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dear Michelle these Vinayan films are basically realistic melodramas intended for the box office they are released commercially and the cast includes major actors in Malayalam as you see, he has been at it for long, and in his latest film 'Magic Island' he had cast hundreds of dwarves! regards Venkiteswaran CS Director School of Media Studies Kakkanad, Kochi India 682 030 On 1/27/06, Michelle Langford <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear Venkiteswaran, > > These films sound interesting, are they particularly realist films, or > do these disabled heroes represent something larger, are they > allegorical perhaps? > > And Miriam, > Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi sometimes uses disabled characters > (usually blind), I'm not sure if the actors are actually disabled > though. Oh, and you might like to check out 'The House is Black' by > Forough Farrokhzad, which is a poetic doco featuring a leper community. > They're not 'actors' as such, but the Iranian cinema draws a very fine > line between actors and non-actors anyway. In any case it's a stunning > film that anyone interested in film should watch. > > Cheers, > Michelle > > > Dr Michelle Langford > Associate Lecturer > School of Media, Film & Theatre > The University of New South Wales > Sydney 2052 Australia > Room: Webster 311O > Phone: 02 9385 4489 > On 26/01/2006, at 6:22 PM, venkity wrote: > > > <image.tiff>there is a filmmaker from Kerala (India), Vinayan > > (Malayalam language ) > > who has made many films during the last 5-6 years with the central > > character as disabled > > > > in one film the hero is a hunchback, in another blind, and in the next > > one the hero and heroine are dumb and deaf > > > > if you are interested i will mail the details > > > > venkiteswaran > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > From: Miriam Ross > > Date: 01/26/06 02:54:48 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: actors with physical disabilities > > > > Hi > > I'm trying to compose a list of films/ documentarieswhich feature > > actors (not just characters) with physical or visually obvious > > disabilities. by this i mean disabilities that can be easily > > identified on the body such as down syndrome or autism as opposed to > > say depression or schizophrenia (although the boundaries obviously > > aren't clear). > > off hand my first example is Murderball, about quadriplegics in an > > Olympics rugby team > > thanks > > miriam > > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' > > please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To > > leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: > > [log in to unmask] For help email: > > [log in to unmask], not the salon. ** > > > > <image.tiff><image.tiff><imstp_heads_en.gif> * * Film-Philosophy Email > > Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text > > of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave > > film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: > > [log in to unmask], not the salon. ** > * > * > Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. > After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are > replying to. > To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: > [log in to unmask] > For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. > ** > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **