RespectAbility’s Entertainment Lab for disabled professionals is making a big change for its sixth year.
Whereas the program had run for six weeks every summer even when it pivoted from in-person to virtual with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, it is now expanding to five months. The change will allow the lab fellows more time in between sessions to process what they are learning, implement them in practice and work on their own projects before the next monthly lab workshop. As RespectAbility senior vp, entertainment and news media Lauren Appelbaum explains, the cadence of the lab’s part-time structure helps make it more accessible to people with certain types of disabilities, such as traumatic brain injuries.
“We first created this lab as a solution to the response that we would often receive from studios, producers and independent filmmakers who wanted to hire disabled writers, directors and others...
Whereas the program had run for six weeks every summer even when it pivoted from in-person to virtual with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, it is now expanding to five months. The change will allow the lab fellows more time in between sessions to process what they are learning, implement them in practice and work on their own projects before the next monthly lab workshop. As RespectAbility senior vp, entertainment and news media Lauren Appelbaum explains, the cadence of the lab’s part-time structure helps make it more accessible to people with certain types of disabilities, such as traumatic brain injuries.
“We first created this lab as a solution to the response that we would often receive from studios, producers and independent filmmakers who wanted to hire disabled writers, directors and others...
- 5/3/2024
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Let’s See How Fast this Baby Will Go’
Julietta Boscolo’s Let’s See How Fast this Baby Will Go is among seven films that will screen at the American Pavilion’s showcase of short films from emerging filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival.
Funded by Screen Australia’s Hot Shots program, the film stars Liv Hewson and Tara Morice and follows pregnant teenager Gloria. Despite being in labour she decides to buy a new car and in the process of giving birth she becomes a new person.
Based on a true story by Gloria Harrison and produced by Eva Di Blasio and executive produced by Robyn Kershaw, the 15-minute comedy/drama won the emerging filmmaker award at the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival and the Atom award for best short fiction film.
It was invited to Cannes Critics Week and has screened at numerous other festivals including the Flickerfest International Film Festival,...
Julietta Boscolo’s Let’s See How Fast this Baby Will Go is among seven films that will screen at the American Pavilion’s showcase of short films from emerging filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival.
Funded by Screen Australia’s Hot Shots program, the film stars Liv Hewson and Tara Morice and follows pregnant teenager Gloria. Despite being in labour she decides to buy a new car and in the process of giving birth she becomes a new person.
Based on a true story by Gloria Harrison and produced by Eva Di Blasio and executive produced by Robyn Kershaw, the 15-minute comedy/drama won the emerging filmmaker award at the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival and the Atom award for best short fiction film.
It was invited to Cannes Critics Week and has screened at numerous other festivals including the Flickerfest International Film Festival,...
- 4/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Now in its 31st year, the American Pavilion is moving with the times and bringing inclusion and representation to the forefront with its showcase of films by emerging filmmakers. This year, 29 films will make their debut on the Croisette. The global stories include 17 female directors, six documentaries and 11 Lgbtq narratives that are relevant to the times.
The new films will be featured in five showcases: Student Short Films, Student Documentaries, Emerging Filmmaker Short Films, Emerging Filmmaker Documentaries and Emerging Filmmaker Lgbtq Showcase Films. All are part of the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase series. Some of the films feature actors including M. Emmet Walsh, Wallace Langham, Michelle Davidson, among others.
“We have such great diversity amongst the films and international filmmakers, with more than half of this year’s films directed or co-directed by women,...
The new films will be featured in five showcases: Student Short Films, Student Documentaries, Emerging Filmmaker Short Films, Emerging Filmmaker Documentaries and Emerging Filmmaker Lgbtq Showcase Films. All are part of the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase series. Some of the films feature actors including M. Emmet Walsh, Wallace Langham, Michelle Davidson, among others.
“We have such great diversity amongst the films and international filmmakers, with more than half of this year’s films directed or co-directed by women,...
- 4/16/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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