For more than 30 years, the Superfest Disability Film Festival has celebrated cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse and engaging lens.
All UCSF students, staff and faculty are invited to join the UCSF Disability Resource Center for a screening of short films followed by a facilitated discussion. Panel discussion will be moderated by Shaina Ghuraya, Director of the Superfest Disability Film Festival and will include Ajani "AJ" Murray, professional disabled actor and Superfest Jury Member.
Accessibility: UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact [email protected] as soon as possible.
Register: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/EDFF1r
UCSF Superfest Showcase Lineup (60 min)
- Renegades: Untold Stories of Black Americans (15 min): Renegades is a new digital series of documentary shorts showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities. Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi, and made by a team of D/deaf and disabled filmmakers, the project is designed to increase public knowledge of disability history, and encourage cross-cultural understanding between non-disabled people and those with disabilities – who make up more than 1 in 4 adults in America today.
- Audio Description (5 mins): After making a wish on his birthday, a lonely visually impaired man finds his world turned upside down by an unexpected encounter.
- Rising Tides, Raising Voices (15 min): The Pacific region is among the most impacted in the world by climate change. As part of a legacy of systemic oppression, Indigenous Pacific Islanders with disabilities are particularly at risk. Because they are less likely to be formally employed, their livelihoods depend on fishing and farming – which have been significantly affected by climate change. During disasters, the structural barriers that Pacific Islanders with disabilities face every day – like the lack of accessible information and transportation – can become a death sentence. Faced with the urgency of increasing disasters, disabled grassroots activists across the Pacific are championing disability-inclusive climate action. It’s a fight not just against nature, but against a world that often overlooks people with disabilities. Rising Tides, Raising Voices is a call for intersectional, inclusive, community-led solutions to the encroaching global crisis.
- Little Monsters (14 min): Today, visually impaired teenager Erwan can't wait to get to school to declare his love for Agathe. Unfortunately, he first has to share a medical transport van with David, a wheelchair-bound suck-up, who tries everyday to make friends with Erwan, quite unsuccesfully. When David tries to make sure they never arrive, war is declared.