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
Tag: Thomas Reid
These projects involve Thomas in one way or another.
Access:Horror
So inclusive, it’s scary. Proudly ranked among the Top 5 Most Accessible Festivals in the 2023 Accessibility Scorecard Impact Report, Access:Horror is committed to ensuring a welcoming, barrier-free experience for all. Access:Horror celebrates disability, genre cinema, and all that’s good in the world. Hosted by Ariel Baska (filmmaker, author, podcaster), the event will feature short film screenings, panels,… Continue reading Access:Horror
Be Here Now
Celeste, a grieving artist, returns to their hometown for a quick visit, but when their ride’s car is stolen, they must spend the night revisiting the people and places they left behind, realizing that connection, joy, and magic are at play even when life feels impossible. Be Here Now merges the aesthetics of irreverent queer… Continue reading Be Here Now
Las Cosas Que Brillan
Las Cosas Que Brillan isn’t just a film—it’s a love letter to the Trans Latinx community. Featuring a story of resilience, self-discovery, and hope, this film gives a voice to stories that deserve to be seen and heard. In this film by Sotomayor Productions, a curious young mermaid defies her mother’s warnings and ventures… Continue reading Las Cosas Que Brillan
Thanks, Babs!
Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed-racing through life, one five-year plan at a time. Thanks, Babs! premieres at Frameline 49 on June 20th, 2025 in the Homegrown program. This program celebrates queer stories from the Bay Area. It features sci-fi, heists, gay stuff, elder stories, and more. Thanks, Babs! is the latest documentary produced by… Continue reading Thanks, Babs!
In Excess
A series of encounters with one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces — unearths hidden dynamics of labor, surveillance, and displacement in modern America. In Excess traces Philadelphia’s protracted efforts to curb illegal dumping and littering through a series of vignettes about excess, neglect, and human behavior. Presented as both a… Continue reading In Excess
2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
For the second year in a row, SADC produced the audio description that was provided to all of the finalists of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, a program feature starting last year. As before, no specific information about any of this years fifteen finalist short films was provided to SADC prior to our receiving them,… Continue reading 2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
Beam+ Stories, Season 2
Beam+ is a project-based, physically integrated creative arts company based in Denver, CO. The Beam+ Stories series is focused on breaking stigma, one story at a time. Season 2 features nine short documentaries focused on Denver-area disabled artists from diverse backgrounds and experiences working in a range of artistic mediums. The series premieres June 22nd,… Continue reading Beam+ Stories, Season 2
Holding Liat
Holding Liat is winner of the Documentary Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at 2025 Berlin Film Festival. Liat Beinin Atzili is one of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows Liat’s relatives, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and… Continue reading Holding Liat
Vivien’s Wild Ride
After a long career in cinema, film editor Vivien Hillgrove starts losing her sight, forcing her to reexamine past traumas and relationships, and to reinvent herself and her art. Directed by Vivien Hillgrove, Vivien’s Wild Ride is a story of resistance and resilience. The documentary captures a story of transformation on many levels, reimagining what it… Continue reading Vivien’s Wild Ride
Life After
The documentary Life After coalesces the missing voices of the disabled community in the contemporary debate around medically assisted dying. Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport uncovers shocking abuses of power while amplifying the voices of the disability community fighting for justice and dignity in an unfolding matter of life and death. This film premiered at the 2025… Continue reading Life After
Anderson Collection at Stanford University
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, the museum recently began rolling out audio and written image descriptions, written and produced by SADC, for every artwork in their collection. The project of describing the whole collection is expected to be complete in 2025. For those itching to read or… Continue reading Anderson Collection at Stanford University
Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS
SADC produced Audio Description for a new digital series of five documentary short films showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities called Renegades. In April, 2025, the series won a Webby Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (Series or Channel). Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi,… Continue reading Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS
After the Bomb
After the Bomb focuses on two women permanently disabled as adults by violence in Northern Ireland in the period known as the Troubles. It tells the story of their ultimately successful campaign along with others to secure substantive government assistance to people injured like themselves. At the same time, the film documents the unique support… Continue reading After the Bomb
Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)
Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1) is a collaborative art installation by Carmen and Antonio Papalia, which stood on view at the Migros museum in Zurich, Switzerland, October 2023 through January 2024 for their Interdependencies exhibition. View and listen to the description SADC produced for the photos and the videos of the piece. Photos: Writer Cheryl… Continue reading Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)
“Nothing Without Us: A Baltimore Story”
Last winter, student curators worked with two disability justice mentors from Melanie Hood-Wilson and Associates and six local disabled accessibility consultants on improving access for their Baltimore-based exhibitions of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s art. Students come from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Morgan State University, Johns Hopkins, and Coppin University. Members of the group will… Continue reading “Nothing Without Us: A Baltimore Story”
2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
Here’s SADC receiving thanks from master of ceremonies Nic Novicki at the award ceremony. The SADC provided audio description for 15 of the 16 finalists for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, now in its 11th year. (The winner for Best Film, entitled Audio Description, had AD already supplied and central to its story.) The films… Continue reading 2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
Primitive way country come look inside
A disabled poet with Rett syndrome (Ysolde Stienon) and a disabled performing artist with Type 1 diabetes (Marina “heron” Tsaplina) document their 12-month artistic collaboration to illuminate ground-time: the nonverbal, expressive dynamics of embodied communication. SADC provided audio description for two short, open-captioned videos to accompany an essay of the same name in the Leonardo… Continue reading Primitive way country come look inside
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
Voice of America’s “Extaordinary Teacher Damkerng”
At a public high school in Bangkok, teacher Damkerng Mungthanya is dedicated to helping students experience the joys of learning English. Blind since birth, Damkerng is also the only teacher with a disability in his school. In Thailand, 2.1 million people with disabilities are registered with the government, but only 6 percent of those of… Continue reading Voice of America’s “Extaordinary Teacher Damkerng”
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
Song Without Words
Song Without Words is a 15 minute film by Deaf musician and filmmaker Olivia Ting, which figured in her installation at Experiments in Art, Access & Technology, or E.A.A.T. SADC audio described the film for the installation and for the exhibition online. As an experimental art film with meaningful silences, the work would have been… Continue reading Song Without Words
Negro Mountain
A clairvoyant neurosurgeon embarks on a weekend get away with her best friend only to discover the mountain range has a haunting history. Audio description written by, Kensuke Nakamura. Blind QC, Robert Kingett. Narrator, Barbara Faison. Blind QC and audio editor, Thomas Reid. View theNegro Mountain film details on Alicia’s website.
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
Our Truths, Our Power
Learn from members of Google’s Disability Alliance employee resource group as they share their personal experiences, truths, and dreams. Project lead by Robert Kingett. Audio description written by Cheryl Green. QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narrator and audio editor, Thomas Reid Watch Our Truths, Our Power, described
Senses
After a horrific encounter with a stranger, two friends, one blind and other deaf, use their senses to defend themselves from a robbery gone wrong. Things aren’t always what they seem. Audio Description writer: Kensuke Nakamura. QC: Robert Kingett. Narrator: Barbara Faison. Audio editing: Thomas Reid. Read more about this short horror film by Alyscia Cunningham… Continue reading Senses
Upstream, Downriver
A documentary film by Maggie Burnette Stogner, Executive Director of American University’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking. Distributed by New Day Films. AD written by Oliver Baker, QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares, and narrated by Project Lead Cheryl Green. Audio edited by Thomas Reid. Learn more about the film and upcoming festival and community screenings.
Superfest Disability Film Festival 2022
The Social Audio Description Collective described three films for the 2022 Superfest Disability Film Festival, which screened both virtually and in person in October: Êxtase (Ecstasy) by Moara Passoni, a feature length Brazilian film in Portuguese, AD written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, script QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares, audio edited by Kensuke Nakamura. Narrated… Continue reading Superfest Disability Film Festival 2022
Wakanda Forever trailer
Latest in our series of pro bono or “vigilante” AD. Two vigilante versions of the official trailer for Wakanda Forever, one at the standard length with AD interspersed and another with pauses for expanded description. Audio Description narrated by Thomas Reid, written by Kensuke Nakamura and Robert Kingett, edited by Kensuke Nakamura. Watch trailer on… Continue reading Wakanda Forever trailer
Storming Caesars Palace
A documentary feature film by Hazel Gurland-Pooler. AD written by Oliver Baker. Edited by Barbara Faison and Cheryl Green. Narrated by Project Lead: Thomas Reid. Audio editor: Kensuke Nakamura. Screened at the BlackStar Film Festival 2022.
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
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