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Après le SuperFest de Berkeley, on parle de nous en Californie!

Berkeley draws filmmakers from Austria, Australia, Canada and throughout U.S. for animated discussions with largest ever Superfest audience, June 4 and 5

Several filmmakers from abroad joined their U.S. peers for the 30th Superfest, the world's longest running international disability film festival on Friday and Saturday, culminating in an awards ceremony Saturday evening. The record turnout of an estimated 200 disability artists, advocates and cineastes were quite active participants in the Question & Answer sessions held by the director, producer and/or stars of winning entries.

Some of the exchanges between the local disability community and the visiting filmmakers included: observations about the different types of "gazes" people with disabilities are subjected to from the public, prompted by the Austrian film, Portrait of a Disabled Man; an intense discussion about how and why to portray the textures of sound in film, as exemplified by the cutting edge winner from Australia, White Sound; curiosity about the unusual but successful use of rock music, humor and a "bucket list" to honor the life of a Montrealer who died young from his progressive disability, featured in My Friend Claude; a spirited international exchange of advocacy tactics to advance urban accessibility, prompted by Je Me Souviens -- Excluded from the Montreal Subway since 1966; and substantial interest in the class action court case that forced the city and county of San Francisco to divert some funds from Laguna Honda Hospital to helping its residents who want to move to accessible places in the community, as captured in the documentary, Far from Home. Superfest is an annual event of the organizationwww.CultureDisabilityTalent.org. (archived 6/15/10)