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September 06, 2008
New York City: SCREENING FOR DISABILITY – A Panel Discussion
Date: September 12, 3 PM
Location: New York University, King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, NYC
Admission: Free
This panel of filmmakers, programmers and activists will discuss their creative and curatorial work making and screening films about the lives of people with disabilities, and how their work is breaking new ground in the representation and circulation of these stories.
- Isaac Zablocki, Director of Film Program, The JCC in Manhattan, Realabilities Film Festival;
- Lawrence Carter-Long, Director of Advocacy and disThis film series, Disabilities Network of NYC,
- Tony Di Salvo, Director, Sprout Film Festival
- Alice Eliot, Award-winning filmmaker and activist and director of Welcome Change Productions,
- Simi Linton, award-winning writer and advocate, founder, Disability/Arts;
- Ilana Trachtman, award-winning filmmaker and activitst (Praying with Lior)
Co-presented with NYU Council for the Study of Disability, with the support of NYU Center for media, Culture and History
Posted by Nancy at September 6, 2008 07:00 PM