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A Life to Live - Zycie Przed Toba
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Documentary, 20min
Poland, 2003
Director: Maciej Adamek
Producer: Radek Stys
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The film is about blind children being prepared for an independent life by
teachers at a Center for Blind People. We can observe the children during their everyday
activities, when they learn how to button up, tie their shoelaces and recognize sounds
and objects. They also speak about their expectations for the future. The things that are
obvious and easy for people who can see, for them, are often very complicated.
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Awards: 12 awards at festivals: Best Short Documentary at Palm Springs, San Francisco, Buster Film Fest,
Blue Sea Film Fest and Audience Award at Washington, Stockholm Film Festival.
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A Child Unlike any Other
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Documentary, 11min
Canada, 2005
Director: Anna Barczewska
Producer: Claudette Jaiko
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Jan Maka was happy, energetic - a child like any other. Overnight, his family's life was
turned upside down when it was discovered that he was "different": Jan has autism.
What is it like to live with a child affected by this neurological disorder? Anna
Barczewska's poignant short film puts a human face on the little-known condition and,
through one family's story, depicts the struggle of all parents of children with autism.
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Happy Birthday Thalidomide - Feliz Aniversário Talidomida
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Documentary, 48min
Brazil e United Kingdom, 2004
Director: Kim Flitcroft
Producer: Kim Flitcroft
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Happy Birthday Thalidomide is 1st generation Thalidomide victim Mat Fraser's
personal history of the original drug scandal, before he sets off to Brazil,
where he meets many original, then 2nd, and even 3rd generation Thalidomide
victims there. He investigates its use and meets women who are still taking it.
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In the Middle of the Way - No meio do caminho
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Documentary, 26min
Brazil, 2002
Director: André Costa e Silvio Cordeiro
Producer: Danilo Concílio
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The documentary presents the routine of four locomotion-impaired people,
discussing the issue of accessibility in São Paulo City.
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Awards: 2º lugar júri técnico no VI VIDEVÍDEO -
Festival Nacional de Cinema e Vídeo da UFRJ; Melhor Roteiro
no Festival Cearense de Vídeos Universitários NÓIA
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Mama Wahunzi
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Documentary, 57min
Thailand and USA, 2002
Director: Lawan Jirasuradej
Producer: Lawan Jirasuradej
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In 1997, in both Uganda and Kenia, one hundred thousand people were without
wheelchairs, and women had access to only one percent of those available.
Three women decided to take their fate into their own hands. They learned how
to built wheelchairs - thus ensuring their own mobility.
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Awards: Audience Awards at African American Women
in Cinema Film Festival and African Studies Association
Conference, USA 2003; Merit Award at Superfest, USA 2004;
Cultural Grant, Asian-Europe Foundation to attend Torino
International Women Film Festival - Turin, Italy 2003.
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About Love - O Lyubvi
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Documentary, 26min
Russia, 2003
Director: Tofik Shakhverdiev
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In a school for disabled children in Russia, some creative and
funny kids talk about their lives, and specially about love.
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Awards: Grand Prix - "Stalker", Special Prize and
Prize of Viewers Appreciation - "Cinema Without Barriers",
First Prize - "Message to Man", St. Petersburg, First Prize
Festival of Russian Cinema in France, First Prize Festival - "Flaertiana", Perm.
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Dear Perla - Liebe Perla
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Documentary, 53min
Israel, 1999
Director: Shahar Rozen
Producer: Edna Kowarsky e Eden Productions
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This is the story of a friendship between two very short women.
Perla, an actress, is the last living member of a Jewish family of dwarfs that survived
Dr. Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz.
Hannelore was born in postwar Germany.
Hannelore sets out on a quest, which could well fulfill one of Perla´s greatest dreams.
She is searching for a lost Nazi film of Perla's family, standing naked on stage,
before a group of high-ranking SS officers.
As she hunts for the film in German and Polish archives, Hannelore corresponds with
Perla to report on her progress.
