Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival
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The Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival seeks to dispel common misperceptions about disability with films that have outstanding representations of people with a disability and disability itself.
For the Short Film Competition portion of Festival, secondary level students, university students and independent filmmakers are invited to create and submit their own representations of disability in a short film. Films must be 3- 20 minutes in length, and they must be about disability or starring /produced/ directed by a person with a disability.
There are two divisions for the competition: Emerging Filmmakers (ages 18+) and Scholastic Filmmakers (grades 6-12).
To be considered, each entry must satisfy the following criteria:
- Was the entry submitted by midnight August 10, 2012?
- Was the film under 20 minutes?
- Does the film relate to disability, or was it made by a person with a disability?
- *Films will then be judged by a panel consisting of film and media experts, according to the following criteria:
- Is the tone of the film relevant to disability?
- Will this short film change the way people think about persons with disabilities?
- How much originality was in the representation of disability?
- Is the short film entertaining/interesting/engrossing/captivating?
- How creative and imaginative was the film as a whole?
- Were disability stereotypes avoided?
- How much information about disability did the film present?
To submit an entry, fill out the registration form, and submit your film fest entry through Withoutabox.
Prizes
- First prize: $500
- Second Prize: $250
- Third Prize: $100
The top three finalists will have their films screened at Austin’s famous Alamo DraftHouse Theater with a chance to win the Audience Favorite Award. To be notified of Festival information contact us here, or Like us on Facebook. The Call For Entries for the 2012 Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival Competition opened January 15. The deadline is August 10, so your film will NOT be entered in the competition after this date.
Films
The 2012 film lineup:
Contact the Film Festival
Contact: Laura Perna
Phone: (512) 478-3366 ext. 305
Email: filmfest@txdisabilities.org
Submit to the Film Festival
The 2024 Short Film Competition is open.
Late registration ($80) is open now!
The final deadline is June 7.
