Easterseals & Gold Pictures to Change the Way We View Disability in Hollywood
21/03/2018
As part of its ongoing mission to Change the Way We View Disability, Easterseals Southern California (ESSC) has partnered with Gold Pictures to raise awareness within the entertainment industry to be more inclusive and create opportunities in front of and behind the camera for people with disabilities.
Gold Pictures is the production shingle of Jenni Gold, one of only two members of the Directors Guild of America who identifies as having a disability and director of the award-winning documentary CinemAbility, which - with levity and insight - traces the history of disability portrayals from the silent era to today and the impact these portrayals have had on the public. Called Eye opening and An arresting look at disability by the Los Angeles Times, CinemAbility features interviews with Ben Affleck, Michael Apted, Paris Barkley, Geena Davis, Peter Farrelly, Jamie Foxx, Vince Gilligan, Taylor Hackford, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Marlee Matlin, Jane Seymour, Gary Siniseand more.
CinemAbility and participate in other promotional opportunities. Gold Pictures will showcase ESSC's logo in all marketing efforts, highlight the nonprofit on its social media platforms and build relationships on behalf of ESSC with Hollywood leaders and celebrity influencers to further efforts to raise awareness within the entertainment industry.
Said Mark Whitley, president & CEO of ESSC, Jenni's passion for storytelling and entertaining an audience is clearly evident in her work and achievements. We welcome the opportunity to work with her to effect change and promote inclusion.
Commented Gold, who has muscular dystrophy, has used a wheelchair since the age of seven and jokes that since her director's chair goes 12-miles-an-hour, she is the first to arrive on set, I'm thrilled to have my film CinemAbilitypartner with Easterseals, which shares my mission of bringing inclusion to Hollywood and the world. I am excited about these new opportunities and what the future has in store.
Shares Affleck, one of the many prominent actors who appear in the film, There's virtually no people with disabilities present in the fabric of the entertainment world. And that wallpaper is really our collective social wallpaper. It's how we see ourselves. Adds Macy, I think we want to get to this point in the world where it's what you do that counts, it's what you can accomplish that counts and we're not so concerned with how you look or how you get there.
ESSC first aligned with Gold when she served as a judge for the organization's Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. Now in its fifth year, registration is open for the 2018competition to be held April 13-15. For moreinformation or to sign up: www.DisabilityFilmChallenge.com
One-in-five Americans is living with a disability, making it today's largest minority population, yet far too often their important and varied stories go untold. Per the GLAAD report Where We Are on TV, 1.7% of TV roles feature a character with a disability and of those roles, more than 95% of the characters are portrayed by actors without a disability (Ruderman Family Foundation). Of the top 900 films since 2007, just 2.7% of characters were portrayed as having a disability, according to the USC Annenberg report, Inequality in 900 Popular Films. The Easterseals Disability Film Challenge addresses this underrepresentation by giving filmmakers - with and without disabilities - the platform to collaborate, tell unique stories that showcase disability in its many forms and support Easterseals' goal to change the way disability is viewed. CinemAbility, which has enjoyed a successful film festival run, takes a detailed look at the evolution of disability portrayals in entertainment by going behind the scenes - interviewing celebrities, filmmakers, studio executives and film historians - and by utilizing vivid clips from Hollywood's most beloved motion pictures and television programs to focus attention on the powerful impact that entertainment and the media can have on society.
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About the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
During the Challenge, registered filmmakers are given a span of 55 hours over the designated weekend to write and produce short films (three-to-five minutes) that Help Change the Way We View Disability. Submitted films are judged in four award categories - Best Film, Best Filmmaker, Best Actor and Best Awareness Campaign - by a noted and diverse group of entertainment industry talent. Finalists will be announced and screened at the Bentonville Film Festival(May 1-6), which champions inclusion in all form of media; will be invited to an exclusive roundtable discussion with agents at United Talent Agency;and will receive a one-year subscription to Variety Magazine. Winners, who will be announced at a red-carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles-based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9-18), an Academy Award-qualifying competition; $1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; Dell computers; a full, one-year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud-the entire collection of 20+ creative desktop and mobile apps including Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Photoshop CC; and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line. Since the Challenge launched in 2013, aspiring filmmakers from around the world have created more than 150 short films - 35 submitted last year - which have been viewed online and at festivals. Winners have included Jamie Brewer, who won Best Actor in 2017 for Whitney's Wedding, has been acclaimed for her role on American Horror Storyand was the first model with Down Syndrome to walk the
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