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Awards: Prize for best script - Haifa Film Festival;
Israel Magnolia prize for best documentary - Shanghai Film
Festival; Best film award - Turk Festival in Turkey.
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The Collector of Bedford Street
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Documentary, 34min
USA, 2002
Director: Alice Elliott
Producer: Alice Elliott
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Short documentary about Larry Selman,
Alice's neighbour, a community activist
and a fundraiser who has developmental
disabilities. When Larry's primary
caregiver becomes unable to care for
him, his New-Yorkers neighbours rally
together to protect his lifestyle as
a man living independently with
developmental disabilities.
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Awards: Indicado ao Oscar da Academia®; Jewish Image Award - Documentary Film 2003; Tash Image Award -
Documentary Film 2003; Council on Foundations - Henry Hampton Awards 2002; Heartland Festival - Crystal Heart Award
2002; Ojai Film Festival - Theme Award 2002; The Black Maria Festival - Directors Choice Awards 2003 - Third Prize 2003;
Freddie Award - Finalist in Special People 2003; Aspen Short Film Festival - Best Documentary 2002 - Audience Award 2002
- The Horizon Award; USA Festival - The Family Award 2002; Florida Film Festival - Audience Award, Favorite Short Film
2002, Florida Filmmaker Award 2002; Silver Street Film and Video Festival - Best Documentary 2002; Big Bear Lake Festival -
Jury Prize for Best Documentary.
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The Life of Me
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Documentary, 51min
Canada, 2004
Director: Manfred Becker
Producer: Susan Baker
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What does mental illness look like?
Rachel Manning and George Vukojevic
were aspiring actors in New York City,
until their careers were cut short by
mental illness. George was diagnosed
with schizophrenia and Rachel, with
bipolar disorder. For the next 10 years,
keeping their lives together became a
severe challenge. But then an opportunity
arose to take to the stage again through
Toronto's Workman Theatre Project.
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Thalassa - Thalassa
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Documentary, 11min
Brazil, 2005
Director: Júlia Porciúncula e Liane dos Santos
Producer: Marília Nogueira
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The history of Thalassa, a nine years old girl
who was born with a brain damage.
Through the efforts of her parents, she is
able to live an active and happy life.
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Without Apology
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Documentary, 73min
USA, 2004
Director: Susan Hamovitch
Producer: Susan Hamovitch
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Alan, director Susan Hamovitch´s brother,
was born in 1950 with a brain so severely
damaged he would never develop the
ability to speak. Alan became a secret
suddenly. In 1958, he was sent to live in
Letchworth Village, a state-run institution
for people with mental retardation.
And after that day, almost all mention
of him within the home virtually ceased.
The shroud of secrecy that surrounded
Alan's disappearance has prompted the
filmmaker to probe delicately but
persistently beneath the surface of the
family's silence: to find answers to why
and how Alan's placement occurred, and
why so much was left unsaid.
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Awards: BAC Festival - Best Feature Documentary;
Hearts and Minds Film Festival - 2nd place Audience Award,
Feature Documentary.
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The Egg
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Fiction, 9min
United Kingdom, 2002
Director: Richard Wilson
Producer: Ewan Marshall
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The perfect egg served in a greasy transport café to a disabled man at
4.00am has life-altering repercussions for all present.
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Wheeling Dealing
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Fiction, 11min
United Kingdom, 2004
Director: James Mellor, Tinch Minter, Charlotte Tarrant
Producer: Margaret Milner, Tinch Minter
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Annie is tricked out of reading her news at 3 o'clock slot and
in place The Zero Option News presents a surreal look at what the
news could potentially be in 2010.
The people in the news are not just making the news but they are also
breaking the mould.
