Canada
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 20min
Synopsis: Beginnings – First Phase provides a overview of disabled and disadvantaged people being trained in the use of film, acting and creativity, while exploring new opportunities for themselves in their communities and making choices regarding their accessibility to employment, education and independent living, while staying safe, making friends and having fun. Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy (CC)
Best of Festival Award
Country: USA
Producer: Alice Elliott & Simone Pero
Director: Alice Elliott
Contact: New Day Films
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 888-367-9154
Website: http://www.newday.com
Sale Price: $30 home video $105 small non profits $205 large organizations & universities
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 40min
Synopsis: Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy is a rare look at a crisis in an unusual relationship between two people with disabilities. The story moves beyond disability and activism, to acceptance of a profound, symbiotic friendship. The Boy Inside (CC)
Country: USA
Producer: Marianne Kaplan
Director: Marianne Kaplan
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
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Length: 7min
Synopsis: The harrowing story of the filmaker's son, Adam, a 12 year old with Asperger Syndrome, during a tumultuous year in the life of their family. AS makes Adam's life in seventh grade a minefield, where he finds himself isolated and bullied. Changing Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art (CC)
Country: USA
Producer: Daniel Labbato
Director: Daniel Labbato
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $229.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 57min
Synopsis: People with brain and spinal chord injuries or stroke participate in a studio program that doesn't see art just as a form of therapy, but as a means for participants to redefine who they are, and begin to see themselves not as people with disabilities but as artists. The Collector of Bedford Street (AD, CC)
Merit Award
Country: USA
Producer: Alice Elliott
Director: Alice Elliott
Contact: New Day Films
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 888-367-9154
Website: http://www.newday.com
Sale Price: $30 home/$105 small nonprofit/$205 large institutions
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 34min
Synopsis: The Collector of Bedford Street takes an intimate look at Larry Selman, the director's 60 year old neighbor who has intellectual disabilities. A tale of personal persistence overcoming the odds, the film sheds light on how a community builds tolerance and understanding. The Deaf Warrior (OC)
Country: USA
Producer: Tristan Thunderbolt
Director: Rodger Rosenberg
Contact: Broken Ears Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone:
Website: http://www.brokenearsproductions.com
http://www.tristanthunderbolt.com
Sale Price: DVD will be for sale in 2009
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Length: 29min
Synopsis: Broken Ears Productions has presented films with people who are deaf or have disabilities. We have and continue to take chances, risks, and push the envelope with our films displaying talented people with disabilities. Broken Ears Productions launched it's first project with an eye opening film "The Deaf Warrior." The 29 minute film is filled with dark gothic imageries, dancing with death, violence and revenge." In one second their whole world changed. True love never dies without a fight." The film also has cute blooper clips at the end. Rated R. Dis(aster)abilities: Special Needs for Special Times (OC)
Country: USA
Producer: Diane Wilkins Productions, Terry Galloway, Donna Marie Nudd & Mickee Faust Films
Director: Diane Wilkins, Terry Galloway and Donna Marie Nudd
Contact: Mickee Faust Club Films/ Diane Wilkins Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 850-893-1441
Website: http://www.mickeefaust.com
http://www.dianewilkinsproductions.com
Sale Price: $30.00
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 6:30min
Synopsis: A parody of a corporate training video on Emergency Evacuation Procedures: Working together, you and your special needs employees can turn an emergency into a tragedy in three easy steps. Starring Sam Atwood, Terry Galloway, Deneyce Roberts, Carrie Sandahl, Donna Marrie Nudd and Lori Violette. DMI Beyond Sports
Country: USA
Producer: Paul Del Pizzo
Director: Paul Del Pizzo
Contact: Red Soul Entertainment Group
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 850-893-1441
Website: http://www.redsoulgroup.com
