Fall down seven times, get up eight. On June 29th, 2023, the indie feature Daruma had its world premiere through Dances with Films Film Festival to a sold out crowd at the illustrious TCL Chinese Theatre. Described by the filmmakers as a dark comedy, the story follows Patrick (a bitter wheelchair user played by Tobias [click to continue...]
The indie short For the Safety of Theo had its world premiere at the world-famous TCL Chinese Theater as part of Dances with Films Festival, and it’s not hard to see why it was selected. For the Safety of Theo follows a young man with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) who must purge himself of the [click to continue...]
After being financed by the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Voyage avec mon pere, translated to A Journey With My Dad, premiered at the 2023 Bentonville Film Festival in the Competition Animation Films category. The hand-drawn animated short follows a precocious 5 year old girl named Tamar as she accompanies her dad to a hotel for [click to continue...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFH0mof77NQ The 2023 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Entry Rick’s Cafe follows a third date at a cafe that gets really intense. Founded by Nic Novicki, the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge is an annual five-day competition in which filmmakers must create original three-to-five minute films based on a different theme each year. This year’s theme was [click to continue...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwfuTV7ack The 2023 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Entry Coming Clean follows an autistic woman (played by WarnerDiscovery Early Career Bootcamp Alumni Amelia Green) in her late 30s named Alexandra as she attempts to navigate the balance between her professional goals and romantic interests. Founded by Nic Novicki, the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge is an annual [click to continue...]
RespectAbility 2021 Lab Alumna and Unstoppable Film Festival Founder Juliet Romeo’s short film Cooptation follows a young African American woman determined to fit into society’s beauty standards by using a new beauty product with deadly consequences. Cooptation’s opening credits are filled with melancholic shots of night life as we hear the hauntingly beautiful song “I’ll [click to continue...]
Jeremy Hsing is a humanistic sci-fi writer, mental health advocate, and second-gen Taiwanese immigrant based in L.A. He was previously a Get Lit Screenwriters Lab Fellow, RespectAbility Entertainment Lab Fellow, and Coverfly Best Unrepped Writers List 2022 Honoree.
Los Angeles, Feb 1 – I bloom. I flower. I grow. I thrive. These four short sentences are etched into a notebook near the end of the animated short By Water, which premiered at Sundance 2023 as part of the Animation Short Film Program. The intensely personal experimental short follows an unlikely hero’s journey into [click to continue...]
Park City, Utah, Jan. 25 – After winning the Julia S Gouw Film Challenge in partnership with Janet Yang Productions and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, the short film Take Me Home had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The short follows a cognitively disabled adult named Anna who lives [click to continue...]
