Art, health, family and the will to cope: Debra Magid is an artist living with Parkinson’s Disease.
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Love & Loss
A delicate exploration of two women’s journeys as they seek to find companionship. Nicole Evans was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Karen Crespo became disabled after contracting Bacterial Meningitis. This documentary offers a unique perspective on the nature of romance.
Living Art
The story of a Mara Clawson, an artist living with Familial Dysautonomia, whose art became her stunning and profound means of communication and livelihood.
Little Rebel
Isatou Jallow, a woman from The Gambia living in Seattle, advocates for women, asylees, and people with disabilities. Dimensions of Isatou’s epic journey—from her origins and physical hardships to scholarship, becoming a lawyer and leader, demonstrating an ultimate resiliency and altruism— are deeply human, harrowing, transcendent, tenacious…and part of the American immigrant story.
Jmaxx and the Universal Language
Jarell is teenager with autism who has learned to use hip-hop dance as a means to communicate his true self to the world.
CODA
A young dancer struggles with her bi-cultural identity when she meets a confident young Deaf man who stirs up conflicted feelings about growing up hearing in a Deaf family.
Barrier Free: The Art of Adam Cohoon
Adam Cohoon is a photographer, filmmaker, artist and accessibility advocate who lives in downtown Toronto. In this short film, Cohoon offers a unique perspective on being an artist who uses a wheelchair. Catch a glimpse of how he makes his art on the street and at home, and shares his work with the world.
Act Natural
The internal experience of a young man with ASD as he navigates a conversation.
Refuge in the Rockies
This short documentary tells the story of young Colombian refugee and Para-alpine ski champ Anderson Losada. An obscure law prevented him from Canadian citizenship and cost him his Paralympic dreams.
Same Nightmare
Spencer MacKay is a Canadian filmmaker who has dwarfism and uses a power wheelchair. Same Nightmare shows the attitudinal barriers faced by Colby, a high school student (played by Tyler Hall) yearning to be included.
