Abilities United "Breaking the Hollywood Stereotypes of Characters & People with a Disability"

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Abilities United Productions' "London Time" written by Larry N. Sapp II, is an Official Selection for Best Screenplay at the 2009 Beverly Hills Film Festival

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We are the motion picture and television production company exclusively providing an authentic voice and representation while bringing together those of all Abilities United in Breaking the Hollywood Stereotypes & Ending the Discrimination of those with a disAbility.

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Does diversity in Hollywood really exist? To see if the diversity programs in Hollywood include those with a disAbility click here!

Does Anybody Care About Authentic Voices & Representation?

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Want to know how you can support and contribute some of your Abilities that can be United in "Breaking the Hollywood Stereotypes of Characters and People with a DisAbility" and help end the blatant Hollywood discrimination against those with a disAbility then
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave aways remains with me.'' Joseph Addison - 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

Click here for a Featured Actors with a disAbility page

and here for a thought or two on Larry's blog!

We are already a large community of over 56 million Americans with a disAbility. In fact that is 20% of the population - the largest and fastest growing minority subgroup in America and we are banding together to get the same fair and equal representation in today's entertainment industry that all other industries have provided and that Hollywood has provided for all other minorities. Hollywood is one of the last to be inclusive and even most of their "Diversity" programs have no provisions for those with a disAbility! Click here for the truth of the Diversity Programs and their exclusion of those with a disAbility.

The time for us to come together, work together and reverse the long history of stereotypes, discrimination and end of being represented by well-meaning but non-genuine and unauthentic able bodied individuals writing, directing and acting our lives as if they knew what we are going through.

A person's disAbility is just as significant to their identity as the person's gender, race, nationality, age and sexual orientation.

Abilities United is ready & able to provide, share and express an authentic voice and representation in the entertainment industry!

Together we WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

If you were searching for the newly renamed Abilities United of Palo Alto, California (formely known as C.A.R., the Community Association for Rehabilitation) a regional Northern California nonprofit that wonderfully serves developmentally disabled children and adults please click here at
www.AbilitiesUnited.org

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Behind the scenes! Here are some from within our community of those with a disAbility. Some that we have established relations and would be affected or will help to effect the authentic voices & representations of those with a disAbility in entertainment! As this is but a small sample of the disAbled community, it does show how strong we are in society, and questions why there isn't more representation in motion pictures and television! This will change with Abilities United leading the way to what history will soon record as a major "turning point" in American cinema for those with a disAbility!

SAG, AFTRA, and AEA announced a huge campaign to fight for the representation and equal opportunity for Performers with Disabilities (PWD)!
The "Inclusion in the Arts and Media for Performers with Disabilities (I.AM.PWD)" was announced to coincide with the “National Disability Employment Awareness Month” Click here for the News page for more info on this historic event and what it means for American Cinema!

James Cameron Unveils New Film, "Avatar"
His first since "Titanic" is a futuristic, sci-fi, action film featuring a character in a significant role as an ex-Marine & PARAPLEGIC. A new hero for the new century! Although it is cast with an able bodied actor - it is at least a step, ahem, but not an authentic roll in the right direction!

"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" - this is a biopic film on the months after a paralyzing stroke of Elle magazine editor-in-chief, Jean-Dominique Bauby. It got a lot of attention during award season in early 2008.

For more information on these headlines and other News such as: "Friday Night Lights", "The Ex", "Family Guy" and updates as they happen and affect those with a disAbility being represented in Hollywood - go to the News page!

Click here to read an article written by Pam Vetter about Abilities United Productions!

Click here to read an article
I wrote about the Hollywood Blacklist of those with a disAbility!

"Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English critic and poet

Note: None of the above have provided or recieved any financial support to be listed here.

These groups are some of those that we support their Missions and is a small example or display that we as a people, as the largest minority in America, and as the disabled consumer market are a force to be recognized in all aspects of today's society.