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Length: 43:31min
Synopsis: DMI Beyond Sports takes an inside look at the world of wheelchair bodybuilding. Four time national champion Victor Konovalov sets his sights on an unprecedented fifth title at the age of 45. Follow Victor on his journey and go behind the scenes of the National Championships set in Palm Beach Florida. Doin' it Sex, Disability and Videotape (OC)
Country: USA
Producer: Beyondmedia Education/ The Empowered FeFes
Director: Salome Chasnoff
Contact: Beyondmedia Education
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 773-973-2280
Website: http://www.beyondmedia.org
Sale Price: $35.00 individuals and $150.00 institutions
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 35min
Synopsis: "Doin' It" is a daring and humorous investigation into the uncharted intersection between disability and sexuality. The Empowered Fe Fes (slang for "female") educate themselves from many angles by talking with activists, educators and scholars, challenging the notion that people with disabilities are not fully sexual human beings. Dragon People (OC)
Spirit of Superfest Award and Excellence Award
Country: United Kingdom
Producer: Rosa Rogers
Director: Rosa Rogers
Contact: Resource Base
Email: [email protected]
Phone:
Website: http://www.resource-base.co.uk
Sale Price: Contact the filmmaker
Rental Price: Contact the filmmaker
Length: 24min
Synopsis: Deaf photographer Louise Gibson travels through China to meet some of China's 20 million 'dragon people' and find out more about their lives. Edges of Perception
Merit Award
Country: USA
Producer: Eric Kutner
Director: Eric Kutner
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $169.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 14min
Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Jessica Perk thinks she might be a photographer, a gymnast, a soccer player - or maybe president of the United States. But her future is complicated by Stargardt's disease, an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes loss of sharpness of vision, decreased color vision, blind spots, and legal blindness. Emmanuel's Gift (CC)
Country: USA
Producer: Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern
Director: Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern
Contact: Laura Vaccaro, Marketing and Publicity Coordinator, First Look Studios
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 424-202-5000
Website: http://www.firstlookstudios.com
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Length: 80min
Synopsis: Narrated by Oprah Winfrey, Emmanuel's Gift tells the tale of a young, disabled man from Ghana, West Africa, who rode a bicycle across Ghana --about 600 kilometers -- on one leg to eradicate his country's negative perception of the disabled. Filming Kelly
Country: USA
Producer: John Renteria
Director: Tom Renteria
Contact: Tom Renteria
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 562-230-4039
Website: http://www.filmingkelly.com
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Length: 1:23hr
Synopsis: Although born with cerbral palsy, Kelly doesn't let that define him as a person. During this journey he'll share insight into his family and friends, his passion for sports, his faith in God and most important of all, his love of life. Front Wards, Back Wards (CC)
Country: USA
Producer: William C. Rogers
Director: William C. Rogers
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $249.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 57min
Synopsis: They were called idiots, simpletons and fools, and for 160 years Fernald State School - America's first institution for people who were then labeled mentally retarded - was where they would stay. Through the recollections of staff, residents and families, this program profiles the evolution of attituides toward people with developmental disabilities. Going For the Gold: A Tale of Three Kids
Country: USA
Producer: Brian K Dery
Director: Brian K Dery
Contact: Triple Knot Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-586-9216
Website: http://www.tripleknotproductions.org
Sale Price: $99.00
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Length: 23min
Synopsis: A documentary that tells the true spirited story of three brave athletes. Tatyana McFadden, age 17; Hannah McFadden, age 10; and Juan Chavarria, age 16, are patients of the Shriner's Hospital for Children. These three young courageous children do not allow their disabilities to slow them down or even worse give up hope. The Shriners assists them to live their life to the fullest. In the Shoes of Christopher
Country: USA
Producer:Paule Sneddon, James Callner, Kim Schwartz, Dennis Glover
Director: James Callner
