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Defiant Lives: The Rise Of The Disability Rights Movement (1hr 24min)
Defiant Lives is the previously untold story of how the disability rights movement in the United States, Britain and Australia literally changed the world we live in.
The film features interviews with more than 30 of the leading activists of the past 40 years, plus more than 600 pieces of archival footage and photographs sourced from around the globe.
Code of the Freaks (1hr 8min)
Code of the Freaks presents a radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in film. Using hundreds of clips spanning over 100 years of moviemaking, and a cast of disabled artists, scholars and activists, it’s a scorching critique of some of Hollywood’s most beloved characters.
This revelatory documentary investigates the power of movie imagery to shape the beliefs and behaviors of the general public toward disabled people, and of disabled people toward themselves.
Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder, chronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who are fighting to end police brutality against people with disabilities.
The work of many disabled activists and artists/activists are explored around this issue, especially involving disabled people of color.
A New Kind of Listening: Disability Rights and the Power of Inclusive Arts (58min)
The story of a one-of-a-kind theater group and a young man who could not speak, yet found the voice he had been looking for all his life.
The film follows the collaborative work of the Community Inclusive Theater Group as its director inspires cast members, some with disabilities and unable to speak, to be poets, actors, and dancers.