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Spit it Out
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Documentary, 55min
USA, 2004
Director: Jonathan Skurnik
Co-Produtores: Elisa DeCarlo, Kathy Leichter
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Spit It Out is a funny and poignant
portrait of Jeff Shames' successful efforts
to come to terms with his stutter and his
family's legacy of denial. Jeff's father is
intolerant of and rageful toward his son's
imperfections, while his mother is unable
to acknowledge her own childhood stutter.
As a teenager Jeff turns to alcohol and
drugs to mask his shame, and eventually
marries an alcoholic who interacts with the
outside world for him. After his wife gets
sober, Jeff discovers the stuttering self-help
community and embarks on a healing
journey of sobriety, self-acceptance
and forgiveness.
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Awards: Won an Achievement Award at Superfest,
and an Honorable Men Best Film by a Disabled Filmmaker at Canada´s Picture This Festival.
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The Kids Are All Right
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Documentary, 30min
USA, 2005
Director: Kerry Richardson
Producer: Kerry Richardson
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The Kids Are All Right is a half-hour documentary about
a renegade Jerry's Kid named Mike Ervin. A Muscular
Dystrophy Association (MDA) poster child in the 1960s,
today Mike is an outspoken disability rights activist who
challenges the MDA's use of pity to raise money in its
annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon.
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Forbidden Wedding - Casamento Proibido
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Documentary, 56min
Brazil e USA, 2002
Director: Flavia Fontes
Producer: Flavia Fontes
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Forbidden Wedding is the story of Hedir, a
paraplegic man in Brazil, who was forbidden
to marry his love because the Catholic
Church suspected that he was sexually
impotent. According to Vatican Law,
a person who cannot copulate cannot get
married in the Church. This film documents
Hedir's struggle to get married and the
impact his story had on his small town and
Brazil. An intimate account of their personal
story and an exploration of disability rights,
sexuality, and faith.
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Awards: Someone to Watch Award
- CineWomen 2004; Audience Award For Best Documentary -
Projections Internacional Film Festival; Honorable Mention -
Philadelphia Internacional Film Festival; Award of Excellence -
Brasa Film Festival.
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Dreaming Awake
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Vídeo Experimental, 5min
USA, 2003
Director: John R. Killacky
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Experimental short video which is a prayer of reconciliation juxtaposing dancers with
disabilities with the narrator seated in his wheelchair.
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Awards: Projections - Best Performance Piece;
Superfest - Achievement Award; Picture This Festival -
Best Performance Short.
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The House
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Documentary, 8min
United Kingdom, 2003
Director: Vivienne Jones
Producer: Maggie Ellis
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"The House" tells a story of a group of women, with
mental disabilities, as they explore their own lives and
memories through drawings and the animations the
director has created from these artworks.
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Awards: Winner of Best Short Film, Audience Award, High Falls Film
Festival, Rochester, New York, USA, 2003; Winner of A.S.I.F.A. Award for
European Animation, L'Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain,
2003; Winner of Grand Prize for Best Short Film, Siena Short Film Festival, Italy,
2003; Winner of The Silver Dragon Award, Best Animated Film, Cracow Film
Festival, 2004; Honourable Mention for Documentary on a theme of Disability,
Picture This Film Festival, Calgary, Canada, 2004.
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We Are PHAMALy
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Documentary, 19min
USA, 2003
Director: Daniel Junge
Producer: Henry Ansbacher
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This is no ordinary opening night, nor an ordinary troupe of actors. Each member of this
cast faces extraordinary challenges simply getting to the theater, moving around stage,
even surviving another year to act in another play. Meet PHAMALy, the Physically
Handicapped Amateur Musical Actor's League. "We Are PHAMALy" is an intimate portrait
of three cast members, illuminating the remarkable strength and courage they display with
their fellow players in mounting this show. We follow their progress from auditions to
opening night, from moments of doubt and despair to their emotional highs.
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Born Freak
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Documentary, 49min
United Kingdom, 2001
Director: Paul Sapin
Producer: Paul Sapin
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Born Freak is British disabled actor Mat Fraser's journey into the history
of disabled performers, Freak Shows.
