Autism blog and youtube live stream

 I met Michael Lettman on Zoom and he was kind enough to let me do a few blog posts for his Autism blog. Here is my first post. Click here https://masterml9502.wixsite.com/livingwithautism/post/a-guest-post-by-margot  to read the blog. 

Julesworks which often collaborates with Teatro Paraguas was kind enough to include the “A Stroke Of Endurance” trailer and some good words for Crip Video Productions with our full permission on a cool youtube live stream yesterday(Dec 27th). Here’s the stream replay here https://youtu.be/9R2JfDUlaAY If you like Julesworks content check out Julesworks Follies 64 on the Teatro Paraguas Xerb here https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events/1448 Watch on Xerb BEFORE December 31! 

EDIT: Julesworks was kind enough to stream the "A Stroke Of Endurance" trailer again on Jan 2 2021. Our trailer is at 1:22:04 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urbNTNl0ryE&feature=youtu.be with a shoutout to all our actors!  

The film “A Stroke Of Endurance” is roughly based on a true story about a professor who had a stroke wanted to live vibrantly."A Stroke Of Endurance” was screened at Teatro Paraguas in 2018 and you can still view the recording of Margot Cole, John Diodato and Izabela Ginda from "A Stroke Of Endurance" performing with Teatro Paraguas in "Home For The Holidays Con Amor Y Gozo" by Alix Hudson here https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events/1559 until January 8 2021! 

Special thanks to Michael Lettman and Stephen Jules Rubin! 

Crip Video Productions has big plans for 2021! Stay tuned! 

Xerb link to watch Crip Video Productions perform with Teatro Paraguas!

 Thank you so much to those of you who watched "Home For The Holidays" on Zoom! If you missed the play, want to see it again, or share it with other people, "A Musical Pinata for Christmas VIII Home For The Holidays" is now available for viewing on Xerb for FREE here https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events/1559 ONLY until January 8 2021!!! Free play! An inclusive play with disabled actors and non-disabled actors performing together! 

Please share the information about the play below with others widely! Xerb register link here! 

https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events/1559 

If you haven't made a Xerb account yet simply input your name and email to make a free account and then click the yellow register button to view the play.

The play is  on xerb.tv with videos of short scenes and carols and holiday music by the Teatro Paraguas Orchestra from previous community celebrations.

Alix Hudson & Paola Vengoechea-Martini's short play, Home for the Holidays: Con Amor y Gozo, is a Spanglish romp of Advent (and Chanukah) 2020. In Home for the Holidays, the 20 actors of all ages from our Paraguas family are also a literal family -- desperately trying to cobble together a "normal" Christmas for the family matriarch, Mama JoJo (JoJo Sena de Tarnoff). But group Christmas preparations on Zoom don't prove easy in the midst of the pandemic. Mama JoJo's daughters (Cristina Vigil, Juliet Salazar, Jeni Tincher, Alix Hudson, Sharla Stearn, Julia Gay, Paola Vengoechea-Martini) each take different approaches coping with the stress, from remedios to music to micromanagement, and Tio Padre Froggy (Rudy Fernandez) worries about composing his famous Misa del Gallo homily. While the teenagers (Luca Martini, Shaunti Sitonik, Amaya Smith) are more than okay with the lax oversight, their little primos (Logan Gay, Josephine Tincher, Emilia Martini) worry about the rest of the family. Eclectic Uncles (Stephen Jules Rubin, Argos MacCallum) remind us of our Musical Piñata for Christmas tradition, now in its 8th year. And observing this locura are the New York cousins, who have no excuse not to attend the family Christmas in its online format. The NY primos are played by New York City-based Crip Video Productions   http://cripvideoproductions.com  company members from "A Stroke Of Endurance" http://cripvideoproductions.com/astrokeofendurance.php  Margot Cole, John Diodato, and Izabela Ginda. Will the familia pull off the perfect rendition of Mama JoJo's favorite carol, "Vamos Todos a Belén," despite the odds?? 

Crip Video Productions mentioned in Teatro Paraguas press articles Theater in Digital Spere.  Theatre Santa Fe

After you watch "Home For The Holidays" check out A Musical Piñata for Christmas Retrospective and other plays such as "Volver, Volver, Volver" "Red Bike" and "Love In The DMZ" on Teatro Paraguas Xerb channel!  

