Tag: Nefertiti Narrator

Buffalo Sonnet: A Digital Comic

In a project commissioned by New York’s Lincoln Center, SADC produced an audio-described version of the digital comic, “Buffalo Sonnet.” This artistic meditation on the Black experience tells the story of the historic San Juan Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, a vibrant cultural hub in the early 20th century that was eventually demolished to make way… Continue reading Buffalo Sonnet: A Digital Comic

The Last Jews of Guantánamo

Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo (The Last Jews of Guantánamo) provides a glimpse of a tiny community at a unique moment for Jews in Cuba. In the city of Guantánamo, following the liberalization of Cuban policies against religion, two women in their 80s are finally to be bat mitzvah; to ritually proclaim their faith and… Continue reading The Last Jews of Guantánamo

The Ride Ahead

SADC recently produced audio description for Samuel and Dan Habib’s documentary, The Ride Ahead. The Ride Ahead is a major expansion of their Emmy Award winning film My Disability Roadmap, which SADC also audio described. Samuel Habib is a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career, and find love. But, as he says… Continue reading The Ride Ahead

Seeing Stars— a film with vision, preview

SADC produced AD for Emmy-winning writer and Broadway performer Ellen Gould, whose performance of Seeing Stars is part of a documentary currently in progress. SADC provided AD for a newly available preview of the film. Seeing Stars is Gould’s most personal project in two decades of writing and solo musical performance, speaking about the influence and… Continue reading Seeing Stars— a film with vision, preview

Going Dark @ the Guggenheim

SADC wrote and produced description for the Guggenheim Museum exhibition Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, which runs October 20, 2023 through April 7, 2024 in New York. The Guggenheim has made the audio also available on-demand on the Going Dark page of their website, and made Going Dark the focus… Continue reading Going Dark @ the Guggenheim

National Park Service 2023

The Collective was enlisted to produce expanded audio description for a series of short documentaries and social media shorts promoting research at national parks. The National Park Service partnered with the Center for Environmental Filmmaking for the films, which were made by graduate students in collaboration with Park Service staff. Topics ranged from trail camera… Continue reading National Park Service 2023

When We Fight

What happens when 30,000 teachers go on strike? Watch as one of the largest educator strikes in modern U.S. history unfolds in real-time, highlighting the stories and leadership of some of the women who led it, from union organizers to classroom teachers. This 2022 documentary by Yael Bridge and Yoni Golijov has educational distribution through… Continue reading When We Fight

Introduction to the exhibition Monica Ong

Project lead, Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio Description Written by Kensuke Nakamura and Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narrated by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Introduction to the exhibition Monica Ong: Planetaria, with commentary from the artist and co-curators Katherine Litwin and Fred Sasaki. Free and open to all, Poetry Foundation exhibitions showcase work that brings together visual arts and… Continue reading Introduction to the exhibition Monica Ong

New Day Films trailers

Our collective described a number of trailers for New Day Films. Watch the described trailers below. Fireburn the Documentary. Written by Robert Kingett. QC by Cheryl Green. Narrated by Barbara Faison. Audio edited by Cheryl. My Dear Children. Written by Robert Kingett. QC and narrated by Cheryl Green. Audio edited by Cheryl. The Shrimp. Written… Continue reading New Day Films trailers

My Disability Roadmap

Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go to college. But he drives a 350-pound wheelchair, uses a communication device, and can have a seizure at any moment. Determined to find his path forward, he seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. Will they empower him to launch the bold adult life… Continue reading My Disability Roadmap

Hiking 75km on the Tonquin Valley Trail in Alberta Canada

A 16 minute film by Sebastian Bennett Described for presentation at the 2022 Abilities Expo in Toronto, Canada. Watch it on YouTube. Writer: Oliver Baker. Script editors: Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Cheryl Green. Narrator: Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio editor: Kensuke Nakamura. Part of the Accessible Parks Canada project.

Quarantine Not Quarantined

Public health just got cooler! Graduates Rise’s new single Quarantine Not Quarantined is a pop punk song about the human condition. Guided by Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, it is designed to both entertain and treat the level five moral crisis occurring in the USA over the need to wear face masks in public. Described… Continue reading Quarantine Not Quarantined

Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer

Latest in our series of pro-bono or “vigilante” AD. For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more… Continue reading Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer