Share your opinion! Watch the films and select your choices for the Best Film and Best Editor categories and we will share the top selections from the online vote after the Awards Ceremony on Thursday, August 13!
2020 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge: Home Edition- Full Assignment GENRE: Documentary Short 2020 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge: Home Edition Assignment: Documentary short. The Easterseals Disability Film Challenge: Home Edition is a narrative short film competition. Because our film challenge participants are currently staying home and safe due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the genre of the assignment is documentary. The theme of the documentaries should [...]
Calling All Disability Activists and Allies! Let’s come together to celebrate our history, the fight for equal rights, inclusion, representation and so much more. Judy Heumann is a true American hero, a visionary leader, and pioneering activist. Her memoir is a must-read, now more than ever. Easterseals, as the nation’s oldest and largest disability services [...]
Winners of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Announced by Micah Fowler, Geri Jewell, CJ Jones, Ryan O’Connell, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and More at Sony Pictures Studios LOS ANGELES, CA — (May 10, 2019) - On Thursday, May 9, 2019, the orange carpet was rolled out at Sony Pictures Studios for the annual Easterseals Disability [...]
Annual Film Challenge Celebrates Inclusion in the Entertainment Industry; Winners to be Announced May 9 at Sony Pictures Studios NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Easterseals, the leading disability services organization, announced the finalists of the 2019 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge on Saturday at the Newport Beach Film Festival, followed by a screening of the [...]
On Saturday, April 27, the finalists of the 2019 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge will be announced live from the Newport Beach Film Festival! 2019 finalists will receive a one-year subscription to Variety Magazine, a membership to Film Independent, and an invitation to a filmmaker workshop hosted by the Sundance Institute. This year we received 71 [...]
We are pleased to announce that all finalists in the 2019 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge will be invited to attend a creative & professional workshop hosted by the Sundance Institute on May 10! This half-day program will be led by Sundance’s Lab staff, Sundance Film Festival shorts programmers and artist program alumni. We thank Sundance for [...]
The 2019 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge begins now! The full assignment can be found below. GENRE: Science-Fiction The films entered into the 2019 film challenge must be in the genre of Sci-Fi. Some examples include: "Back To The Future" "Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure" "Super 8" "The Martian" "Inception" "Looper" “Men In Black" "Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse" "Get [...]
Today we are announcing the 2019 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Genre, Settings an Themes! Remember, the film challenge will officially begin at 11:00AM PST on Friday, April 5 with the announcement of the full assignment, including story elements. GENRE: Science-Fiction The films entered into the 2019 film challenge must be in the genre of Sci-Fi. Some [...]
The two actors are friends IRL, and together, their characters will take on new issues around disability in compelling episodes of CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans. Tune in tonight, Tuesday, April 2! Watch a special sneak preview here. The Tuesday, April 2 episode of NCIS: New Orleans unites two passionate advocates for [...]