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28 ABILITY
10th Easterseals
Disability Film
Challenge Awards
Reaching a major milestone, the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge celebrated ten years of chal- lenging and highlighting disabled filmmaking talent. With over 600 films since its inception, the awards were held at the Cary Grant Theater at Sony Studios drawing celebrities like Jameela Jamil and Peter Farrelly. ABILITY Magazine’s George Kaplan interviewed some of the nominees and pre- senters in attendance on the orange carpet.
This year’s overarching theme, romance and passion for filmmaking, was definitely in the air. See- ing the disabled filmmaking community in full force and networking, it was hard not to feel inspired. Among the presenters were “Russian Doll” and the soon-to-be-released “Across the Spi- der-Verse” actor, Danielle Perez, Stephanie Nogueras of “Killing It” and actor and fashion designer, Natalie Trevonne.