Contact: Awareness Films and AFOCD
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 831-684-9684
Website: http://www.afocd.org
Sale Price: $29.95
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 27min
Synopsis: A middle school child is bullied because he has OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. A teacher develops an amazing challenge for the bully that will change his awareness of intolerance to understanding. Directed by James Callner who has lived with OCD since 1982. Including Samuel (CC)
Excellence Award
Country: USA
Producer: Dan Habib
Director: Dan Habib
Contact: Dan Habib
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 603-848-5301
Website: http://www.includingsamuel.com
Sale Price: $180.00 educational and $35.00 consumer
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 58min
Synopsis: Photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about the inclusion of children with disabilities before he had his son Samuel eight years ago. Now he thinks about inclusion everyday. Habib documented his family's efforts to include Samuel in every facet of their lives, a journey that transforms each of them. InnerSight: A Meditation for Deaf People (AD, CC, OC)
Country: USA
Producer: Pam Cavazos
Director: Pam Cavazos
Contact: Pam Cavazos
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 510-375-2004
Website: http://www.deafmeditation.com
Sale Price: $25.00
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 120min
Synopsis: Finally, a mediation DVD/video designed with deaf people in mind! This affirmative approach to meditation shows you how to manage your energy through a visual process of self discovery. Presented by Pam Cavazos in ASL with captions and voice-over, so it's accessible to everyone. Visit our website: www.deafmediation.com. Iron Genrikh (OC)
Achievement Award
Country: Russia
Producer: Alexey Pogrelnoy
Director: Alexey Pogrelnoy
Contact: Denise Roza, Perspektiva
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 495-245-68-79
Website: http://perspektiva-inva.ru
Sale Price: Contact the filmmaker
Rental Price: Contact the filmmaker
Length: 51:41min
Synopsis: A story of life of a disabled person. Genrikh shares his thoughts and demonstrates an example of a challenging and active life. Just Ask
Country: USA
Producer: Scott Wilson
Director: Scott Wilson
Contact: Scott Wilson
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 573-443-4356
Website:
Sale Price: $150.00
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 28:54min
Synopsis: "Just Ask" highlights eight people with disabilities as they discuss the importance of communication to gain an understanding of their individual needs, preferences and desires. Developed in conjunction with occupational therapy students, "Just Ask" is an insightful documentary that educates the public through experiences of persons with disabilities. The Key of G (AD, OC)
Country: USA
Producer: Robert Arnold and Lindsay Sablosky
Director: Robert Arnold
Contact: Lateral Films
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 415-520-6146
Website: http://www.lateralfilms.com
Sale Price: $24.95 home use/$225 universities/$85 agencies and community groups
Rental Price: $75.00
Length: 59min
Synopsis: An award-winning documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. Gannet, a charismatic 22-year-old with physical and developmental disabilities, leaves his mother's home to share an apartment with a group of artists and musicians. Together they create a uniquely successful model of supported living, and a compelling alternative to institutionalized care. Little People, Big World
Country: USA
Producer: Gay Rosenthal Productions
Director:
Contact: Jeffrey L Weaver
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 343-468-3387
Website:
Sale Price: n/a
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 30min
Synopsis: After Matt Roloff makes a Little People outreach speech, his organization CoDA (Coalition for Dwarf Advocacy) takes on it’s first mission - assisting in a dwarf adoption. Matt joins his buddy, actor Marty Klebba from the "Pirates of the Ciribbean" film, to meet Chance, a disabled 5-year-old Little Person, on the day he goes home with his new adoptive parents. Living with Lew
Country: USA
Producer: Chris Weitz
Director: Adam Bardach
Contact: Bardach Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 310-293-9771
Website: http://www.livingwithlew.com
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Length: 89min
Synopsis: A young Hollywood comedy writer/director uses his humor and unfailing optimism to cope with a diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). His friends, family and colleagues rally around him as he attempts to make his first feature film. Making Connections: Living with MS for 20 years