We learn about their legendary disabled entertainers, before Mat
performs at the last surviving Freak Show in America. In Edinburgh, with
a reactive one-man show, Mat's quest concludes in a dramatic finale.
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Awards: Finalist, Best Documentary
Britspotting Film Festival, Berlin 2003; Winner Best of
Festival, Picture This Film Festival, Canada 2002;
Winner Best of Festival, SuperFest XXIII, San
Francisco 2003; Winner Best of Festival International
Disability Film Festival, London 2003.
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A Touch of Color
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Documentary, 13min
United Kingdom, 2004
Director: Catalin Brylla
Producer: Catalin Brylla
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Due to his visual impairment, British painter
Terry Jackson had to radically restructure his
life, as well as his painting technique.
His artworks reflect the change of life Terry
has gone through, and show his constant
struggle to keep painting as a form of
expressing what is inside of him.
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Flying People
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Documentary, 24min
United Kingdom, 2004
Director: Tom Collinson
Producer: Tom Collinson
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A world-champion kite flyer attempts to teach his blind boss to fly kites.
A documentary film about two people and their passion for flight.
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Awards: Honorable Mention - Picture This Canada.
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When Love is Blind
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Documentary, 43min
Canada, 2004
Director: Sylvie Peitier
Producer: Sylvie Peitier
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When Love is Blind examines courtship and love from the point of view of blind women
and men who are searching for love. When Love is Blind reveals their feelings and
thoughts about the mysteries of seduction, the foundations of romantic and physical love,
and the importance of beauty. They share their experiences with dating, courtship and
marriage. Traditionally, we think love and attraction as caused by certain visual stimuli. We
judge others (and are judged in return) on appearance. In meeting the characters in When
Love is Blind we confront our own prejudices about the need for visual attraction to exist
before physical attraction can exist at all.
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North Face
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Fiction, 9min
United Kingdom, 2002
Director: Marc Jobst
Producer: Ewan Marshall
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The neighbor of a young disabled woman is forced to face his feelings over a recent
romantic entanglement with her when locked out of his flat.
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Urban Myth
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Fiction, 9min
United Kingdom, 2002
Director: Ewan Marshall
Producer: Ewan Marshall
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Mat Fraser and Saffron Burrows star as two could-have-been-lovers who bump into
each other again after 16 years, as a story of missed opportunity, personal anxiety and
lust unfolds.
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One Night Sit
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Documentary, 11min
USA, 2004
Director: Carmelo Gonzalez e Diana Naftal
Producer: Carmelo Gonzalez e Diana Naftal
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A look at the difficulties some people with disabilities have had looking for love in the
gay (male) community. The video poses the important question: In a community that
over-emphasizes physical beauty, where do people with disabilities fit in? Or what
becomes of them?
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Awards: Picture This Film Festival (Honorable
Mention); Alliance for Community Media Northeast Regional
Video Festival (won Award).
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Untold Desires
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Documentary, 56min
Australia, 1994
Director: Sarah Barton
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People with disabilities struggle to be recognized as sexual beings, free to explore
their sexuality and lead sexually active lives.
This film explores first-hand stories of people with disabilities who speak candidly
about their experiences in their search for sexually fulfilled lives.
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Awards: Winner, Best Television Documentary,
AFI Awards 1995; Winner, Most Outstanding Documentary,
Logie Awards 1996; Winner, Best Documentary, International
Human Rights Awards, 1995; Nominated, Best Social Issues
Documentary, ATOM Awards 1995; Certificate of Creative
Excellence, US International Film & Television Festival 1995;
Silver Medal, Prix Leonardo, Italy 1995; Gold Awards for
Best Documentary, Australian Cinematographers Society
Awards 1995.
