Superfest Disability Film Festival: Chicago Showcase (Friday, Award Winners Screening Watch Party)

Superfest Award Winners Screening: Chicago Showcase Watch Party

Friday, October 18, 4:00-7:00pm (in person*)

Superfest Matinee Screening: Chicago Showcase

Saturday, October 19, 1:00-3:00pm (in person)

Student Center East, Cardinal Room (3rd floor)

750 South Halsted Street

Co-sponsored by Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition and Bodies of Work

Join the UIC Disability Cultural Center for a Chicago showcase of the Superfest Disability Film Festival! Watch these exciting films in community, and help us vote for some Chicago picks! On Friday, we’ll get together for a watch party of the official Award Winners Screening (we’ll throw in a bonus film or two), and on Saturday, we’ll be screening seven more films. Light refreshments will be served.

What is Superfest?

Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Since it first debuted in a small Los Angeles showcase in 1970 it has become an eagerly anticipated international event—hosted by Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State. For more than 30 years, Superfest has celebrated cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens.

Covid safety:

UIC does not require masking, but we are still masking indoors as an accessibility measure for chronically ill / immunocompromised folks and those living interdependently with them. Please wear a mask! We’ll have extras on hand. Some people may unmask briefly to eat refreshments, but we’ll have a “no unmasking” area designated to make physical distancing possible.

Access info:

• CART (live captions) and ASL will be provided for announcements, and all films have open captions.
• On Friday, we will watch the films with open audio description. On Saturday, closed audio descriptions will be available for attendees.
• Student Center East is near the Blue Line, Roosevelt bus, and Halsted bus. There is a drop-off area on Halsted Street, and a parking garage across the street at Halsted & Polk.
• The Cardinal Room is accessible by elevator or escalator. The elevator is located near the Halsted Street entrance near the information desk.
• SCE has all-gender and accessible restrooms available, though many do not have automatic doors. We’ll have people available at each screening for access requests: opening doors, giving directions, etc.
• Contact dcc@uic.edu with any other access questions or requests.

*Can’t come in person to watch with us?

Friday’s Award Winners Screening is also available on Zoom, 4:30-6pm CT.

Plus, the entire festival is available for streaming online from Thursday October 17 until Sunday October 20! https://superfest.eventive.org/passes/buy

About the films

For descriptions and posters of the 2024 films, see the full lineup.
For content warnings, check out this helpful list: https://superfestfilm.org/cws24.

Friday line-up

Watch Party: Superfest Award Winners Screening

Diagnonsense (Best of Festival - Fiction), 27 minutes

Friendly Signs (Advocacy Award), 21 minutes

I Told You So (Best of Festival- Documentary), 27 minutes

Mobility Rights (Disability Justice Award), 20 minutes

Sleepyhead (Innovation in Craft Award), 10 minutes

Bonus films TBA!

Saturday line-up

Dancer, 13 minutes

Mo <3 Kyra, 13 minutes

Ten to One, 6 minutes

Tie Your Camel and Trust in God, 12 minutes

Possum, 15 minutes

LUKi and the Lights, 11 minutes

Existing Patient, 17 minutes

This event is funded in part by the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and Humanities, as part of a larger project called Cripping the Arts. Cripping the Arts is a multi-year collaboration between departments across the Chicago (UIC) and Urbana Champaign (UIUC) campuses, intended to explore disability arts-led transformations of arts spaces.

Flyer description: A DCC logo and bold text saying "Chicago Showcase" with bold cursive text saying "Superfest Disability Film Festival." An orange arrow marquee with yellow lights points to the title. Below are lavender, orange, and navy blocks with the Friday and Saturday times and the location. Below is a blurb, QR code, and logos for Superfest, Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition, and Bodies of Work. Icons for audio description, captioning, ASL interpreting and masking are in the lower left with a credit to Cripping the Arts.