Country: USA
Producer: Leslie Kussmann
Director: Leslie Kussmann
Contact: Leslie Kussmann
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 508-650-1616
Website: http://www.aquariusproductions.com
Sale Price: $150
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Length: 23min
Synopsis: This film explores the challenges of living with a chronic disease, MS, for over 20 years. Anyone who lives with MS, is a family member or caregiver knows the many difficult times that one faces. Fatigue, disability, anger and fustration are just a few of the challenges that are encountered. Man With No Arms Can Do Anything
Country: USA
Producer: James Goldman
Director: James Goldman
Contact: James Goldman
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 618-835-4438
Website: http://www.jimgoldmaninc.com
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Length: 30min or less
Synopsis: I filmed myself doing some of the things I can do to let people see that a disability won't stop me from doing what I want to do. I edit the show, I am an amateur at this. I hope you like it. Jim. MasterPiece (Part I) (OC)
Country: Greece
Producer: Stefanos Mondelos and Valli Argiropoulou
Director: Stefanos Mondelos
Contact: Stefanos Mondelos
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +306-972-252-273
Website:
Sale Price: Please contact
Rental Price: Please contact
Length: 25min
Synopsis: Stelios Pagios is the "MasterPiece" not only because of the interest he attracts through his zest for life, although he is quadriplegic, but also for the opportunity he offers us to re-examine the common acceptable rules or conceptions of aesthetic value. Given that disability appears not to abide by these rules, Stelios challenges us to discover new aesthetic concepts where disability and beauty are not mutually excluded. The Miracle (OC)
Achievement Award
Country:USA
Producer: Jeffrey Jon Smith, James Aull, Jerry Prochazka
Director: Jeffrey Jon Smith
Contact: Jeffrey Jon Smith
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 312-504-4174
Website: http://www.themiraclemovie.com
Sale Price: n/a at this time
Rental Price: n/a at this time
Length: 29 min
Synopsis: In confession to her priest, Tekki Lomnicki, a little person, reveals how she dishonored her mother on a trip to Lourdes twenty-seven years before. If she's to win a chance at redemption, Tekki will need all her courage, humor and imagination to face the truth about what happened at Lourdes. Mister Spazzman
Country: USA
Producer: Suzanne Girot & Renato Frota
Director: Suzanne Girot
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $219.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 47min
Synopsis: “My music saved my life,” says Robert Goldsborough, “For two years after the accident I wanted to die.” At the age of 40, Robert fell out of a tree and broke his neck, becoming a quadriplegic. A professional musician and political activist before the accident, today he expresses his frustrations and passions through the music he writes using a voice-activated computer. Poignant, funny, sometimes downright raunchy, Robert’s songs form the central metaphor for his life. Faith and his church; sex and lovers; relationships with friends, family and caretakers are all woven into the musical tapestry he creates. Mobility
Country: USA
Producer: Killer Banshee (Kriss De Jong & Eliot K Daughtry)
Director: Killer Banshee (Kriss De Jong & Eliot K Daughtry)
Contact: Killer Banshee (Kriss De Jong & Eliot K Daughtry)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 510-444-2649
Website: http://www.killerbanshee.com
Sale Price: $25.00
Rental Price: $25.00 (contact to get quote for live performance)
Length: 27:21min
Synopsis: Mobility - Confabulation on the Experiential Nature of Modern Medicine is about our experience living with chronic, episodic problems inside the crushing labyrinth of medical 'care'. This DVD is a recording of dual screen performance in 6 sections: Waiting Room, Search, Wheelchair Crash Test, Diagnostic, Pill Count, Interminable Middle. Mr. Blue Sky
Country: USA
Producer: Karuna Eberl
Director: Sarah Gurfield
Contact: Tom Lee
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 516-319-2013
Website: http://www.mrblueskymovie.com
Sale Price: $20.00
Rental Price:
Length: 86min
Synopsis: An unconventional love triangle between 3 childhood buddies; 2 girls, one born with down syndrome, and one boy, who all grew up fighting who they are inside, how they are perceived by society and who they ultimately strive to become as individuals through the obstacles that are inherently present. Multiple (CC)