Teatro Paraguas theater and Crip Video Productions have collaborated in the past for screenings of all 4 Crip Video Productions films at different times in 2015 and in 2018 https://cripvideoproductions.tumblr.com/post/172227194621/a-stroke-of-endurance-santa-fe-screening-2018  https://cripvideoproductions.tumblr.com/post/172253907471/a-stroke-of-endurance-santa-fe-screening-2018  https://cripvideoproductions.tumblr.com/post/174001330906/this-is-the-playbill-from-the-teatro-paraguas 

This is reposted with full permission of Teatro Paraguas!

DISCLAIMER: This online production has no connection to Crip Video Productions. Crip Video Productions does NOT receive monetary gain. This is an entirely separate project. This event is posted by Crip Video Productions for advertisement purposes only! All copyright belongs to original owners!  

Zoom link to watch Crip Video Productions perform with Teatro Paraguas

 Register on Zoom now! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kUJ-DG9JTzuTIfgKgVGHCg 

 Teatro Paraguas theater and Crip Video Productions have collaborated in the past for screenings of all 4 Crip Video Productions films at different times in 2015 and in 2018 that you can read about in our "achieve" post sections on this blog. https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-mexico-2018-screening-press-release.html  https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/01/santa-fe-new-mexico-screening-parts-1.html  Now Crip Video Productions is performing in a Zoom play titled "Home for the Holidays: Con Amor y Gozo," a Zoom play by Alix Hudson on Friday, December 18 2020 7:00pm mountain time on Zoom. Please watch the play and consider donating to Teatro Paraguas! This is an inclusive play where disabled performers and non-disabled performers perform together! Read our previous post about the play here (edited to include Zoom link)  https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2020/12/crip-video-productions-performs-with.html 

 Zoom and Xerb register links here! 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kUJ-DG9JTzuTIfgKgVGHCg 

https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events/1559 

Teatro Paraguas presents A Musical Piñata for Christmas VIII on Zoom & xerb.tv

WHAT: 8th Annual A Musical Piñata for Christmas community celebration

WHEN: Friday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Live on Zoom, available afterwards on xerb.tv

Zoom link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kUJ-DG9JTzuTIfgKgVGHCg  

Free! Donations gratefully accepted!

On Friday, December 18, 2020, Teatro Paraguas will present A Musical Piñata for Christmas VIII, an annual community celebration for the Holidays.  This virtual offering features a short play by Alix Hudson and Paola vengoechea Martini, entitled Home for the Holidays: Con Amor y Gozo, which will be live on Zoom.  Afterwards the audience is invited to join us for a virtual gathering.

The play will be posted afterwards on xerb.tv with videos of short scenes and carols and holiday music by the Teatro Paraguas Orchestra from previous community celebrations.

Alix Hudson & Paola Vengoechea-Martini's short play, Home for the Holidays: Con Amor y Gozo, is a Spanglish romp of Advent (and Chanukah) 2020. In Home for the Holidays, the 20 actors of all ages from our Paraguas family are also a literal family -- desperately trying to cobble together a "normal" Christmas for the family matriarch, Mama JoJo (JoJo Sena de Tarnoff). But group Christmas preparations on Zoom don't prove easy in the midst of the pandemic. Mama JoJo's daughters (Cristina Vigil, Juliet Salazar, Jeni Tincher, Alix Hudson, Sharla Stearn, Julia Gay, Paola Vengoechea-Martini) each take different approaches coping with the stress, from remedios to music to micromanagement, and Tio Padre Froggy (Rudy Fernandez) worries about composing his famous Misa del Gallo homily. While the teenagers (Luca Martini, Shaunti Sitonik, Amaya Smith) are more than okay with the lax oversight, their little primos (Logan Gay, Josephine Tincher, Emilia Martini) worry about the rest of the family. Eclectic Uncles (Stephen Jules Rubin, Argos MacCallum) remind us of our Musical Piñata for Christmas tradition, now in its 8th year. And observing this locura are the New York cousins, who have no excuse not to attend the family Christmas in its online format. The NY primos are played by New York City-based Crip Video Productions   http://cripvideoproductions.com  company members from "A Stroke Of Endurance" http://cripvideoproductions.com/astrokeofendurance.php  Margot Cole, John Diodato, and Izabela Ginda. Will the familia pull off the perfect rendition of Mama JoJo's favorite carol, "Vamos Todos a Belén," despite the odds?? Join us at 9pm NYC time, 7pm Mountain Time, on December 18th -- on Zoom! -- to find out.

