I was about to forward the message to someone I know who is in a 3 year
program that trains people with disabilities in video production -- but
then, reading the list of artistic media the award covers, I see that
film & video are not included.
Perhaps someone who knows this foundation could persuade them to add a
couple of art areas to their list?
The way that mass media is evolving, film / video are certainly
important artistic media in terms of both communicating disabled points
of view to a general audience, but also in terms of just not being left
behind while other social groups do participate in the public sphere of
mass media. Getting just a single half-hour video shown on a cable-TV
public-access channel ("public access channels" are a public-service
requirement in some states' cable laws in the US, which includes giving
local groups / people studio time; I hear ? there are equivalents in
some other countries) of a local cable station, or getting a sixteen
millimeter film shown at a few film festivals, art houses or colleges
---- probably reaches a thousand if not several thousand times more
people than, say, an art exhibit (said by someone who did show work in
local art exhibits; before deciding to channel that artistic energy in
another direction -- architecture). All artisitic media are wonderful,
but some like film / video have a more political dimension by the nature
of how many they reach, and by what level of specificity they can reach
in the information contained.
(In the first year of his video training, my friend Carmelo has
co-produced & co-directed with his student-partner, a video called "One
Night Sit" [an expression equivalent to "one night stand", referring to
people who use wheelchairs]. It contains interviews with a number of
gay men in New York City, with various disabilities.)
Are there any awards / grants out there that ARE open to people with
disabilites doing film or video?
Jim
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