The winners of the 12th Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Awards Awards were announced Thursday evening at the Sony Pictures Studios Lot in Culver City.
Designed to promote and encourage more cinematographic and television works of disabled artists, this year’s Easterseals filmmakers have instructed filmmakers to create short films from one to five minutes that exist in the thriller and the genres of suspense. As usual, the challenge participants only had five days to make their shorts. The distribution and crew of each film had to be made up of volunteers, and at least one person with a physical or cognitive handicap has been encouraged to be involved in the manufacture of each short film as a camera or behind the scenes.
Of the 123 shorts submitted this year, only five finally won the best prices in the challenge. In addition to the host, the actor and the founder of the Easterseans, Nic Novicki, Thursday evening’s event attended Peter Farrelly (“Green Book”), Skye P. Marshall (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Marissa Bode (“Wicked”), Jesse Metcalfe (“Desperate Housewives”) and others.
The event sponsors included Adobe, Amazon MGM Studios, IMDBPro, Netflix, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Pictures, Comcast nbcuniversal, Walt Disney Studios, Sag-Aftra and Dell Technologies. This year’s prices winners have each received a subsidy of $ 2,000, a $ 5,000 finishing / seed film subsidy provided by Adobe, a Dell computer, a mid-year in IMDBPro and an independent one year subscription.
The winners also received mentoring meetings with Robert Baltazar, vice-president of the DEI television program in Nbcuniversal; Ivana Lombardi, film director at Netflix; Karen Noble, director of the filmmaker and content strategies at Universal Filmed Entertainment Group; Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, executive vice-president of the west coast of diversity and inclusion of entertainment in Paramount Global; And Steven O’Dell, president of marketing and distribution of Sony Pictures Releasing International.
You can read the full list of nominees and winners of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge this year below:
Best actor
Dashiell Meier, “Day 21” (winning)
Nat Luna, “hypothetically, the end”
Fay Kanevsk, “Do not harm”
Danny J. Gomez, “the deadline”
Best awareness campaign
Anna Pakman, “Emergency Plan” (winner)
Hope Baker, “silent control”
Steven Charles Ching, “20/80”
Allison Friedman, “erased”
Best director
Shane Hillier, “Everhand” (winner)
Elisa Richards, “captured”
Rachel Handler & Crystal Arnette, “don’t take this in the wrong direction”
Chrissy Marshall, “Les Invalides”
Best editor
Lily Drummond, “hypothetically, the end” (winning)
Shane Hillier, “Everhand”
Crystal Arnette, “don’t take that in the wrong direction”
Chrissy Marshall, “Les Invalides”
Best writer
Steve Way and Danny Kurtzman, “we will meet again” (winning)
Erin Neumeyer, “Banned”
Rachel Handler, “don’t take that in the wrong direction”
Lily Drummond and Nat Luna, “hypothetically, the end”
Best movie
Lee Cleavelland, “Everhand” (winning)
Patrick Ivison, “Les Invalides”
Lily Drummond, “hypothetically, the end”
Marisa Hamamoto, “killed him”
