Feeling Through - Audience Award, Best Narrative Short: PDXFF 2020

Feeling Through' is the first film to feature a DeafBlind actor in a lead role. It’s a coming of age story that follows Tereek, a teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash when he encounters Artie, a DeafBlind man in need of help getting home. What begins as an awkward meeting between strangers, quickly becomes an intimate bond between friends, and a journey that forever changes Tereek.

Feeling Through

A teen-in-need's reluctant act of kindness toward a DeafBlind man becomes a night-long journey, creating a bond between them that gives the teen hope for the future.

Lauren McCullough had barely graduated high school when she was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer. A cure was elusive and so was funding for research into a disease that only affected a few hundred kids every year. But Lauren was unstoppable. With a blog, a bucket list and her inspiring voice, she launched a campaign to raise money and awareness about pediatric cancer. Lauren McCullough is The Not-Dying Girl

The Not-Dying Girl

Lauren McCullough uses a blog, a bucket list and her inspirational voice to campaign for childhood cancer awareness and to fight her own disease.

Sam is a boy with epilepsy so desperate to feel like a regular kid, he goes to prom knowing that the lights will make him have a seizure. By filmmaker with epilepsy Miles Levin, Under the Lights serves to be of the few authentic, empathetic representations of epilepsy in cinema, an effort to fight the brutal stigma a community of 1 in 26 faces every day.

Under the Lights

San is a boy with epilepsy so desperate to feel like a regular kid, he goes to prom knowing that the lights will make him have a seizure.

A new student enter a nondescript highschool, his name is Sam and he is deaf. He must overcome the conflict he faces, which is how to communicate with his classmates.

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