Check out this opening statement by Cathy Kudlick, Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, host of Superfest! This opening statement has open captions and audio description. For an ASL translation, select the next video. Please double check which film screening you are accessing - this is found at the top of your screen. There is one version with audio description and one without. To access the screening with audio description, <a href="https://watch.eventive.org/superfest/play/613926c24c8923002939ddb5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">visit this link</a>. To access the screening without it, <a href="https://watch.eventive.org/superfest/play/6139211b7afeba006cbb8c89" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">visit this link</a>.

Superfest Opening Statement

This is an ASL translation of Cathy Kudlick's opening statement. For the statement itself, visit the "film" before this.

Superfest Opening Statement - American Sign Language

When everyone’s laughing at you for being a lousy hunter, you’re in the woods being chased by a monster, and you only have one leg, you only have one choice: fight back! [Poster alt text: Poster for “Aim Straight” featuring an animated child aiming a bow. He is clouded by black shadows. Text reads the film title and credits in white. / Still alt text: An animated child stands in a forest, shadowed by figures talking about him. He looks nervous.]

Aim Straight

What can we learn from the most despised insects about lockdown and embodiment? This film celebrates the ingenuity of a disabled filmmaker who is grappling with the pandemic and working with the actors he had access to. [Poster alt text: Poster for “An Apparition” featuring a cockroach climbing on a wall. / Alt text: Image of a cockroach.] To learn more about this film, check out our <a href="https://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/superfest-spotlight-qa-creator" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Superfest Spotlight: A Q&amp;A with the creator of An Apparition</a>.

An Apparition

A high school football player is shocked to discover that the new girl in school is the same girl he fell in love with at a summer dance camp. [Poster alt text: Poster for “Best Summer Ever” featuring a collage of characters from the film with drawings of yellow sunflowers on top of yellow paneling. Text reads the film title. / Still alt text: A black man and a white woman in a wheelchair sit are outside, smiling at each other.]

Best Summer Ever

A young dancer struggles with her bi-cultural identity when she meets a confident young Deaf drummer who stirs up old conflicted feelings about growing up hearing in a Deaf family. [Poster alt text: Poster for “CODA” featuring a Black woman dancing in a studio with a blue hue to it. Film title is in blue and credits are in black. / Still alt text: Image of a Black woman bathed in red light. She holds up her hands as she signs something.]

CODA

During the zombie apocalypse, one survivor finds a dead end that will hopefully lead him to salvation. (This project was created with over half of the cast and crew being comprised of people with disabilities, including the writer, all of the cast, and most of the producers.) [Poster alt text: Poster for "Dead End Drive" featuring the film title, award laurels, and a man looking toward the camera with a scared look on his face. / Still alt text: Still from “Dead End Drive” featuring a scruffy man in a neighborhood at sunrise. The sky is purple.]

Dead End Drive

A dramedy about a Deaf loner in his lake-condo as he takes on the challenge of grilling up the perfect hamburger and confronting his traumatic past, all while using witty, passionate ASL to persuade a trophy deer. [Poster alt text: Poster for Hamburger Airplane. Text is in blue with a red drop shadow over a picture of a mounted deer head. / Still alt text: Still from “Hamburger Airplane." A white man in a blue apron looks up at an airplane flying overhead.]

Hamburger Airplane

As yet another superstorm bears down on a desperate, weary city in the year 2040, a young blind woman seeks to redeem her winning sweepstakes ticket for a better life in a low Earth orbit paradise. [Poster alt text: Poster for “Here Comes Frieda,” with the three main characters overlaid with various levels of transparency. The character in the middle is edited to look like a hologram, and the whole poster has a technological and futuristic aspect to it. / Still alt text: Still from “Here Comes Frieda." A blind woman faces a hologram of another woman.]

Here Comes Frieda

In this meditation on longing and savoring of a body considered off-limits, an autistic student filmmaker at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland takes on the most solid yet ephemeral sense, touch. [Poster alt text: Still from “If You Could Touch Me Now” featuring three shots of the same pair of hands rubbing against each other on white sheets.]

If You Could Touch Me Now

This short documentary explores the challenges of being young and chronically ill in a carefully curated online culture. A real life "superhero", a YouTuber and a camgirl explain why they choose to share -or hide- important parts of who they are online. [Poster alt text: Poster for “ill, actually” featuring an illustration of someone in a wheelchair posing for a selfie, drawn in black and red. The poster’s text is also in black and red, with the tagline “Online you can be anyone. Why be ill?” / Still alt text: Outside and bathed in red light, three Black young people smile for a selfie.]

ill, actually

When a worker falls to his death at a care home, it appears to be a terrible accident. But when a detective questions a young man with Down syndrome spotted at the scene, they uncover a crime more shocking than anyone imagined. CONTENT WARNING: Sexual abuse, murder, and other forms of violence. View with caution. [Poster alt text: Poster for “Innocence” featuring the three main characters, a white woman and two white men, one who has Down syndrome. Their faces are over a dead body on the ground. Text reads the film name in red and credits in white. / Still alt text: A woman with Down syndrome clasps a hand over her mouth as she stares at someone in front of her.]

Innocence

In this public service announcement like no other, Cam's hungover, lost, vomit-stained, dealing with a very rude visitor, and totally in the dark. On the other hand, er, claw, she has an advantage that many Aussies can only dream about. Audio description is embedded into this film. [Poster alt text: Text on a black screen reads “Lobster, a red title reads lobster.”]

