Chicago – An incisive look at disability perceptions at the movies is on tap at the Midwest Film Festival with “Code of the Freaks” on June 7, 2022. The film is directed by Salome Chasnoff and co-written by Aly Patsava. For ticket info, click Mff First Tuesday.
Code of the Freaks’ at the Midwest Film Festival, June 7th, 2022
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“Code of the Freaks” is a social, academic and cultural look at how Hollywood has treated the subject and character of disabled people in the movies. Director Salome Chasnoff assembled a wide range of expertise from the activist and persons-with-disabilities sphere of influence, opening up discussion on the perceptions in the movies versus the realities of everyday life in the disabled world. The documentary will follow a screening of the short doc “Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories,” which was produced by “Code” creators Chasnoff and Susan Nussbaum.
“Code of the...
Code of the Freaks’ at the Midwest Film Festival, June 7th, 2022
Photo credit: MidwestFilm.com
“Code of the Freaks” is a social, academic and cultural look at how Hollywood has treated the subject and character of disabled people in the movies. Director Salome Chasnoff assembled a wide range of expertise from the activist and persons-with-disabilities sphere of influence, opening up discussion on the perceptions in the movies versus the realities of everyday life in the disabled world. The documentary will follow a screening of the short doc “Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories,” which was produced by “Code” creators Chasnoff and Susan Nussbaum.
“Code of the...
- 6/6/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Reservoir Docs has acquired the documentary “The Right to Be Forgotten,” by Romanian director Adina Sădeanu, which is being pitched this week during the Co-Production Forum of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Variety has learned. The company has secured worldwide sales rights apart from Romania, Moldova and Benelux.
Through a mix of investigation and observation, “The Right to Be Forgotten” tells the story of three women deeply wounded by years-long online attacks, harassment and death threats, who each respond to the attacks in their own way. Pic is produced by Axis Media Production, in co-production with Squarefish (Belgium) and HBO Europe. It’s currently in production and slated to be delivered in summer 2022.
“I started this film from the idea that the virtual world impacts our lives in ways that we don’t yet fully understand,” said Sădeanu. “One major influence comes through cyber violence and private life violations. Going beyond...
Through a mix of investigation and observation, “The Right to Be Forgotten” tells the story of three women deeply wounded by years-long online attacks, harassment and death threats, who each respond to the attacks in their own way. Pic is produced by Axis Media Production, in co-production with Squarefish (Belgium) and HBO Europe. It’s currently in production and slated to be delivered in summer 2022.
“I started this film from the idea that the virtual world impacts our lives in ways that we don’t yet fully understand,” said Sădeanu. “One major influence comes through cyber violence and private life violations. Going beyond...
- 6/30/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 in a four-part series on disability and horror.]
“Watching horror films is a disabling experience,” Angela M. Smith, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies for the University of Utah and author of the book “Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema,” said. “It’s a controlled encounter with discomfort, with the vulnerability of our minds and bodies to images and suggestions that opens us to unwilled transformations.”
The horror film revels in the world of deformity and grotesqueness and, to a disabled viewer, that can be confusing in how relatable it is. For many, to be disabled is also to look different, so how does a person with a disability approach the horror genre when the presented thing to fear is themselves?
Smith said people weren’t ready for “Freaks” in the 1930s, and she’s absolutely correct. “Freaks,” for better and worse, remains one of the only U.S. features to have a predominately disabled...
“Watching horror films is a disabling experience,” Angela M. Smith, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies for the University of Utah and author of the book “Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema,” said. “It’s a controlled encounter with discomfort, with the vulnerability of our minds and bodies to images and suggestions that opens us to unwilled transformations.”
The horror film revels in the world of deformity and grotesqueness and, to a disabled viewer, that can be confusing in how relatable it is. For many, to be disabled is also to look different, so how does a person with a disability approach the horror genre when the presented thing to fear is themselves?
Smith said people weren’t ready for “Freaks” in the 1930s, and she’s absolutely correct. “Freaks,” for better and worse, remains one of the only U.S. features to have a predominately disabled...
- 10/6/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
"I would argue that it enhances your ability to enjoy the movie." Kino Lorber has debuted an official trailer for a cinema history documentary called Code of the Freaks, which recently premiered as the "Opening Night" film at the ReelAbilities Film Festival in NYC earlier in the year. The doc film closely examines the representation of disabled people in Hollywood movies, and tries to turn the tables and "dares to imagine a cinematic landscape that centers the voices of disabled people". Taking its title from Tod Browning's classic film (Freaks), this radical reframing of how characters with disabilities are represented looks at a century of Hollywood favorites with a fresh perspective. Today's disability activists imagine a cinematic landscape that takes people with disabilities seriously. This looks like a very important doc, made by the very people who are speaking out about this issue and working to improve representation in Hollywood.
- 5/6/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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