This information is reposted with full permission of Teatro Paraguas! 

DISCLAIMER: This online production has no connection to Crip Video Productions. Crip Video Productions does NOT receive monetary gain from any aspect of this production. Donations go to Teatro Paraguas, NOT Crip Video Productions! This is an entirely separate project. This event is posted by Crip Video Productions for advertisement purposes only! All copyright belongs to original owners!  

Crip Video Productions performs with Teatro Paraguas theater!

 Margot Cole, John Diodato and Izabela Ginda from the Crip Video Productions film "A Stroke Of Endurance" http://cripvideoproductions.com/astrokeofendurance.php are in a Zoom play! Friday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m Mountain Time. "Home for the Holidays: Con Amor y Gozo", a Zoom play by Alix Hudson Teatro Paraguas' annual holiday espectaculo A Musical Piñata for Christmas VIII with scenes from previous community celebrations. http://teatroparaguas.org Free! An inclusive play with disabled actors and non-disabled that children can enjoy!

Full details are reposted with permission from Teatro Paraguas: 

Teatro Paraguas presents A Musical Piñata for Christmas VIII on Zoom & xerb.tv

WHAT: 8th Annual A Musical Piñata for Christmas community celebration

WHEN: Friday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Live on Zoom, available afterwards on xerb.tv

Zoom link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kUJ-DG9JTzuTIfgKgVGHCg 

Free, donations gratefully accepted. teatroparaguas.org Xerb link to watch after December 23 https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events/1559 

On Friday, December 18, 2020, Teatro Paraguas will present A Musical Piñata for Christmas VIII, an annual community celebration for the Holidays. This virtual offering features a short play by Alix Hudson and Paola vengoechea Martini, entitled Home for the Holidays: Con Amor y Gozo, which will be live on Zoom. Afterwards the audience is invited to join us for a virtual gathering.

The play will be posted afterwards on xerb.tv with videos of short scenes and carols ad holiday music by the Teatro Paraguas Orchestra from previous community celebrations.

Alix Hudson & Paola Vengoechea-Martini's short play, "Home for the Holidays: Con Amor y Gozo", is a Spanglish romp of Advent (and Chanukah) 2020. In Home for the Holidays, the 20 actors of all ages from our Paraguas family are also a literal family -- desperately trying to cobble together a "normal" Christmas for the family matriarch, Mama JoJo (JoJo Sena de Tarnoff). But group Christmas preparations on Zoom don't prove easy in the midst of the pandemic. Mama JoJo's daughters (Cristina Vigil, Juliet Salazar, Jeni Tincher, Alix Hudson, Sharla Stearn, Julia Gay, Paola Vengoechea-Martini) each take different approaches coping with the stress, from remedios to music to micromanagement, and Tio Padre Froggy (Rudy Fernandez) worries about composing his famous Misa del Gallo homily. While the teenagers (Luca Martini, Shaunti Sitonik, Amaya Smith) are more than okay with the lax oversight, their little primos (Logan Gay, Josephine Tincher, Emilia Martini) worry about the rest of the family. Eclectic Uncles (Stephen Jules Rubin, Argos MacCallum) remind us of our Musical Piñata for Christmas tradition, now in its 8th year. And observing this locura are the New York cousins, who have no excuse not to attend the family Christmas in its online format. The NY primos are played by New York City-based Crip Video Productions http://cripvideoproductions.com company members, Margot Cole, John Diodato, and Izabela Ginda. Will the familia pull off the perfect rendition of Mama JoJo's favorite carol, "Vamos Todos a Belén," despite the odds?? Join us at 7pm on December 18th -- on Zoom! -- to find out.

DISCLAIMER: This online production has no connection to Crip Video Productions. Crip Video Productions does NOT receive monetary gain directly or indirectly from this play. This is an entirely separate project. This event is posted by Crip Video Productions for advertisement purposes only! All copyright belongs to original owners!  

More news from Crip Video Productions like presentations and guest posts coming soon!

