Wide Angle Media Festival 2012 (March 22-25)

I’ve been a big supporter of non-profits, but some of the ones that I love to promote are those that have a component towards what in Mexico we call “people with different capabilities” (in Spanish, personas con capacidades diferentes – we don’t use the term ‘disabled’). This year, the very first disability-oriented media festival, the Wide Angle Media Festival, kicks off on March 22nd (until the 25th).

Kickstart is excited to announce the Wide Angle Media Festival (WAM), the inaugural disability media festival featuring commissioned shorts, international films and workshops. Mark your calendar for March 22-25 2012!

The theme of the Festival – “wide angle” – refers to the spirit of expansiveness and inclusion that lies at the core of disability arts, and to the widest range of media genres and formats. The intent is to broaden audiences for works by media artists with disabilities; to celebrate the spectrum of genres, styles and vision of those artists; and, to support the creation of new works.

Audiences will enjoy a privileged glimpse of the world through the lens of the disability experience. The themes of these works will be unlimited – they are not necessarily films about issues of disability; they will be about anything under the sun, as seen by filmmakers with disabilities.

For a full schedule of the Wide Angle Media Festival 2012 please check online here. A UBC graduate (Matthew Kowalchuk) had a film commissioned in the Wide Angle Media Festival 2012, and the trailer is shown below.

Penguins (Are so sensitive to my needs) – Official Teaser from Matthew Kowalchuk on Vimeo.