Announcement from Crip Video Productions Producer

Crip Video Productions is thrilled to announce that our producer Dylan Rothbein has been accepted to Rabbinical School. From Dylan Rothbein Liberty Coalitan "

Dylan Rothbein Liberty Coalition is elated to announce that our founder and director Dylan Rothbein was finally accepted to Rabbinical School. It’s been a long hard road and we are honored by this news and we look forward to growing along with Dylan in the future, religiously, spiritually and creatively because we believe Dylan is breaking down glass ceilings for disabled people to take on religious leadership positions. We know that Dylan will have big shoes to fill as she embarks on her journey of becoming a distinguished leader in the Jewish world.

Our director Margot also gave a speech on accessible teaching and screened "Drama Sighted" yesterday. '

World Cerebral Palsy Day 2023

Today is World Cerebral Palsy Day. Happy World Cerebral Palsy Day 2023 from Crip Video Productions! On October 2nd I(Margot Cole) gave a talk to a bunch of education majors about disability advocacy. We discussed how advocacy can impact someone’s life. We discussed the meaning of internalized ableism. We discussed “A Stroke Of Endurance” and the character Ava’s anxiety which lead to a discussion of how mental health and physical health are inter related. Some students shared their disability experience of listening to their body. We discussed best practices for paraprofessionals. On October 5th, I I(Margot Cole) gave a talk to a biology class involving disability and populations and screened the film “Crips Not Creeps” and the audience was very interested in what inspired me to write the film “Crips Not Creeps” particularly the false accusation plot. We have had more production meetings with Mary Lynn Navarro and Dylan Rothbein about our upcoming documentary “What The Body Believes”. This post is posted with permission.

Disability Pride update on Julesworks

Crip Video Productions updates were included in JulesworksFollies at 2:16:02 into the stream recording here https://www.youtube.com/live/myP24bZJHHQ?feature=share More updates to follow shortly.

Happy ADA anniversary 2023!

Today Crip Video Productions celebrates the anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Many of the actors that work with Crip Video Productions have Cerebral Palsy, and other disabilities including myself and the ADA allows us to be fully accommodated on set and in daily life. In many ways Crip Video Productions would not exist without the ADA. Today we honor activists that are no longer with us like Neil Jacobson and Judy Heumann who were involved with the passage and those who are still with us like Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, who crawled up the steps of the capitol in the "Capital Crawl".Today we are grateful for the freedom of the Americans With Disabilities Act and so so thankful to the people who fought to have it passed! Happy Disability Pride Month! Please continue to support Crip Video Productions https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/ and Teatro Paraguas this ADA anniversary! We had a production meeting about our documentary PSC CUNY collaboration "What The Body Believes" co directed by Professor Mary Lynn Navarro today as well.

News from Crip Video Productions Producer

The Producer and audio describer of our full length Crip Video Productions/CUNY PSC project co directed by Mary Lynn Navarro is hosting a number of fully accessible online classes! Dylan Rothbein Liberty Coalition is now hosting online classes via Zoom in various subject areas mostly pertaining to music, media and Judaic studies. Dylan Rothbein is a jack of all trades, musician and filmmaker, and disability studies scholar. See here for class types and prices https://dylanrothbein.weebly.com/classes.html Sign up NOW by emailing dylanrothbein@gmail.com

Review by Dylan Rothbein for Disability Pride Month!

“Best Practices in Action by Dylan Rothbein When it comes to best practices in media and accessibility, which is my main concern with Dylan Rothbein Liberty Coalition, too many companies have decided to ignore disability or tokenizing disabled in their brand which is not accessibility or social model of disability. There is one company however that deserves to be celebrated for their leadership and best practices which is Crip Video Productions. Crip Video Productions has put out 4 short films which showcase disabled actors in their natural habitats and each actor get accommodations. Crip Video Productions follows the ADA to the letter which is a best practice. Crip Video Productions exists to make sure everyone has value from conception to natural death. Crip Video Productions has also partnered with many organizations like Students Unlimited at Kingsborough, Teatro Paraguas, and Dylan Rothbein Liberty Coalition, and embodies Nothing About Us Without Us because everyone has a disability or is an allay. I was hired by this company to produce “What The Body Believes” a collaboration between Crip Video Productions and CUNY. Crip Video Productions also conducts ethical business practices every day because our director makes sure everyone is compensated in some way. So many times disabled people are exploited but not at Crip Video Productions. This is why it is an honor to be affiliated with this company which is disability oriented, stands for free speech and free expression, and knows every life matters. Crip Video Productions excels and employs best practices at all stages, our director makes sure shoot locations are accessible so we can contribute our skills as human beings not just because we are disabled. In casting our casting director sees the potential in every actor regardless of experience because Crip Video Productions believes in opportunity and responsibility. In post production Crip Video Productions excels at audio description, with audio description on each production and screen reader access so I am honored to work there as a blind person and I know that no matter how impaired I get I will always have a place at Crip Video Productions. Crip Video Productions is a role model for the disabled because many disabled people feel like they can’t start a business but our director is also a writer and editor with Cerebral Palsy, which teaches us you can succeed with a TBI. ”

References Cole, Margot. “Crip Video Productions” 2023 www.cripvideoproductions.com “Dylan Rothbein Linkedin” 2023 https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-rothbein-a86140147 Cole, Margot. ”3 presentations in a single day!” Crip Video Productions 2020. https://cripvideoproductions.tumblr.com/post/190517942026/3-presentations-in-a-single-day “Students Unlimited” https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/access-ability/contact.html “Teatro Paraguas” teatroparaguasnm.org This is a review of Crip Video Productions by Dylan Rothbein posted with permission. Dylan Rothbein is the producer on a new Crip Video Productions film project which is a collaboration. Happy Disability Pride Month/Disability History Month from Crip Video Productions! Dylan Rothbein Liberty Coalition is seperate from Crip Video Productions. Crip Video Productions is collaborating with PSC CUNY via generous donation on "What The Body Believes" co directed by Mary Lynn Navarro. I(Margot Cole) also wrote biology essays that combine biology with disability studies themes. This one covers Cerebral Palsy, the Moro Reflex, and neurodiversity. https://medium.com/@dylanrothbein/the-moro-reflex-guest-post-by-margot-3d9ccc4758b2 This essay was generously consulted on by Dylan Rothbein

Biology and Disability Studies

I(Margot Cole) wrote 2 biology essays that combine biology with disability studies themes. https://medium.com/@dylanrothbein/how-does-mammal-fetal-development-relate-to-developmental-disability-guest-post-by-margot-8d52475fdaec https://medium.com/@dylanrothbein/how-does-natural-selection-select-for-disability-and-neurodiversity-guest-post-by-margot-903381d7b411 The essays cover Cerebral Palsy, Autism, diabetes, dyspraxia, hemophila, epliepsy, and Down Syndrome.