Experiencing Interruptions?

Disabled AF

Jess is moving out, and her friends Marsha and Imani are down to help, until they realize they have a traitor in their midst

  • Cashmere Jasmine
    Director
  • Ariel Baska
    Writer
  • Ophira C
    Writer
  • Cashmere Jasmine
    Writer
  • Cashmere Jasmine
    Producer
  • Ariel Baska
    Producer
  • Jessica Jones Mikayla
    Key Cast
    "Jess"
  • Marsha Elle
    Key Cast
    "Marsha"
  • Cashmere Jasmine
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Comedy, Experimental
  • Completion Date:
    April 7, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Sony FX9
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Cashmere Jasmine

Cashmere Jasmine is a Director - Writer Afro-Caribbean 1st generation American and ex-finance girl. While doing finance, she produced two short films that went to over a dozen festivals and garnered over 1.2 million views. Since then she’s worked in music video, independent film, and short-form digital commercial. Cashmere crafts genre-bending media that revolve around deconstructing perceptions through lenses of class, race, disability, and even criminality. In 2021, Cashmere was in the inaugural class of Amy Aniobi’s TRIBE, a mentorship program for TV writers, the Black Magic Collective’s All Access Fellowship, and RespectAbility’s Entertainment Lab fellow. She also received the Sundance Uprise grant for her short film, Oreo which became a 2022 Slamdance Unstoppable festival selection. Her feature ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’, about an irresponsible dialysis patient, earned her a spot in the Sundance Accessible Futures Intensive to workshop. Her film for Disney’s Launchpad has earned two NAACP award nominations and is now streaming on Disney+. Cashmere is currently directing and producing an episode for PBS American Masters: Renegades. Renegades is a series shining light on incredible American’s with disabilities available fall of 2024.

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Director Statement

As a disabled artist, it's proven difficult to create stories that center on a non-physical antagonist such as internalized ableism. Having created this film for the Easterseals in a week with a crew behind and in front of the camera of disabled creatives, we all resonated with the demon we all carry with us. Disabled AF is my experimentation creating an internalized antagonist that affects a group of friends with varying visibility of their disabilities and thusly different relationships with their disability. A meditation on a complicated connection and how it affects how we show up socially and how we can or can't support one another.