Achievement Award
Country: USA
Producer: Lucinda Broadbent & Alison Peebles
Director: Lucinda Broadbent
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $229.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 29min
Synopsis: For six years, actor and director Alison Peebles has been keeping a secret: she has multiple sclerosis. Now working on a TV series, she can no longer hide her symptoms. She's afraid this revelation may destroy her career and she'll also have to kiss goodbye her sexy, high-heeled shoes. Perfection (CC, OC)
Country: USA
Producer: Vanessa Grey
Director: Vanessa Grey
Contact: Vanessa Grey
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 505-879-0289
Website: http://www.myspace.com/vgfilm
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Length: 8min
Synopsis: Perfection is a short, coming of age film, about an American Indian girl's dreams of the perfect trip to the ocean with her deaf father. The dream is crushed by her own unwillingness to accept his disability, which in turn has implications about her ability to accept her heritage. Phoenix Dance (CC)
Merit Award
Country: USA
Producer: Karina Epperline
Director: Karina Epperline
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $229.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 16:22 min
Synopsis: Renowned dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer. Following the creation of a "pas de deux" choreographed by Alonzo King, "Phoenix Dance" takes us on a journey of transformation and healing, challenging our expectations of what it means to be "disabled." PSA: Class Photo, School Love
Outstanding PSAs/Promos Award
Country: Russia
Producer: Guezella Nikolaishvili
Director: Gosha Molotsov(Love); Dmitry Pishchulin(Photo)
Contact: Denise Roza
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 495-245-68-79, 495-363-08-39
Website: http://perspektiva-inva.ru
Sale Price: Contact the filmmaker
Rental Price:
Length: 30+30+15+15sec
Synopsis: These two public service announcements were developed in conjunction with Perspectiva, a Russian non-governmental organization(NGO) of disabled persons. They were used as part of the campaign "Children Should Study Together" to promote inclusive education and were shown on national and local TV stations throughout Russia. Pushin' Forward (CC)
Merit Award
Country: USA
Producer: Izumi Tanaka
Director: Izumi Tanaka
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $229.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 39min
Synopsis: Growing up poor and Latino, James Lily was a gang member until, at fifteen, he was shot in the back and paralyzed. Today, he shares his story with inner city kids, and tells them about one thing that helped him move on - the world's longest wheelchair race! Right to Risk (AD, CC)
Country: USA
Producer: Kathleen Jo Ryan
Director: John Ryan
Contact: John Ryan
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 360-678-2222
Website: http://www.righttorisk.org
Sale Price: $20.00 HM/$80.00 ED
Rental Price:
Length: 57min
Synopsis: "Right to Risk" is an adventure film that follows eight individuals - living with disabilities - on a 15 day, 225-mile whitewater rafting journey down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. "Right to Risk" is about every individual's rights to choose what they are willing to do and risk in pursuit of their dreams. Ruth (CC)
Country: USA
Producer: Michael Frantzis, London Film School
Director: Michael Frantzis
Contact: Nicole Johnson, Fanlight Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-937-4113
Website: http://www.fanlight.com
Sale Price: $229.00
Rental Price: $60.00
Length: 31min
Synopsis: Ruth endured the disabling physical and mental symptoms of Parkinson's disease for more than twelve years, until a procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) enabled her to switch off many of her. This film presents a unique opportunity to view the impact of medical technology in action. The Second Step
Country: Canada
Producer: Gary Caganoff and Warren Macdonald
Director: Gary Caganoff
Contact: Warren Macdonald
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 250-226-7936
Website: http://www.warren-macdonald.com
Sale Price: $29.95
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 26min
Synopsis: An inspirational documentary on double leg amputee Warren Macdonald's epic 28-day journey to Federation Peak, in southwest Tasmania. In the heart of South West Tasmania's magnificent World Heritage wilderness stands Federation Peak, one of Australia's most challenging mountains. Against all the odds, Warren Macdonald spends 28 days hiking to and climbing the first peak, becoming the first double above-knee amputee ever to do so. The Seeing Hand (AD)
