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Iowa Disability Film Festival

FilmScene is proud to present the first annual Iowa Disability Film Festival. This festival showcases award winning films by and about people with disabilities with engaging programs that bring together communities to explore, discuss, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.

Previous Screenings

A FRIEND INDEED: THE BILL SACKTER STORY

2008 / USA / Lane Wyrick

The true story of Bill Sackter’s emergence from lifelong institutionalization to become an international hero for people with disabilities.

BEING MICHELLE

2022 / USA / Atin Mehra

This is the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman with autism who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system that refused to accommodate her needs.

FULL CIRCLE

2023 / United States / Josh Berman

Faced with a traumatic injury that leaves you permanently disabled, how would you reinvent yourself? Trevor Kennison’s life was forever altered by a broken back – for worse and for better, in equal measures.