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IDA Teach Out: Accessibility & Disability Justice - Part 1

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  • Woman sitting in an electric wheelchair, wearing a green jacket and long black dress.
    Kyla Harris, Speaker
  • Woman standing near a tree. She has long brown hair and is wearing a blue top.
    Lindsey Dryden, Speaker
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Join Emmy®-winning filmmaker Lindsey Dryden and filmmaker & writer Kyla Harris in a workshop on Disability Justice, disabled-led creativity, and accessibility in the film and TV industry. Both Kyla and Lindsey use the lens of intersectionality to prioritize stories by and about LGBTQ+ folks, women, BIPOC, and D/deaf & disabled people. Expanding on Disability Justice principles, this first of two FWD-Doc Teach Outs will focus on disabled-led creative strategies and intentional accessibility within the non-fiction media space, designed to usher in lasting equity and foster community. This session is open to media-makers with disabilities and allies. ASL and CART Captioning will be provided.

 

Event Participants

    Woman sitting in an electric wheelchair, wearing a green jacket and long black dress.

    Kyla Harris

    Kyla Harris is a filmmaker, writer, and activist who applies an intersectional approach to all of her work. She advises and supports inclusivity in the industry, as chair of the Disability Screen Advisory Group for the British Film Institute (BFI) and a British Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) member. She works to integrate the principles of disability justice in her personal and professional life and regularly gives workshops on the subject. Along with Filmmakers With Disabilities (FWD-Doc) she co-wrote A Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility: Changing the Narrative of Disability in Documentary Film in association with Doc Society and Netflix as well as The FWD-Doc Engagement Pack in association with Doc Society and the BFI. In 2022 she joined the founding members of FWD-Doc as an Advising Member. Her short film It’s Personal, which she co-directed and wrote, was commissioned by the Film Video Umbrella and is their most viewed film to date. She co-created and is currently co-writing a comedy-drama series with Roughcut TV for the BBC.

    Woman standing near a tree. She has long brown hair and is wearing a blue top.

    Lindsey Dryden

    Lindsey Dryden (she/her) is an Emmy® award-winning film producer and director based in Austin TX and the UK. She produced Sundance Special Jury Award-winning Unrest (2017, PBS/Netflix) and Emmy-winning Trans In America (2018, ACLU/CondeNast them) and executive produced Ahead of the Curve (2020, Starz) and BIFA-nominated The Forgotten C (2020, Uncertain Kingdom). She wrote and directed Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW), Jackie Kay: One Person, Two Names (2017, Tate Queer British Art), and Close Your Eyes And Look At Me (2009, True/False). Lindsey is a co-founder of FWD-Doc: Filmmakers with Disabilities, where she leads projects including the FWD-Doc Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility: Changing the Narrative of Disability in Documentary Film and the FWD-Doc Engagement Pack. She is also a proud member of QueerDoc, a 2022 Sundance Institute Documentary Producers Lab Fellow and a full voting member of the film and TV chapter of BAFTA. She is currently producing three feature documentaries, directing two queer docs, and writing a feature script.