Media: Superfest 2000: Winning Videos from Europe, Australia & USA

Media:

Superfest 2000: Winning Videos from Europe, Australia & USA

The Corporation on Disabilities and Telecommunication (CDT) presents SUPERFEST, an International Media Festival on Disabilities. The SUPERFEST XX screenings will take place from 1-5 p.m. on June 3rd and 4th, 2000, at La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., in Berkeley. On June 4th, a "Meet the Filmmakers Reception" will take place from 6-7 p.m., followed by an awards ceremony from 7-9 p.m. Screening ticket prices $5-$10 sliding scale for each day. Tickets will be sold at the door. Reception and awards ceremony are free.

The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please refrain from wearing perfume or other scented products. Sign language interpreters will be provided at the screening upon request by leaving a message at the CDT office, 5l0-845-5576, by May 26. Interpreters will be provided from 6-9 p.m. on Sunday, June 4th.

Come be a part of a cultural experience...watch some films, network with other creative types, eat some yummies, and root and celebrate at the awards event. If you missed last year's awards event, talk to someone who came... we had a BLAST! What better way to welcome the summer?

For More Information Contact CDT: PO Box 1107, Berkeley, CA, 94701; 510-845-5576; cdtinfo@aol.com. Call the office if you would like a hard copy schedule mailed to you.

CDT is a non-profit organization that works to eliminate stereotypical media images of people with disabilities by promoting and supporting performers, artists, and mediamakers with disabilities.

SUPERFEST XX AWARD WINNERS BEST OF FESTIVAL:

Disability Culture Rap
Producers: Cheryl Marie Wade and Jerry Smith

SPIRIT AWARD:

Disability Culture Rap
Producers: Cheryl Marie Wade and Jerry Smith

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE:

Good Service Makes Good Sense
Producer: Cathy Crocfer

Walk This Way
Producer: Kathryn Vander

ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:

At the Pub
Producers: Anette and Lars Mullback

Click Three Times
Producers: Victoria Sampson and Chantel Marie

A Few Simple Words
Producer: Jerry Smith

MERIT AWARDS:

Words From the Heart: Mentoring
Producer: Disabled Women's Alliance

Independent Today
Producer: Peter D. Collman

The Disabling Bullet
Producers: Patrick Devlieger and Miriam Hertz

Peak Practice-Language of the Eye
Producer: Mervyn Gill-Dougherty

Danny and the Scatman
Producer: Peter Nicks

SUPERFEST XX

Screening Schedule
La Pena Cultural Center; 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California

Saturday, June 3, 1-5pm:
1:00 Peak Practice: "Language of the Eye" -- [United Kingdom]
In an episode of a medical drama series based in England's Peak District, a teen's parents want her to get a cochlea implant to improve her hearing. She feels her deafness is part of who she is and turns it down.

2:00 Short Cuts -- [Australia]
"Short Cuts" is a collection of animations made in the studios of Arts Project Australia, plus Valerio Coccone's "Bus, Train, Chocolate Cake." Most of the creative work was done by artists with developmental disabilities.

2:30 Click Three Times -- [U.S.]
A young woman with a disability finds a bag lady hiding in her garage and assumes she is her fairy godmother. Their unlikely friendship brings about healing between Karen and her parents. (Stars Isabel Sanford.)

3:10 A Few Simple Words - [U.S.]
A small group of activists with developmental disabilities and their allies insist that the numbered grave markers at state institutions be replaced with proper headstones and that the state apologize for mistreatment and neglect.

3:50 No Steps. Hope. - [Finland]
In the jungle of urban environment, you can find your way with no steps. But be aware, you may be labeled. (Experimental work)

4:00 At the Pub - [Norway]
A man with a disability goes to the pub alone, feeling like an intruder in a world for "normal" people. This short was the most discussed among the judges this year...people either loved it or hated it. Come see why.

4:15 Lead Us Not -- [Ireland]
In this dark comedy, an unknown amnesiac actor becomes a celebrity: "Father Filth," the pornographic priest. A tongue-in-cheek look at a disability experience. The cast, crew, writer and producers are all disabled.

4:30 Disability Culture Rap - [U.S., local]
This work, featuring poet/activist/performer Cheryl Marie Wade, takes a fresh look at disability in America. Not the usual anthropological study of disabled people as specimens, but as members of a disability culture. Many locals have cameos in this flat out, no apologies celebration of difference.

Sunday, June 4, 1-5pm:
1:00 Independent Today - [U.S.]
"Independent Today" is a series; the vignette subjects for this episode include the Roosevelt memorial and NARIC, a national database on disability.

1:25 I Just Have to Laf - [U.S., local]
This short combines a poem by Neil Marcus with photographs by Brenda Prager. "I Just have to Laf / cuz i'm so spastic / I Just have to Laf / cuz when I get really excited / talking to someone new / all my parts fling out..."

1:35 Customers with Disabilities: Going Wireless - [U.S., local]
This training video, featuring local actors with disabilities, reinforces positive interactions with customers with a variety of disabilities.

2:00 The Disabling Bullet - [U.S.]
For some men who were disabled through violence, the disability became a transforming force, for others it confirmed the way of life in the inner city.

2:35 Words From the Heart: Mentoring - [U.S., local]
This video shares inspiring stories, funny anecdotes and resourceful strategies of disabled women from Ireland to Zimbabwe and beyond.

3:00 Danny and the Scatman - [U.S.]
This is a story about two people who stutter: a boy on his way to realizing his dream of following the footsteps of film director Michelangelo Antonioni, and a musician who found a way his "disability" could make him rich.

3:35 Good Service Makes Good Sense - [U.S., local]
This industrial video is part of a program that is designed to ensure that all customers receive the kind of attention, service and respect they deserve.

4:00 Walk This Way - [U.S.]
Ron Bachman was born with legs he could not use. At 4, his parents had his legs amputated and he was trained to use prostheses. Eventually, Ron decided to abandon his prostheses along with the expectations of others.

4:30 Disability Culture Rap - [U.S., local]
This work, featuring poet/activist/performer Cheryl Marie Wade, takes a fresh look at disability in America. Not the usual anthropological study of disabled people as specimens, but as members of a disability culture. Many locals have cameos in this flat out, no apologies celebration of difference.

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