Few films make me as upset as The Sea Inside. It has been years since the first time I saw the 2004 Alejandro Amenábar vehicle, which stars Javier Bardem, as a real-life disabled man named Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish man who believed it was better to be dead than disabled….
Hollywood can be cruel, especially to people who are different. We have all seen what the film portrayals and casting have done to those who are actors of color, and those who are LGBT, especially transgender, but seldom do we hear about the unjust treatment of actors with disabilities. It…
While many believe that a film’s main purpose is to entertain, films do much more than that. They educate us. They empower us. They make us feel a plethora of emotions. Films introduce us to characters and worlds we may not know or understand. I’m an existential filmmaker. As such,…
The disability community has long been excluded from Hollywood and the Academy’s president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, reinforced that when she mentioned every marginalized community in the Academy’s diversity efforts… but the disability community.
In my youth, my world revolved around shows like Beavis and Butthead, a fact not ignored by my grandfather.