Disability Advocacy online presentation

 

Today(November 19th 2020) we had another presentation over video conferencing call that also included disability rights advocates/activists outside of the immediate Crip Video Productions circles which added a new perspective to the online discussion. We talked a lot about Cerebral Palsy, visual impairments and issues that black disabled people face. We got questions about what disabilities were genetic, which disabilities were not genetic, and how to help disabled people that are bullied. One person asked about Disability Studies. We discussed surgeries for Cerebral Palsy and organizations that are meant to help disabled people find employment. We met audience members with invisible disabilities. The turnout was probably one of the largest audiences we have had online. About 79 people including one person from the UK. We had such a large turnout with a ton of people asking for another presentation to be created! So we will make that happen.

Super Special thanks to everyone involved with this live video presentation! Crip Video Productions has full permission from all the people involved in the presentation to write this blog post.

In other news, the collaboration project with the working title "Students Talk" is coming along well. 

World Stroke Day 2020

 Today October 29th 2020 is World Stroke Day 2020. In appreciation of the stroke survivors who have inspired us such as one stroke survivor who allowed us to interview her personally to add to the authenticity of Professor Ben’s character, symptoms and recovery process, in our film  "A Stroke Of Endurance" and other survivors who supported our film “A Stroke Of Endurance” from the very beginning of its creation, and after like our wonderful new fans who are stroke survivors that let us into their worlds https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-stroke-of-endurance-featured-on.html Crip Video Productions would like to now be a part of World Stroke Day every year! 

We wrote a post for World Stroke Day 2018 here

https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/01/screening-and-world-stroke-day-2018.html and for World Stroke Day 2019 here  https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-stroke-day-2019.html 

Please read our previous posts linked for a poem by a cast member of "A Stroke Of Endurance" for World Stroke Day and, reminders and encouragement for Stroke Survivors! 

To watch “A Stroke Of Endurance” for free with open captions and audio description, and share it with other stroke survivors and their loved ones for World Stroke Day see here http://cripvideoproductions.com/astrokeofendurance.php We hope "A Stroke Of Endurance" is a great resource for all stroke survivors and their loved ones for World Stroke Day today and everyday!

This year, during the ongoing pandemic, Crip Video Productions would like people to be aware that according to current research COVID19 increases the risk of having a stroke, especially ischemic stroke, and if you have already had a stroke, you might be at a high risk of developing complications of COVID19 coronavirus. 

In other news, we met an autism advocate on a Zoom call about higher education for individuals with intellectual disabilities, named Michael Lettman who is allowing Crip Video Productions to share his website  https://masterml9502.wixsite.com/livingwithautism 

 and videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIwZZi9fPPyYQXaIAw7wwg 
 with our fans. Check them out and share! Michael Lettman's website is a good resource for those who want to know about higher education and autism. 

Our friends at Teatro Paraguas also have a XERB channel now! https://xerb.tv/channel/teatro-paraguas/virtual-events Support Teatro Paraguas! (Please note! Crip Video Productions is not responsible for content on these external links!) 

We have more Crip Video Productions screenings, presentations and projects planned for November 2020.

World CP Day 2020: More private screenings

 October 6th 2020 is World Cerebral Palsy Day. Today and everyday Crip Video Productions celebrates the achievements of those with CP all over the world by depicting characters with Cerebral Palsy living vibrantly and involving people with Cerebral Palsy in all our film productions. We apologize that we don't often post on World Cerebral Palsy Day. Luckily a fan reminded us this year! Special thanks to all Crip Video Productions fans.  More information about Cerebral Palsy can be found on our "About Page" on the main website. 

One way Crip Video Productions adapted and innovated like many others with Cerebral Palsy was by moving all of our operations to an online format. Crip Video Productions is still operating entirely remotely due to Coronavirus. 

On September 27 2020 we did a private screening and presentation through videoconferencing call discussing the films, education, IEPs, accessible teaching techniques, and transition plans. We talked about the term "Crip". Some of the people at the screening were paras in training or worked with people with developmental disabilities and intellectual disabilities in their daily lives. We discussed the Americans with Disabilities Act and what needs to still be improved regarding disability rights policy and perceptions of disability in the media and perceptions in general. We discussed other mainstream disability documentaries. One of the audience members was film studies instructor. There were a lot of questions about Cerebral Palsy. 

