SuperFest 2021: Disability Film Festival 16-18th October

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Hosted by the Paul Longmore Institute at SF State University, Superfest 2021 is again online Friday October 16th through Sunday October 18th 2021. Donations accepted but not required.

Check out the blurbs for all 22 films:

https://www.superfestfilm.com/2021-films

Four titles particularly intrigued me

Flight Paths -- Innovation in Craft Award / UK, 2020 (Interactive)

Part film, part video game, part history lesson, this whimsical animated choose-your-own adventure takes us into the world of ‘the Goze’, blind female travelling performers of medieval Japan. Produced by Extant, the UK’s leading company of visually impaired artists, Flight Path shares how access can be both innovative and fully integrated. Join this meditative reflection on travel, blindness and migration.

https://flightpaths.extant.org.uk

ill, actually -- 12 min, UK, 2019

This short documentary explores the challenges of being young and chronically ill in a carefully curated online culture. A real life "superhero", a YouTuber and a camgirl explain why they choose to share — or hide — important parts of who they are online.

See Through -- USA, 2021 (Dramatic Short, 9 min)

Jessie and Brian, a young Deaf couple, recently discovered they are about to become parents. Their neighborhood coffee shop thrums with everything left unsaid, while they unearth new ways to communicate.

Still a Slave -- Best Audio Description Award

UK, 2020 (Experimental Short, 5 min)

An artistic response to many of the comments posted on social media that undermine the Black Lives Matter Movement, this arresting film integrates The Rationale Method of audio description using sound effects and spoken word.

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