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ARTS - FILM, TELEVISION & RADIO
INDIVIDUALS ORGANISATIONS SOCIAL MEDIA
| Artist, Portraitist, Writer, Arts Psychotherapist, Model, TV presenter! In 2003 Sophie was paralysed in a car accident aged 18. Initially she planned to study Law but following a dramatic change in perspective she decided to follow her heart and completed a Foundation Course in Fine Art whilst adapting to life in a wheelchair.She now works as a Portraitist and Artist from her studio in Brighton, exhibiting her award winning work regularly.
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| Making space on Australian screens for people with disability
Access All Areas Film Festival is an accessible program of quality short films that reflect the lived experience of people with disability. Access All Areas Junior is an accessible program of international short films made by children. Some of the films in Access All Areas Junior reflect the lived experience of children with disability. |
| The UK BBC disability video's archival... |
| Disability Matters with Joyce Bender is one of the first international talk radio shows with real-time captioning focused on the employment and empowerment of people with disabilities. |
| Disability Radio Worldwide is a dynamic, 30-minute weekly program broadcast by FM stations, radio reading services, over the Internet, and on shortwave radio. |
| Fanlight Productions is a leading distributor of innovative film and video works on the social issues of our time, with a special focus on:
healthcare
mental health
professional ethics
aging and gerontology
disabilities
the workplace
gender and family issues
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| Hear My Hands, Inc., is a non profit organization dedicated to producing film and video projects in American Sign Language.
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| A collective of artists and performers who identify as being disabled or having a disability, its members are professional and amateur artists and performers of all genres. They include visual artists, screen and stage actors, dancers, comedians and humorists, musicians, singers, speakers, poets, writers, producers, directors and others working in the arts and entertainment industries. They experience physical, intellectual or learning disablement, mental illness, or a combination. |
| Media Access Australia is a not-for-profit, public benevolent institution and Australia's primary media access organisation. Our role is to provide information about media access and to develop and apply technological solutions to media access issues. This includes, but is not limited to, captioning and audio description. |
| Andrew Houghton, No Barriers Media’s founder, has used a wheelchair since a 1986 motorcycle accident resulted in paraplegia. Andrew launched No Barriers Media in 2012.
Andrew’s technical expertise in strategic communications and developing messages inclusive of people with disabilities, combined with his strategic partnerships, makes No Barriers Media a leading diversity supplier source for clients seeking high quality products and services at competitive prices. |
| RPH Australia is the national peak body for a network of unique, independent radio reading services striving to meet the daily information needs of over three million Australians with a print disability. Our members services are designed to provide easy access to the diverse range of printed information that 83% of Australians take their ability to read on a daily basis for granted. Combining the depth of information found in print, the dedication of over 1650 trained volunteers with the immediacy of radio is the essence of an RPH radio reading service.
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| Radio for the Print Handicapped (RPH) aims to provide, through radio, a service that meets the particular needs of people who have a "Print Handicap".
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| ...providing national newspapers and magazines on audio tape, computer disk, e-mail, internet download and CD-ROM for visually impaired and disabled people who find reading a strain.
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| MISSION
The Bardic Studio provides pathways to participation
in all aspects of cinema for all Australians.
VISION
We work actively towards contributing to an Australian
cinema that truly reflects the diversity of our community.
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| The Other Film Festival - New cinema by, with and about people with a disability
Australia's only disability film festival continues to bring groundbreaking films from around the world to Melbourne audiences. The Other Film Festival supports and encourages excellence in filmmaking, accessible cinema and the passionate exchange of ideas.
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| “Push Girls” the14-part series about four paralyzed women, isn’t just a voyeuristic glimpse into life with disability, it’s actually important television...
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| Attitude is an upbeat television magazine series designed to reflect the lifestyle, issues and interests of people either living with a disability or caring for a person with a disability. |
| For the 10th consecutive year NOVA Employment presents the Focus on Ability Short Film Festival. This festival asks film makers to 'Focus on the Ability' of people with a disability and tell a story on film for the world to view. The 10th festival is set to be the biggest yet, and our generous sponsors have donated over $140,000 worth of cash and prizes to encourage film makers and people with disability to tell their stories. |
| Making Moves Podcast is dedicated to those living with a spinal cord injury. In this podcast, you will hear about our failures and victories, ups and downs, and our pursuit of living life to the fullest. Our aim is to support and inspire those inflicted with an injury and to show that you can have an amazing, fulfilling, and successful life despite having a spinal cord injury. |
| After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. |
| While TV shows have made great strides in recent years to include much greater diversity in their casts—The Walking Dead, Scandal, and Orange is the New Black all come to mind—there hasn’t been as much progress when it comes to characters and actors with physical disabilities. As a result, it can be a bit difficult for those with physical disabilities to find their experiences reflected on the screen. To that end, I’ve compiled a list of the ten best television shows with disabled characters. Unfortunately, most are played by actors who do not have disabilities. That's nothing new, but I hope that it is changing. |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the remarkable true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a successful and charismatic editor-in-chief of French Elle, who believes he is living his life to its absolute fullest when a sudden stroke leaves him in a life-altered state. While the physical challenges of Bauby's fate leave him with little hope for the future, he begins to discover how his life's passions, his rich memories and his newfound imagination can help him achieve a life without boundaries.
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| Who would have thought the outback was wheelchair accessible? Four men ditch their wheelchairs for a quad bike adventure, traversing the rugged terrain of their tragic past.
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