Disabled Filmmakers’ Projects To Keep On Your Radar
Pre-Production
Stand Up Eight (co-dir. Koura Linda)
Dramedy Short (USA)
A 40-something children's party entertainer is determined to chase her dreams, while struggling with ever-increasing anxiety and self-doubt.
Seeking Support:
Hair/Makeup Artist
Funding for post-production sound
Study and Struggle (dir. Jules Rosskam)
Creative Documentary Feature (USA)
Study and Struggle explores the entangled histories of land, learning, and resistance within public higher education, in the United States.
Seeking Support:
Executive Producers
Fellowships and Labs
Impact partners
Funding
Production
No Handicap (dir. Derek Dabkoski)
Observational Docuseries (USA)
Through the lives of disabled gamers and the innovators designing adaptive technology, NO HANDICAP reveals how accessible gaming is redefining who gets to play — and proving that inclusive design benefits everyone.
Seeking Support:
Executive Producers
Distribution partners
Subjects
The Myth of Monsters (dir. Beatrice Leong)
Documentary Feature (Malaysia)
In a world that did not understand me, my mother allowed me to be put away out of fear, and I imagined her dead for the next 15 years. I fought hard with the world after learning the word Autism too late to explain myself, only to return with my camera to her, confronting the monsters we became to each other and asking how we begin again.
Seeking Support:
Lead Producer
Funding for Production
Dramaturgy Support/Mentor
Partners
Crowdfunding Strategy
Post-Production
Comedians With Disabilities Act: Going Beyond the Punchlines (dir. Gina Chin-Davis)
Comedy Special Documentary Feature (USA)
As diversity and accessibility initiatives are rolled back across the country, the Comedians with Disabilities Act embarks on its most ambitious tour yet, using comedy, friendship, and life on the road to build a movement — and claim the space they were never fully given.
Seeking Support:
Strategic partners and impact partners
Collabs with disability-focused orgs
Finishing funds for editing, color, sound, etc.
Broadcasters, distributors, programmers, and EPs with shared values
Untitled Herts Inclusive Theatre Documentary (dir. Sarah Leigh)
Documentary Short (UK)
As Herts Inclusive Theatre, celebrate their 25th anniversary, participants and staff reflect on the importance of inclusive and community spaces.
Seeking Support:
Impact partners
PR/Publicity
Festival Circuit & Impact Campaign
A House on the Hill (dir. Matthew S. Alaniz)
Narrative Thriller/Comedy Short (USA)
Matt’s concerns about the inaccessibility of the house reserved for his bachelor party manifest as it becomes impossible for him to maneuver. When strange calls begin to question his stay, his anxiety turns into terror, and a brutal force challenges his very existence.
Seeking Support:
Distribution
Marketing
Publicity
Impact partnerships
An Unquiet Mind (prod. Kovid Gupta)
Documentary Feature (USA)
An intimate portrait documentary that follows two people living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, revealing the dark realities of a disorder often misunderstood and kept secret.
Seeking Support:
Distribution partnerships as impact campaign launches to increase visibility
Awards and recognitions
Funding for impact campaign
Who Moves America (dir. Yael Bridge)
Documentary Feature (USA)
In an era of deepening inequality, UPS Teamsters stand on the brink of a historic strike. As the deadline looms, Who Moves America shadows UPS workers in New York, Kentucky, California and across the country as they navigate the challenges of building solidarity with their 340,000 co-workers.
Seeking Support:
Impact support
Impact partners
Distribution & Broadcast
Exhausted Existence: An EDS Story (dir. Jennifer Kain)
Feature Documentary (USA)
A group of four people who search for diagnosis, acceptance, and freedom to be believed with a condition that is the most misdiagnosed in the 21st century.
Seeking Support:
Purchase and watch the film on goodstuff-story.coStudy and Struggle