RAAFTO, presented by the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, puts accessibility at the forefront of its offerings
According to the Rick Hansen Foundation, roughly ¼ of Canadians identify as having a mobility, vision or hearing disability or challenge. Yet when it comes to showcasing and supporting stories about deaf and disability culture on Canadian screens, this country’s film festival landscape is not exactly bursting with claims to promote these communities or improve access for its members.
“This is a question that we discussed a lot, given this is the first time in three years that RAFFTO is back with any in-person events at all,” says Campbell. “But it serves our community well to have an online option. I can’t imagine a world in which we’ll go back to only in-person events again.”, a documentary about the Canadian Helen Keller Centre in Toronto, Mark Bone’s music-doc, following a young woman’s struggle with mental illness.
“People arrive at disability in some many different ways, but each of those experiences form an identity,” says Ophira Calof, creative director of the Accessible Writers’ Lab, a national program that was launched in part by RAFFTO to experiment with what a genuinely accessible TV writers room might look like in practice. “Disability culture is about how these all form a tapestry of many communities under one umbrella.
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