Feature Films of Abilities United the home for Hollywood with Disabilities

Whose distinquished and Oscar winning film career might never had began if it wasn't for a role as a paraplegic in 1950?

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Types of Disabilities

Although there are many kinds of disabilities they are usually categorized into two major groups, developmental and physical. We currently focus on the physical disabilities and again that group can be broken down in even more groups, i.e., visual, hearing and mobility. We do not dismiss any disability for another, but for simplicity, focus and personal experience our programs are on those that effect mobilty and currently all of them have a spinal cord injury that has left them paralyzed.

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All of our featured characters are the main character or starring roles and they all are those with a disability. In the past when movies did feature a character with a disability, it was often the focus of the story. The plot was overcoming the disability. Those are very strong stories of the spirit overcoming the physical challenges and makes for an inspirational story. But we feature characters with a disability where their disability is not the center of the story. Instead it is the story that surrounds them or is character driven where the disability is not ignored but is also just a part of who that person is like their sex, race or creed. Their disability makes up a part of who they are and in some areas how they are treated in society but the majority of our programs it is not about the struggles of dealing with, accepting and adapting from a new disability! Below you will find two examples that are currently in script format and being developed for production.

Title: London Time
Genre: Crime Drama
Pitch: Ironside meets Lethal Weapon meets CSI: Crime Scene Investigators

Logline: “Homicide Detective London, a paraplegic and old school cop is reunited both professionally and personally with Marci Waters and along with his young partner Detective Richmond, they try to solve a series of murders whose only common link is their profession in the entertainment news media.”