After the screening we received feedback via emails from various members of the audience. One person shared their experience of being limited and frustrated by an IEP, another shared that they thought the "Better Dead Than Disabled" trope in media was pure propaganda. Many audience members asked us to present for them again. 

We have full permission from all the people involved to write this post. Special thanks to everyone involved with this screening!

Margot Cole continues to work on “Students Talk” with Mary Lynn Navarro and with creators in Santa Fe New Mexico USA. Margot Cole performed as an understudy as a character with Cerebral Palsy in the Zoom play "She Kills Monsters" back in August.  More screenings are being planned for November 2020. 

Live Video Presentations Summer 2020

As the COVID19 pandemic is ongoing Crip Video Productions continues to operate well online. 

On July 21 2020 Crip Video Productions did another video call presentation on disability. We had more of the disabled and non-disabled cast members of “Crips Not Creeps” and “A Stroke Of Endurance” presenting.  A lot of the presentation was focused on Cerebral Palsy, as well as visual impairment and another disability called dyspraxia. We talked about the ongoing effects of coronavirus on the disability community since our last COVID19 talk. We talked about IEPs, disability terminology, social model vs medical model of disability, hypotonia, hypertonia, and AFOs. We talked about the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act and the positive impact and rights the Americans With Disabilities Act provides to our cast and crew and all other disabled citizens. One person asked if everything was hard with a disability and we responded that disability is not suffering or tragedy. We discussed media and disability portrayal and noticed non-verbal people were more rarely depicted in the media. One person asked if “disability” should be used instead of “disorder”. One person asked if disabled kids tend to be overprotected. One woman asked us if we had advice for disabled kids and parents of disabled kids and even brought up the idea of Crip Video Productions talking to kids and parents as well as more college faulty in the Fall of 2020.  We got very positive feedback about the presentation after it ended. 

Please contact Crip Video Productions via email if you want to use the films as online teaching tools. 

Please note that we have full permission from all people involved with the presentation to write this post. 

Comics and feedback

Mark Pauling, an actor from our film “A Stroke Of Endurance”  who plays a college student in Ava’s class in the film, is selling some awesome comic books on Ebay here https://www.ebay.com/usr/calamity_collectables Please check it out! Please note!: Crip Video Productions does NOT receive any monetary gain from the sale of the comics! Please contact them through Ebay for help if needed, NOT Crip Video Productions.

We got more feedback on our online video calls from viewers saying they felt empowered by the presentations. The viewers said they now have a more positive view of disability and did not realize Cerebral Palsy came with a very sensitive startle reflex. Some viewers said they had never met anyone with the spastic diplegia type of Cerebral Palsy before meeting us.

It’s also “Stroke Awareness Month” for our fans with strokes in May. Please share “A Stroke Of Endurance” with stroke survivors this month. 

Adapting due to COVID19-Live video presentations

We are writing to you, our international fans from social distancing and hope that our fans, especially fans who are high risk and have disabilities are staying healthy. 

"A Stroke Of Endurance" has 21 likes on youtube as this post! I heard from a new film fan via email that she found my film "A Stroke Of Endurance" to be a "soothing comfort" to her in isolation during coronavirus. 

Crip Video Productions had multiple in person screenings planned for Spring 2020 including a continuation of the creation of the media project “Students Talk” with Professor Mary Lynn Navarro. Unfortunately: Due to the virus any in-person Crip Video Productions projects and screenings are cancelled and/or delayed until further notice, but I'm doing presentations via video call and made a series of pre made, pre recorded totally private videos throughout April 2020. I had to learn new video call softwares. On Tuesday May 12 2020, we did a 1hr and 15 minute long private live stream video call for a few college classes. Myself and my actors, Tim Snoha, Daniel Lirano, and John Diodato presented. We had about 45 people on the video call. We discussed the films "Only Those Who Limp Allowed", "Crips Not Creeps" and "A Stroke Of Endurance". We discussed coronavirus and the effects of the virus on the disability community. We answered questions related to general disability issues and specific coronavirus issues that the disability community faces. The people who joined the live video included some fans from previous screenings. One person from a pervious screening shared a funny story in which a fire drill occurred during the middle of my talk at a previous screening. My actor Tim Snoha gave a beautiful, very poetic description of what Cerebral Palsy is. Daniel Lirano gave examples of the different types of Cerebral Palsy. John Diodato talked about blindness. One student expressed to us that she was sadly grieving the death of a relative due to COVID19 which led to a discussion of suicide and mental health. Another student expressed that after meeting us she felt she needed disability accommodations in school. Many students said we inspired them. Many students enjoyed how self confident myself and my actors were. Many people on the call enjoyed having a connection to other human beings during the pandemic albeit via a computer screen because they missed being around people. One person who worked in the school system asked how we as a society could improve education for disabled students. An able bodied person commented that hearing our experiences as actual disabled people helped her have a more inside view of disability. 

