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Why are you doing Superfest differently this year?
We decided we took it over from the
previous organizers they were looking to turn it over to somebody new
So we decided well
What can we do to make it edgy and
and fun and change film viewing.
There's a lot of film festivals out there
now and people go and quietly sit in their little chairs and they
watch a film and we thought, well what would what would it be like to really get
an interactive film experience and you bring in audio description of films
so blind people can benefit, but you'll see tonight
the audio descriptions is going to be very different than the usual fair.
We built it all into the program so everybody can enjoy it.
You know Superfest is a long history
right, it was the first, in the United States to sort of say
we're going to take this, we're going to claim this
we're gonna show it from our perspective.
But we can never lose sight of disabled people doing it for themselves.
But there's something really special
about being in a room with your peers.
Everyone of us here fight the same fight.
It might be a different venue. It might be a different disability,
but it really is the same fight and to be in a room with
hundreds of people each of whom has to explain and has to educate
just felt so supportive and so much of a community.
So I just wanted to be serious for a minute because everybody's been a little bit
funny up here, and it is funny.
It's nice to be in a room full of people who actually get it, and we can laugh about these
things and deconstruct and critique at the same time
And I look forward to a day when we actually have
more serious films that we can be proud of. Thank you.
Why was it so important to do The Dissies?
Well we're really looking forward to getting back to the good films next year,
but this year we wanted to do something
something different
and something that takes time to
notice that even though things are getting better, we still have a really long way to go.