| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min.) : flv file, sound |
| Summary |
"Reid Davenport has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to get around and live his life in Washington, D.C., but has lived an independent life as a college student and published journalist. So when Davenport was discouraged from studying abroad during his junior year of college based on his disability, he was more than a bit surprised. Davenport decided to travel with a camera person to five European cities in three weeks. The film introduces viewers to three Europeans with disabilities, all of which live completely different lives from one another. Gavin is a 39-year-old Dubliner whose perspective on disability and accessibility has changed when he was diagnosed with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis 15 years ago. Matthieu is a 23-year-old law student at Sorbonne University in Paris who has been confined to a wheelchair his entire life because of spinal muscular atrophy and wants to practice law in the U.S. because of its superior accessibility. Francois is a 33-year-old journalist with cerebral palsy, who has a podcast about handicapped topics and advocates for disability rights in his native-city of Brussels. Along with Davenport's own difficulties traveling throughout Europe, these three people provide the anecdotes that put disability in a light that is rarely shone on them in the media and shows the undeniable connection between disability and the human condition." |
| Notes |
Originally produced by New Day Films in 2013 |
| Performer |
Gavin Fannin, Francois Colinet, Matthieu Bonvoisin, Reid Davenport |
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Closed-captioning in English |
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In English |
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Winner, Best Short Documentary, Awareness Film Festival ; Winner, Visions Award, Utopia Film Festival ; Runner-up, Audience Choice Award, Reality Bytes Film Festival ; Official Selection, DC Independent Film Festival |
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online resource; title from title frames |
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Davenport, Reid.
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Wheelchairs -- Europe
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People with disabilities -- Europe -- Social conditions
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Buildings -- Barrier-free design -- Europe
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People with disabilities -- Europe
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Human rights -- Europe
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Buildings -- Barrier-free design.
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Human rights.
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People with disabilities.
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions.
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Wheelchairs.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Davenport, Reid, filmmaker.
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New Day Films, publisher.
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