This Film Festival Goes Way Beyond Inspiration Porn

The only time you’ll see an actor with a disability in a Hollywood movie is when the actor isn’t disabled, and the movie is the kind of thing that disability activists call “inspo porn.” (Think Rain Man, The Upside, etc.) But at the Reelability Festival, “actors with a wide range of disabilities got to play an equally wide range of richly developed roles. … They were bolstered in this effort by something else notably unusual: A lot of those writing and directing and working on the films’ crews also were disabled people.” – Los Angeles Times