Even after the presentation I received even more questions via email about therapies for Cerebral Palsy, disability discrimination, and plans for future films. 

This blog post is posted with full permission from everyone involved. Thank you so much to every single person who joined the video call! 

Meeting and Teaching

On February 11th my actor John Diodato from “A Stroke Of Endurance”, and I met with the professor who screened my films and had me and my actors do presentations about disability like blindness and cerebral palsy, as it relates psychology and human behavior in for in Spring 2019 and Fall 2019. During the meeting we planned future screenings for Spring 2020 and the professor shared feedback her students wrote to me and John saying that their perceptions of disabilities changed. The students said they realized how independent disabled people can be and appreciated and admired our ability to talk about disability openly and honestly. One person even said they had never met a person with CP who could talk verbally before meeting me. They loved how my actor John approached life in general. 

On March 5th 2020 I was invited to show "Drama Sighted" as a teaching tool to talk with early childhood educators about the importance of privacy and consent for disabled students. I spoke about hidden and invisible disabilities in particular, like the eye condition Juvenile Macular Degeneration(sometimes called Stargardts) which the blind character Lisa has in "Drama Sighted" and about how chronic illnesses can also be invisible. The student teachers responded well and even allowed me to see how they write lesson plans for their future kindergarten students. 

More screenings are planned for the rest of March and April 2020! 

I have full permission to write this post from everyone involved. 

3 Presentations in one Big Day

On January 27th 2020,  I did 3 presentations about Crip Video Productions films with members of my cast. John Diodato and I did the first regular presentation together where we discussed Cerebral Palsy, IEPs, the Moro Reflex as it relates to Cerebral Palsy, and diabetes. One student asked how large my fanbase was. I told her about my various fans from India, The Netherlands, Canada, Italy and Ghana Africa. One person asked why some people with disabilities may be offended if they are called inspiring so I tried my best to explain “Inspiration P#rn” as a term and the difference between good and bad forms of inspiration.  One disabled student said he loved acting and was kind enough to offer his services to Crip Video Productions future projects. 

This disabled student ended up coming with us to film the first of 2 video recorded presentations for the TV show created by Professor Mary Lynn Navarro of Kingsborough Community College titled “Students TALK”. https://cripvideoproductions.tumblr.com/post/189108164086/video-interview https://cripvideoproductions.tumblr.com/post/189483544466/video-interview-2 

 Tim Snoha, John Diodato, Izabela Ginda, Betty Lewin and myself from “A Stroke Of Endurance” participated as well as Daniel Liriano from the films “Only Those Who Limp Allowed” and “Crips Not Creeps”. It was so nice to have my actors input. We had a mix of my disabled and able bodied performers presenting together in a panel with a documentary like style. Many of the questions were either disability or media related like what movies we liked, and how we met each other. Some of the actors talked about how they originally found my casting calls for my films on this blog. Tim Snoha mentioned “Inclusion In The Arts” which has since been disbanded and shut down unfortunately. 

During the second of the video recorded presentations for “Students Talk” we got into a more serious discussion of instances where my actors had been discriminated against for being disabled, instances where my able bodied performers saw disabled people they knew having their privacy violated, and what each performer thought of terms like “Differently Abled” and “Disabled”. Some of the answers surprised me, I learned a lot of good new things, and I was reminded how wonderful it was to work with these individuals! Some of the student audience shared their own disability related experiences and  really connected well with us.

Super special thanks to Mary Lynn Navarro, Tim Snoha, John Diodato, Izabela Ginda, Betty Lewin, and Daniel Liriano as well as everyone else involved in all the presenations for such a fabulous experience! 

See our tumblr page to view photos from that day. 

Please note: "Students Talk" has NOT been released yet. "Students TALK" is NOT owned by Crip Video Productions!