20-23 October Superfest Online Disability Film Festival

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Since 1970, Superfest Disability Film Festival has celebrated cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, unabashed and engaging lens. They’re resuming in-person screenings and continuing the online options that began in 2020.

October 20th-23rd USA pacific time zone https://time.is/pt

They’ve made online watching easier:

12:01am PT on Thursday October 20 until 11:59pm PT on Sunday October 23! Once you begin a screening, you will have 96 additional hours to finish so just make sure to sign in by Sunday night.

Sliding scale passes $0 - $50. They also offer "watch party" options.

https://www.superfestfilm.com/2022-virtual

Out of the twenty films on the schedule:
https://www.superfestfilm.com/2022-films
I’m really excited for these eight — descriptions copied from that link

Superfest Films I’m Excited About

Bebe A.I.

Best of Festival (Short) UK, 2021 (Dramatic Short, 12 min)

A young couple with Down's syndrome must overcome prejudice and danger, to try and save the AI baby they want to adopt.

Between The Lines

Australia, 2021 (Dramatic Short, 10 min)

By autistic filmmaker Blaise Borrer, “Between The Lines” offers an impressionistic glimpse into the lives and relationship of a mother and her twelve-year-old autistic son as the newly added pressures of high school begin to strain their already limited communication with each other.

Changer: A Hand Telling

Best of Festival (Feature) USA, 2021 (Feature, 60 min)

"Changer: A Handtelling" is an innovative Deaf-centric and Native-centric filmed performance with Deaf Native storytellers performing the Coast Salish myth of Changer in Native and artistic sign language, following mythic characters into a future transformed by tribes exercising sovereign treaty rights.

Divine Decadence, Darling

Denmark, 2020 (Experimental Short, 14 min)

An alternative version of the traditional cabaret’s staging of politically edgy and playfully erotic entertainment. “Divine Decadence, Darling” invites the audience through surreal, staged scenarios in an empty nightclub with five disabled performers.

It's Personal

UK, 2021 (Documentary Short, 31 min)

This hybrid-documentary/reality TV challenge explores Kyla and Lou’s relationship as they navigate from friendship to Lou becoming Kyla’s 24-hour ‘key worker.’ The two of them embark on a week's journey to see if Lou can reach a level of competency as Kyla’s personal assistant without compromising Kyla’s autonomy. The film responds to the embedded impossibility of social distancing for the people who need it most - because Kyla’s requirements, intimacy, and proximity are integral to her survival.

Pas de Deux

UK, 2021 (Experimental Short, 6 min)

Follow Brogues and Sparkly Toes on their adventures of love, loss, dancing, and lots of mud! A heartbreaking LGBTQ+ tale told entirely through feet!

Seeing Diane Arbus

Jury's Choice Award USA, 2021 (Dramatic Short, 19 min)

A movie theater projectionist with dwarfism has a fateful, frightening reunion with the famously voyeuristic photographer, Diane Arbus.

The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms

Best of Festival (Documentary) USA, 2021 (Documentary Short, 10 min)

A magical-realist window into a man's experience of chronic illness, mixing paintings with live-action documentary footage to explore his inner world and relationship with his partner.

Anyone up for a watch party?