Cinema Touching Disability

Rules for Submission

Films must be received before 12:00 a.m. on July 31, 2020. The following requirements are mandatory for all submissions.

1. Each film must be between three (3) and twenty (20) minutes long. The length of the film does not include the credits,, it only refers to the content of the film.

2. The film may NOT have been previously submitted to the Cinema Touching Disability Short Film Competition.
3. The film must either be about, star, or be made by a person with a disability. A disability is an impairment that limits a major life activity. Disabilities include, but are not limited to, blindness, deafness, paraplegia, quadriplegia, autism, cerebral palsy and dwarfism.
4. Films must not be demeaning or discriminatory about disability or people with disabilities.
5. Filmmakers are urged to add open captions for the sake of accessibility. Open captions describe the dialogue and background noises for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Judgment Criteria

Entries will be judged based on the following criteria:

1. How creative is the representation of disability in the film?
2. How well did the film avoid using stereotypes about disability?
3. How engaging and interesting was the film?
4. How original was the film or how well did it raise any new perspectives about disability?
5. What was the quality of the lighting/cinematography/sound?
6. What were your overall feelings about the film?