The Other Film Festival, which explores films by and about people with disabilities, ran panels which turned out to ask provocative questions about the experience of audiences, authenticity in performance, and the cheap bastards who built so many cinemas without decent lifts. Look throuugh the mirror and see yourself in a new way.
For people without physically lilmiting disabilities in the screen sector, the Other Film Festival and Arts Access can be a bit confronting. The story which Harold Hartfield told on the Cinema Futura panel is a case in point. He has taken the Melbourne International Film Festival to the Human Rights Comission, because access to half the cinemas at MIFF is so limited.
