03, Dec

The 1st UK Disability Film Festival Day
3rd December 2010

The UK’s leading disability arts and media organisation DASH, supported by ScreenWM, are proud to present the 1st UK Disability Film Festival on the International Day of Disabled People. All films are subtitled.

The Festival is additionally supported by Oska Bright, the Media Archive for Central England (MACE), The Eveson Charitable Trust, The Elmley Foundation and the BBC. Full details of all films are available on www.disabilityfilmfestival.eu or DASH’s website at www.dasharts.org

There are 4 screenings throughout the Day. Profits from ticket sales will go to Artshape (registered charity no 1023920)

11.30 – 1pm
The best of the learning disability festival Oska Bright. The programme of nine short films will be screened twice; the second time with the audio description played in the auditorium.
£2

2 – 4pm
The first national screening of the UKFC funded Disability short film project MAGIC HOUR; plus a selection of other shorts from around the UK and the world.
£2

5-7pm
The 1986 BBC film Raspberry Ripple, starring Faye Dunaway.
Free but tickets must be obtained from the box office in advance.

8 – 10pm
A selection of archive film from the MACE featuring The Leicester Cripples Guild of the 1920s and a fantastic short film about the Shortest Woman in the world who lived in Bromsgrove and drove an adapted Mini. Most of the films in the MACE collection on show here are from the ATV News Collection from between 1955 and 1975.
£2

11.30AM - 08:00PM | £2.00