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A Note from Jim LeBrecht

Submitted by D-MAP on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:54
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To my filmmaker friends, please read, especially if you are at Sundance

By James LeBrecht
Founder and Lead Sound Designer
Berkeley Sound Artists

The Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's lodge is located in a historical building where there is no elevator to take you to the lodge. I have been trying to convince the festival for well over 7 years to fix this issue.

The festival's best solution is this: "Sundance Institute works to make each of its venues physically accessible for all Festivalgoers. All Festival venues and theatres are ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accessible. For reservations or more information, contact Sundance Institute at (435) 658-3456.

The Filmmaker Lodge, housed in the Park City Elks Building, falls under historical preservation standards and does not have an elevator. However, Sundance Institute does have a Stair-Trac on site that meets ADA requirements. A 24-hour notice is needed and appreciated for patrons needing access to the Stair-Trac. For additional information on this, please contact Sundance Institute at (435) 658-3456"
 

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___ YEARS OF A NONDISABLED LIFE IS WORTH ___ YEARS OF A DISABLED LIFE

Submitted by Susan Henderson on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 07:06
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On 7.15.09, the New York Times Magazine published Dr. Peter Singer's article on rationing health care in the US. Unfortunately, Singer's notion of rationing is based on the "worth" of individuals with disabilities when compared to those without disabilities. A NYT graphic accompanying the article was particularly worrying.
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Welcome to D-MAP

Submitted by Julia Epstein on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 21:44
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We established the Disability & Media Alliance Project (D-MAP) to work in alliance with the media industry to change inaccurate public perceptions of disability and replace them with informed and realistic stories and images. We want to broaden the range of popular ideas about disability to go beyond the usual suspects: condescending stares for tragic lives on the one extreme, and admiring awe for superhuman transcendence of obstacles on the other. People with disabilities are neither inspirational heroes nor social parasites, neither courageous underdogs nor charity cases. We are ordinary people with ordinary and highly varied lives. Like everyone else, we'd like to see our lives depicted in the news and in entertainment.

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