Country: Canada
Producer: Sheila Nykwist
Director: Sheila Nykwist
Contact: Sheila Nykwist
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 403-380-7566
Website:
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Length: 12:39min
Synopsis: Elio Riggillo is deaf and legally blind. Usher Syndrome is slowly taking his sight. Through pinole vision, he continues to work, be a father of three, and lead an active life. He now faces one of his biggest challenges - a law suit against the Ontario government, in a case of discrimination and neglect. Sins Invalid: Trailer
Outstanding PSAs/Promos Award
Country: USA
Producer: Patricia Berne
Director: Jason Toussaint
Contact: Patricia Berne
Email:
Phone:
Website: http://www.thedancingtree.org
Sale Price: n/a
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 3min
Synopsis: Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility is an annual live theatre event about the intersection of disability and sexuality. This trailer was originally created for promotional purposes and captured the essence of the 2006 performance. Now it is used to bring Sins Invalid to a wider audience. Slide
Merit Award
Country: USA
Producer: Sharon Katz
Director: Sharon Katz
Contact: Sharon Katz
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 613-235-7197
Website:
Sale Price: Varies - contact filmmaker
Rental Price: Varies - contact filmmaker
Length: 3:52min
Synopsis: Through a simple act of child's play, a young boy confronts both his parent's overwhelming protection and his own very real fears. Speed of Life
Country: USA
Producer: Jeff Lester
Director: Jeff Lester
Contact: Kimberly Hayes
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 702-262-6200
Website: http://www.bigpicturestudios.com
Sale Price: n/a
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 9:30min
Synopsis: Competitive snowboarder Amy Purdy's inspirational journey is the centerpiece of this compelling and uplifting film. It is a story of a young woman's passion, spirit and healing along her road back into extreme sports after a near-death experience. State of the Art Communication for PALS
Country: Denmark
Producer: www.Synvision.dk - Video and Web Design
Director: Ditte Guldbrand
Contact: Birger Bergmann Jeppesen
Email: [email protected]
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Length: 30min
Synopsis: On a world basis, more than half a million people suffer from ALS. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrigs Disease, is a neuro muscular disease, which rapidly causes paralysis of all muscles in the body. One of the consequences of this is that persons with ALS quickly lose the ability to speak. As a result, efficient communication aid becomes paramount. This film is dedicated to demonstrating some of the communication aid technologies currently available on the market -- and to showing why these technologies are invaluable to people with ALS as well as to their family and friends. Strong Love
Country: USA
Producer: Bonnie Burt
Director: Bonnie Burt
Contact: Bonnie Burt
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 510-548-1745
Website: http://www.bonnieburt.com
Sale Price: Home Video $25; contact distributor for non-profit and institutional prices
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Length: 56min
Synopsis: Strong Love, by Bonnie Burt, is the story of world-class weight lifter Jon Shapiro and his childhood sweetheart Holly James, both of whom were born with Down syndrome. This documentary follows the couple over the course of three years, starting with their decision to get married. Their challenges, their triumphs, and their complex, sometimes surprising relationships with family and friends are at the heart of this inspiring film. The Teachings of Jon (CC)
Country: USA
Producer: Jennifer Owensby and John Sanza
Director: Jennifer Owensby
Contact: Jennifer Owensby, Waking Heart Films
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 919-309-7464
Website: http://www.teachingsofjon.com
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Length: 57min
Synopsis: This award winning, soul touching and funny documentary about Jon, a 40 year old man with down syndrome, ponders the serious questions of how we value each other and what is truly important in life. Although Jon has an IQ of 20 and doesn't talk, he has an important purpose...not necessarily to learn, but to teach. Tiresias (AD, CC)
Pamela K. Walker Award
Country: USA
Producer: Olimpias Disability Culture Productions
Director: Petra Kuppers & Sadie Wilcox
Contact: Sadie Wilcox
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 413-549-5854
