The Easterseals Disability Film Challenge recognizes the talent and hard work that goes into creating a film and will be presenting awards to film challenge participants: Best Film, Best Director, Best Editor, Best Actor, Awareness Campaign Award and Best Writer.
2024 Winners will receive:
- $2,000 grants to each category winner.
- $15,000 seed fund/film finishing grant provided by the Adobe Foundation to winners of Best Film, Best Director, Best Writer, Best Actor and Best Editor to further develop the winning short film and/or to accelerate the development of their projects into feature films or episodic series.
- A Dell Technologies computer
- A Sony Cinema Line Camera FX30
- One-year membership to IMDbPro, the essential resource for entertainment industry professionals.
- Screenings at Academy Award-qualifying festivals, including the Heartland Film Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival and NewFilmmakers LA.
- One-year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, the world’s best platform of creative apps and services, empowering you to make anything you can imagine, wherever you’re inspired.
- Mentorship meetings with entertainment industry executives and talent, including Emmy-nominated actor Ryan O’Connell (Special, Queer as Folk); Ivana Lombardi, Director of Film, Netflix; Karen Noble, Senior Manager, Creative Talent and Content, Global Talent Development & Inclusion, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group; Steven O’Dell, President, Sony Pictures Releasing International; and Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, Executive VP, Entertainment Diversity & Inclusion, West Coast, Paramount Global.
Learn more about each award and last year’s winners by selecting an icon below.
