I’d like to see a large image here, either an image from a classic movie or an excerpt from a PDF fhat you may want to encourage folks to download?
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To come: a public domain image from a classic movie
“People with disabilities make up a large percentage of the viewing audience, are the largest minority group in America, and are wildly under-represented.”
—Hollywood Inclusion Toolkit, RespectAbility
Narrative Text here supporting a graphic Ariel selects.
Through our impact campaign Monstrous Me aims to both discuss this gaping hole in representation and address it directly.
To reach a variety of audiences, a curated exhibit designed for museums, art spaces and community centers, will extend the life of Monstrous Me. The exhibit will spotlight the monstrous nature of art and access.
Workshops with filmmakers and film exhibitors will also be an integral part of our impact work. It’s essential that storytellers and curators understand how to make their own work accessible to the disability community. A curriculum and educational resources will also be developed for general audiences.
We’ll partner with film organizations, advocacy groups and mission-aligned organizations in an effort to bring about a massive paradigm shift - away from what’s expedient for the few, to what’s accessible for all. Existing partners include FWD-Doc, RespectAbility, Portland Art Museum, Spokane Library, and Centreville, VA Regional Library.
Statement, to come, about how important accessibility is.
Many of our key team members are part of the disabled, d/Deaf, hard of hearing, neurodiverse and English language learner audiences, and their creative and technical input is invaluable.
Producer and Accessibility Coordinator Kiah Amara, (IndieVisible Films) has ensured that each aspects of production is friendly to everyone on the team. Kiah, along with other field experts including the Social Audio Description Collective, is also overseeing the integrated creative captioning in all versions of the film, and a separate creative audio description track, including haptic suits to appeal to a wider audience within the disability community.