Check out the lovely interview I had with Poppi Fella Pellegrino on her Queerator podcast. Poppi is a filmmaker and a great podcast host. She’s also the daughter of my former theatre collaborator Sabina Fella – we had lots to talk about. You can listen on Spotify or Youtube – the Youtube version has captions.
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A Wider Angle: the evolution and future of disability film festivals – Disability Arts International
Kate Lovell interviewed me for this article on Deaf and disability film festivals. Lots of food for thought.
Source: A Wider Angle: the evolution and future of disability film festivals – Disability Arts International
Awake at FilmFest Dresden
Wonderful week screening Awake at FilmFest Dresden and presenting a workshop in Accessible Filmmaking. Introducing an inclusive process that started with access auditing, nine participating filmmakers were challenged to create a short film complete with access features in just three days.
Day one looked at the representation of D/deaf and disabled people in contemporary cinema, covering both bad examples (from the pitiful to the heroic) to best practice where disability is just one aspect of the characters’ identities. Through a series of writing exercises, we came up with a scenario for our visiting “talent”: British actress Margo Cargill (Awake, Birds of a Feather, White Man Van) and Maxime D. Pomerleau (Prends Moi, Fubar Age of Computer) a fantastic Québecoise actress that we met at Look & Roll in Basel. Margo is blind and Maxime uses a wheelchair, so this was an opportunity to script disabled characters, and look at how the filmmaking process could be adapted to make it accessible for both of them.