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~petra
Sale Price: $30.00
Rental Price: $10.00
Length: 7:30min
Synopsis: Tiresias is an Olimpias Disability Culture Production. The work is a collaboration between poets, artists and dancers. Tiresias addresses disability and erotics, touch and senses, the poetry of word, image and movement. To Have Courage
Country: USA
Producer: Brian K Dery
Director: Brian K Dery
Contact: Triple Knot Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800-586-9216
Website: http://www.tripleknotproductions.org
Sale Price: $99.00
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Length: 24:15min
Synopsis: Suffering from a spinal injury, Jen French felt life was not over. Jen, who loved recreation and the outdoors, was back on the same ski slope a year later. Finding it to be joyful, but not fufilling, Jen then researched the Cleveland FES Center, soon becoming the first woman to have the FES System implanted in her, allowing her to stand and walk. Welcome Stop (OC)
Country: United Kingdom
Producer: Caglar Kimyoncu
Director: Michael Achtman
Contact: Filmpro
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44(0)7970 065 393
Website: http://www.filmpro.net
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Length: 20min
Synopsis: Welcome Stop is a 20 minute road movie that explores issues of relationship and independence among three disabled characters whose journeys towards self-realization cross boundaries of race, sexual orientation and disability. What Are You...Deaf? (CC)
Country: USA
Producer: CJ Jones (film)/ Deaf West Theatre (Stage)
Director: Cassandra Jones (film)/ Stephen Rothman (stage)
Contact: CJ Jones
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 877-467-4877 ext 54540
Website: http://www.cjjoneslive.com
Sale Price: $29.95
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 80min
Synopsis: Combining voice American Sign Language (ASL), Jones paints colorful, riveting pictures of his life experiences, revealing what it was like to grow up in a tough St. Louis neighborhood in the shadow of his deaf golden gloves champion boxer dad and on through the challenges faced during his quest to make it as a comedian and an actor in Hollywood. What's Bugging Seth (CC, OC)
Country: USA
Producer: Eli Steele
Director: Eli Steele
Contact: Man of Steele Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 310-463-2085
Website: http://www.whatsbuggingseth.com
Sale Price: $19.99
Rental Price: n/a
Length: 95min
Synopsis: When Seth Singer, a young deaf man, is asked his name, one hears "Death Dinger." A minor flaw in a man who is determined to let nothing, not even his handicap, stop him from finding love and success in an often unforgiving world. What's Eating Dimitri? (OC)
Country: Greece
Producer: Valerie Kontakos
Director: Valerie Kontakos & Yiannis Misurides
Contact: Doc3 Productions
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 30-697-337-4266
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Length: 57:06min
Synopsis: Dimitri has attended a special needs vocational high school for the last 6 years. Now he is turning 18 and is being told he can no longer attend. He wants to work but no one will hire him. We observe Dimitri and his parents as they attempt to find a place for him in the Greek educational system that might provide him with vocational training so that he can become self-sufficient in society. What's Under Your Hat?
Producer: Julio Medem, Lola Barrera & Iñaki Peñafiel
Director: Lola Barrera & Iñaki Peñafiel
Contact: Alica Produce SL
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 011-34-91-701-0152
Website: http://www.juliomedem.org
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Length: 75min
Synopsis: What's Under Your Hat? is a feature length documentary that traces the life and work of an internationally renowned artist with down syndrome Judy Scott, and fellow artists at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California. Along with an intimate look at the life of Judy Scott, the film profiles the creative process of artists such as Donald Mitchell, Daniel Miller and Carl Hendrickson. This film sheds light on what it takes to be an Outsider Artist and how art can transform communication and healing.
The World of Dangerous People (OC)
Country: Russia
Producer: Anna Maslenikova
Director: Tofik Shakhverdiev
Contact: NGO “Perspektiva”
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 655-245-68-79, 655-363-08-39
Website: http://perspektiva-inva.ru
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Length: 23:43min
Synopsis: The film is about people with down syndrome. It shows different aspects of life and might be interesting to all kinds of audiences.