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Like a Butterfly - Jak Motyl
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Documentary, 29min
Poland, 2004
Director: Ewa Pieta
Producer: Miroslaw Grubek
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Przemek is paralyzed since birth. He also can't speak but his mind is
sound. The Boy tried to communicate with environment but nobody understood him until
he was 16 years old, when he was introduced to the BLISS language. Right now he writes
poetry and wins prizes.
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Awards: NIEPOKALANOW (Poland) The 2nd prize & SIGNIS prize; MALESCORTO (Italy) Special mention; ETNOFILM -
(Cadca/Slovakia) 3rd prize; EKOTOPFILM (Bratislava/Slovakia) - Prize of the International Jury; Oczy Otwarte - (Warsaw /Poland) -
1st prize & special prize of the Jury; Film Festival "Breaking Down Barriers" (Moscow) - 1st prize/short documentary; Siena (Italy)-
1st prize/documentary; Cztowiek w zagrozeniu (Lodz/Poland) - Prize of Ava Studio; SMOFI (Kracow /Poland) - Gold Smofi & special
mention; Picture this (Calgary /Canada) - Prize for documentary; 4th International Documentary Film Festival (Stockholm/Sweden) -
Bronze Diploma; The Hugo Awards (Chicago/USA) - Silver Plaque;
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The Ability Trek
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Documentary, 55min
United Kingdom, 1998
Director: Fil Baker e Jacob Baldwin
Producer: Martin Guinness
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Although born with cerebral palsy, Jacob Baldwin has never believed in the term
disabled. So he set out on "The AbilityTrek" - four and a half years around
Australia at eight kilometers per hour in an electric wheelchair. This film celebrates that
journey in an uplifting and records the adventures, loves and dramas of the trek.
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School for One and All
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Documentary, 26min
Russia, 2005
Director: Andrey Stankevich
Producer: Andrey Stankevich
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A documentary about the problem of access to education for disabled children in Russia and the
interaction between disabled and non-disabled children in an inclusive school.
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The Epidemic - Epidemien
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Documentary, 51min
Denmark, 2001
Director: Niels Frandsen
Producer: Niels Frandsen
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In the 1950s a polio epidemic raged. Thousands of people
caught the disease in a few months, most of them children. The film director Niels
Frandsen was one year old when his hips and legs were affected. In this poetic film
essay he returns to the fateful period that he cannot remember, but will never forget.
His parents, his sister and archive footage help him to furnish words and images for
a personal account that is also a historical record.
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Awards: GRAND PRIX at Odense International
Filmfestival, Denmark 2001; Awarded by PTU 2001; Prize winner
at Badajoz Int. Filmfestival, Spain 2002; First Prize and Jury
Special Award at Cordoba Int. Filmfestival, Argentina 2003.
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Outside/Inside
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Documentary, 6min
USA, 2002
Director: Nick Pentzell
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Outer appearance is not an accurate expression of self. A man, disabled by
autism and muteness, shares his inner depth. Experimenting with camera
interaction, storyboarding, and editing, Nick Pentzell's creative vision was
facilitated by Gwen Waltz, enabling him to develop a highly original way of
introducing the viewer to the frustrations of muteness.
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Awards: 2005 Picture This Film Festival - Documentary
Award to a Filmmaker with a Disability; 2004 Superfest -
Achievement Award and Spirit Award.
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From Grief to Struggle - Do Luto à Luta
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Documentary, 76min
Brazil, 2004
Director: Evaldo Mocarzel
Producer: Circuito Espaço de Cinema e Casa Azul Produções
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This feature film focuses on disabilities and potentialities of people with Down´s
Syndrome, showing that solutions for their inclusion in society are easier than we
usually imagine. It presents in a creative way many cases of success and inclusion
in the job market.
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Awards: Grande vencedor do festival Cine PE 2005
nas categorias Melhor Filme, Melhor Documentary, Direção,
Fotografia, Montagem, Prêmio da Crítica/Imprensa
Especializada e Prêmio Especial do Júri Popular.
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