“I want to show that people who are like me … we can also make a difference to the world and show who we really are,” she said.In an effort to encourage just that, Bus Stop Films on Friday will release their Inclusive Filmmaking Toolkit, which outlines best practice principles to create meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities in front of and behind the camera.
“Meaningful inclusion and being a part of scriptwriting, storytelling, being a part of the process before you even get on to set, is so important because people with the lived experience of disability can only bring that experience,” she said.“The film industry is our industry of storytelling and if we are leaving people out of the creation of stories, if we are leaving them out of representing themselves on screen, then we are missing quite a large percentage of the population.