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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 provides a unique and entertaining way to positively and accurately view disability. 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.
You can submit your short film about disability to be shown at the 2024 Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival.
AWARDS
Awards for each division:
First Place: $500.00 USD
Second Place: $250.00 USD
Third Place: $100.00 USD
Awards are announced and given at the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival. They are issued in US currency on a check from a bank in the the USA. The check will be mailed to a filmmaker if he or she cannot attend the Festival. The filmmaker must send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (CTD) to receive the award through the mail. If the filmmaker has trouble receiving the award: CTD may be able to issue a payment through Paypal. The filmmaker must contact CTD within two weeks of hearing about the award to receive payment this way.
IF THE FILMMAKER DOES NOT RECEIVE HIS OR HER AWARD
They have 60 days after learning of the award to contact CTD. The filmmaker cannot receive the award if he or she contacts 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.