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Sunday, January 31, 2021

NBCUniversal pledges to include actors with disabilities in auditions for all film, TV projects

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From The Associated Press : In the picture, actress Eileen Grubba appears in a scene from "New Amsterdam." NBCUniversal said Jan...

Saturday, January 30, 2021

"CODA," Sundance film about sole hearing member of Deaf New England family who discovers she has a talent for singing, purchased by Apple for record-breaking $25 million

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From The Hollywood Reporter : Apple has nabbed the rights to Sundance drama CODA from writer-director Sian Heder in a deal worth $25 mill...

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Oscar-worthy ‘Sound of Metal’ a ‘wake-up’ to Deaf culture

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From Variety : Amazon’s “ Sound of Metal ” is a piece of terrific filmmaking — and its achievements are even more impressive considering H...

Sunday, November 15, 2020

"Run" on Hulu, an excellent thriller starring wheelchair user Kiera Allen, moves disability representation in positive direction

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Review by Beth A. Haller, Media dis&dat Note: “Run” was originally slated for theatrical release in May, but when the Covid-19 pandem...

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Entertainers discuss disability representation in Hollywood

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From The Associated Press . In this combination photo, Marlee Matlin, from left, arrives at the 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 19t...

Sunday, September 27, 2020

BBC America’s ‘Crip Tales’ features the talent of people with disabilities

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from BBC America : BBC America has announced in September that October 1 would be the world premiere date for CripTales – a collection of...

Saturday, July 25, 2020

‘Rising Phoenix’ – Netflix to broadcast ground-breaking Paralympic documentary August 26

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From the IPC . The photo features Italy's Bebe Vio, one of the athletes featured in 'Rising Phoenix.' Featuring Paralympi...

Netflix orders two documentaries about Deaf community in America

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from Deadline : Netflix has ordered Deaf U and Audible , two documentaries centered around the deaf community in the U.S. Dea...

Monday, June 22, 2020

Kayla Cromer: ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’ inspired me to go public about being on the autism spectrum

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from Hollywood Life : Kayla Cromer plays Matilda in the series ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.’ Kayla spoke with HL about autism represen...

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Disability advocates fear losing fight for inclusion in post-pandemic Hollywood

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From Forbes . In the picture, Tobias Forrest, who plays Patrick in Daruma, on set, filming the trailer for the film. For almost a year...

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

People with disabilities fear pandemic will worsen medical biases

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From Joe Shapiro at NPR . In the picture is Angel Miles. She says her PhD and her job as a health policy analyst aren't enough to wi...

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BA Haller: Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.

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