CINEMA TOUCHING DISABILITY FILM FESTIVAL AND SHORT FILM COMPETITION
The Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival and Short Film Competition aims to change the picture of disability through film. The top cinematic celebration of disability in the state, the Festival features the best work of independent filmmakers from around the world, from documentaries to animated shorts to the avant-garde. The two-day event, usually held at the Alamo Drafthouse, provides a unique and entertaining way to positively and accurately view disability. The films with accurate and interesting representations of disability shown at this festival counter the negative stereotypes promoted by movies with demeaning, discriminatory and false portrayals of disability and people who have disabilities.
YOUR FILM CAN BE FEATURED AT THE CINEMA TOUCHING DISABILITY FILM FESTIVAL
You can submit your feature or short film about disability to be shown at the 2021 Cinema Touching Disability film festival. The three best films in this competition will be shown at our festival. We will also consider including any feature length disability film submitted through FilmFreeway in our program.
AWARDS
Awards for each division:
• First Place: $500.00 USD and commemorative plaque
•Second Place: $250.00 USD and commemorative plaque
• Third Place: $100.00 USD and commemorative plaque
Awards are announced and given at the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival
1. They are issued in US currency on a check from a bank in the the USA.
2. . The check will be mailed to a filmmaker if he or she cannot attend the festival.
3. The filmmaker must send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (CTD) to receive the award through the mail.
4. If the filmmaker has trouble receiving the award:
a. The CTD may be able to issue a payment through paypal
b. The filmmaker must contact the CTD within two weeks of hearing about the award to receive his or her payment this way.
IF THE FILMMAKER DOES NOT RECEIVE HIS OR HER AWARD
1. He or she has 60 days after learning of the award to contact the CTD .
2. The filmmaker cannot receive the award if he or she contacts the CTD after this deadline.
The top three winning films in each division will be featured at the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival. The films also have a chance to win the Audience Favorite Award.