RespectAbility’s Entertainment Lab for disabled professionals is making a big change for its sixth year.
Whereas the program had run for six weeks every summer even when it pivoted from in-person to virtual with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, it is now expanding to five months. The change will allow the lab fellows more time in between sessions to process what they are learning, implement them in practice and work on their own projects before the next monthly lab workshop. As RespectAbility senior vp, entertainment and news media Lauren Appelbaum explains, the cadence of the lab’s part-time structure helps make it more accessible to people with certain types of disabilities, such as traumatic brain injuries.
“We first created this lab as a solution to the response that we would often receive from studios, producers and independent filmmakers who wanted to hire disabled writers, directors and others...
Whereas the program had run for six weeks every summer even when it pivoted from in-person to virtual with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, it is now expanding to five months. The change will allow the lab fellows more time in between sessions to process what they are learning, implement them in practice and work on their own projects before the next monthly lab workshop. As RespectAbility senior vp, entertainment and news media Lauren Appelbaum explains, the cadence of the lab’s part-time structure helps make it more accessible to people with certain types of disabilities, such as traumatic brain injuries.
“We first created this lab as a solution to the response that we would often receive from studios, producers and independent filmmakers who wanted to hire disabled writers, directors and others...
- 5/3/2024
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Happy Endings Productions' 'The Panel' returns to our screens this week for a seven week run. The ninth series welcomes a new host in the shape of economist and journalist David McWilliams (Addicted to Money). 'The Panel' is directed by Pat Cowap (Saturday Night with Miriam) and produced by Seamus Cassidy (The Podge and Rodge Show). New frontman McWilliams will be joined by regular panellists Colin Murphy (The Blizzard of Odd), Neil Delamere (Republic of Telly), Andrew Maxwell (Comedy Cuts) and Mairead Farrell (The Ultimate Guide to Everything). Actress Holly White (Dan and Becs) also makes her debut this series.
- 11/4/2009
- IFTN
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