A Short-Film Salute to Disability Rights
Today is the last day to sign up for the Sacramento Public Library’s disability film festival, Superfest Sacramento.
From 5:30 to 7:30 this evening, festival-goers can watch a collection of nine short films selected by disability rights advocates and filmographers. The event is presented via Zoom and is free, although registration is required.
“Celebrate cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex and engaging lens,” Sacramento Public Library says on its website. “The festival is one of a few worldwide, completely accessible to film-goers of all kinds.”
The films, as summarized by on the SPL site, are:
Today we integrate some of the events of our nation into our disability routines. We’re nine days from an attempted coup at the Capital Building in D.C. as the pandemic rages and vaccine hope arises. Three callers living with disability contribute to the program.
Graphic by Gerd Altmann/Pixabay
One of our elder listeners with a severe disability, Mylene, speaks of her problem getting vaccinated. Ed, another listener, brings his experience in living with depression and working for candidates in Georgia. Ed talks about his disappointment that people allowed the victory in Georgia to be overshadowed by the doom and gloom of the Capital take-over.