‘There’s this inherent censorship’: how trans cinema has endured over time
In the 25th edition of the groundbreaking San Francisco transgender film festival, sidelined narratives take center stage.
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Hollywood’s attempts to encourage diversity ‘performative’, study finds
Two new studies show female film-makers still underrepresented despite recent successes such as Barbie.
On relaxed screenings: neurodivergence and sound at the cinema
How loudness and sensitivity to sound and music can affect the cinematic experience for neurodivergent audiences.
The Space: Digital Accessibility: Best Practice
In early 2023 The Space convened an Accessibility Working Group with activists, artists and industry professionals who are all committed to improving digital access to the arts.
Crip Cinema Archive
Crip Cinema Archive is documenting disability on screen. The archive defines ‘crip cinema’ as films that speak to something about the crip experience, speak to crip audiences, or that have a crip writer, director, or lead actor. Crip cinema has a fraught history – one of stereotypes, omissions, and repression. We have a few goals for … More
Crip Club
Crip club is an online and in-person community & an accessible podcast using film discussion to tackle ableism behind the camera, on screen and in cinemas.
Caption This: the subtitling champions working to make festivals, screenings and global cinema more accessible
With subtitles now regularly switched on for at-home viewing, Rafa Sales Ross meets experts of the captioning craft to find out what gets lost in translation between humans and machines, and how to keep making the big screen more accessible.
What might a more inclusive film programming world look like?
Lillian Crawford and her fellow Barbican Young Programmers reflect on their experiences of curating film events and hopes for a more inclusive film programming community.
The Hollywood Reporter: A Recent History of the Academy’s Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Efforts
The 2024 Oscars will include confidential accessibility requests for all nominees and guests, captioning, audio description, in-theater assisted listening devices, accessible seating and parking, and a suite of ASL interpretation services.
gal-dem: We need to talk about racism in the UK Deaf community
From outdated BSL signs to a fear of being ostracised, double discrimination isn’t anything new for black people and people of colour in the UK Deaf community.
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