Lobster

Ben, a spritely young autistic man has a bright future. Except when it comes to his boss. And finding love. Will he bloom beyond the wallflowers? [Poster alt text: Poster for “Not a Wallflower” featuring three stills from the film of the three characters, a white man and two white women, one of which has Down syndrome. They are all wearing green and yellow and are in a plant store. Text reads the film name in pink cursive with the film credits in green. / Still alt text: A young woman and a young man sit next to each other in a plant shop, smiles on their faces. The woman has Down syndrome.]

Not a Wallflower

When Miles tries to rejoin his geeky crew at a cosplay convention, Anita is having none of it. But before she can send him packing, the devious Lord Moro ambushes the crew, forcing these old friends to reunite in an epic, cosplay "blaster" battle. [Poster alt text: Poster for “Pew! Pew! Pew!” featuring a collage of three stills from the film, where the characters are covered in neon red light. Text reads “Pew! Pew! Pew!: A sci-fi cosplay action-comedy” in blue Star Trek font. Film credits are in white. / Still alt text: A young white woman in a wheelchair stares off camera. She is wearing a white shirt and a dark jacket.]

Pew! Pew! Pew!

In the 1980s disabled terror group Reasonable Adjustment carried out a campaign of violence to gain rights - or did they? [Poster alt text: Black and white photograph of a wheelchair on fire in the middle of a street with a crowd around it.] To learn more about this film, check out our <a href="https://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/superfest-spotlight-qa-filmmaker-reasonable-adjustment" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Superfest Spotlight: A Q&amp;A with the Filmmaker of Reasonable Adjustment</a>.

Reasonable Adjustment

Jessie and Brian, a young Deaf couple, recently discovered they are about to become parents. Their neighborhood coffee shop thrums with everything left unsaid, while they unearth new ways to communicate. [Poster alt text: Poster for “See Through” featuring a Black woman sitting at a table. She wears a yellow shirt and has short curly hair. Text reads the film name in yellow with the film credits in white. / Still alt text: A Black woman with short curly hair and wearing a yellow shirt sits at a table, staring out a window.]

See Through

Inspired by the balcony performers of Wuhan and Lombardy during the 2020 pandemic, Sign Night is a poetic conversation between two star crossed lovers in British sign language projected onto buildings in a rugged urban landscape. [Poster alt text: Poster for “Sign Night” with two projections of people reaching up toward the sky from on top of buildings. Multicolor lights emanate out from them. Text reads “Sign Night” and the film credits. / Still alt text: Projections of two women signing are superimposed over buildings.]

Sign Night

A 37-year-old woman with Down syndrome runs away from home and embarks on journey from Kalgoorlie to Perth. [Poster alt text: Illustration of a woman with Down syndrome wearing fun patterns and a vest with patches on it. Text reads: “Sparkles” on a purple sparkly background. / Still alt text: A woman with Down syndrome wearing fun patterns and a vest with patches on it sits next to a drag queen on the side of the road.]

Sparkles

An artistic response to many of the comments posted on social media that undermine the Black Lives Matter Movement, this arresting film integrates The Rationale Method of audio description using sound effects and spoken word. Audio description is embedded into this film. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRuC6GzoY9P-_zUWAvPYboFqWc6lLQ3tpdP1TIPhTuPDoC-PRIvpnXPBoSVEjf-N_kr-CyYV5yTjhdd/pub" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">To access the transcript as it is not included in the captions click here. </a> [Poster alt text: Poster for “Still a Slave” featuring a Black man holding a lit candle at the end of a rope. His face is lit up by the firelight. Text reads the film title and credits in white. / Still alt text: A Black man holding a lit candle at the end of a rope dances on a beach.]

Still a Slave

After a bad break-up, Jess focuses on rebuilding her life and her self-esteem. Dating someone new might help, but what if it all goes wrong? Only one way to find out. [Poster alt text: Poster for “What If?” featuring a stuffed animal pug wearing a unicorn costume. Text reads the film title and credits in black. / Still alt text: Title still from “What If” featuring a white woman looking in her closet. Her room is decorated with rainbow lights. Text reads the film title.]

What If?

What does it mean to be a man in an Aboriginal family when your brother is disabled and your father is cruel? And how do you reconcile your brother’s clear connections to land and spirit when your father wants him, and quite possibly you, dead? [Poster alt text: Poster for “Yulubidyi - Until the End,” featuring an Australian Aboriginal man walking through a burning field. Text reads the film title, credits, and award laurels. / Still alt text: Outside, a young Aboriginal man leans over where his brother is lying down on a platform.] To learn more about this film, check out our <a href="https://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/superfest-spotlight-qa-filmmaker-yulubidyi-%E2%80%93-until-end" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Superfest Spotlight: A Q&amp;A with the filmmaker of Yulubidyi – Until The End</a>.

Yulubidyi - Until the End

Part film, part video game, part history lesson, this whimsical animated choose-your-own adventure takes us into the world of ‘the Goze’, blind female travelling performers of medieval Japan. Produced by Extant, the UK’s leading company of visually impaired artists, Flight Path shares how access can be both innovative and fully integrated. Join this meditative reflection on travel, blindness and migration. Audio description is embedded into this experience. This is labeled as a "livestream" because to access it you must visit an external site. To access it, click "watch now" or <a href="https://flightpaths.extant.org.uk/" target="_blank">visit this link</a>. Poster alt text: A digitally animated drawing of a blind Japanese woman walking in an open landscape. She is in side profile, wearing a purple and light blue kimono patterned with orange flowers, and holding a stick. The background is shaded in muted browns and greens, and a pale yellow sun looms in the horizon.

Flight Paths

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