[Blindtlk] "Lives Worth Living" Disability Rights Documentary Premieres on PBS Series Independent Lens; October 27

Sat Oct 22 02:43:15 UTC 2011

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>Rarely in the history of media has a documentary 
>captured the authentic voices of disability 
>leaders as they reframe the debate on the 
>disability rights movement in America. This 
>October 27 premiere of Lives Worth Living 
>coincides with National Disability Employment 
>Awareness Month, and gives “Independent Lens” a 
>whole new meaning as this film recalibrates the 
>focus that chronicles the Independent Living Movement.
>This film is for everyone with – and without - 
>disabilities.  We encourage students to watch 
>and discuss in school; employees to watch (with 
>their Employee Resource Groups); families to 
>experience it with friends.  Blog about it, talk about it.
>Let PBS know this is the kind of authentic programming that is important.
>Lives Worth Living IS the film worth watching!
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>Lead On.....
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>Tari
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>Tari Hartman Squire, CEO
>EIN SOF Communications, Inc.
>"We Mean Business"
>11601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500
>Los Angeles, CA 90025
>310-650-0595 - mobile
>310-473-5954 - office
><mailto:Tari at EINSOFcommunications.com>Tari at EINSOFcommunications.com
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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT
>Voleine Amilcar, ITVS            415-356-8383 x 
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><mailto:voleine_amilcar at itvs.org>voleine_amilcar at itvs.org
>Mary 
>Lugo 
>770-623-8190 
><mailto:lugo at negia.net>lugo at negia.net
>Cara 
>White 
>843-881-1480 
><mailto:cara.white at mac.com>cara.white at mac.com
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>For downloadable images, visit 
><http://pressroom.pbs.org/>http://pressroom.pbs.org
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>LIVES WORTH LIVING Premieres on the PBS Series INDEPENDENT LENS
>Thursday, October 27 at 10 PM During
>National Disability Employment Awareness Month
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>Powerful Documentary Chronicles the History of 
>America’s Disability Rights Movement
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>While there are over 54 million Americans living 
>with disabilities, Lives Worth Living is the 
>first television history of their decades-long 
>struggle for equal rights. Produced and directed 
>by Eric Neudel, Lives Worth Living is a window 
>into a world inhabited by people with an 
>unwavering determination to live their lives 
>like everyone else, and a look back into a past 
>when millions of Americans lived without access 
>to schools, employment, apartment buildings, and 
>public transportation – a way of life 
>unimaginable today. Lives Worth Living premieres 
>on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series 
>Independent Lens, on Thursday, October 27, 2011 
>at 10 PM (check local listings) to coincide with 
>National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
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>Lives Worth Living traces the development of the 
>disability rights movement from its beginning 
>following World War II, when thousands of 
>disabled veterans returned home, through its 
>burgeoning in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began 
>to adopt the tactics of other social movements. 
>Told through interviews with the movement’s 
>pioneers, legislators, and others, Lives Worth 
>Living explores how Americans with a wide 
>variety of disabilities  including blind, deaf, 
>physical, intellectual and psychiatric  banded 
>together to change public perception and policy. 
>Through demonstrations and legislative battles, 
>the disability rights community finally secured 
>equal civil rights with the 1990 passage and 
>signing into law of the Americans with 
>Disabilities Act, one of the most transformative 
>pieces of civil rights legislation in American history.
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>To learn more about the film, and the issues 
>involved, visit the film’s companion website at 
><http://www.pbs.org/independentlens>www.pbs.org/independentlens/. 
>Get detailed information on the film, watch 
>preview clips, read an interview with the 
>filmmaker, and explore the subject in depth with 
>links and resources. The site also features a 
>Talkback section, where viewers can share their ideas and opinions.
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>About the Participants, in Order of Appearance
>Fred Fay, early leader in the 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_rights_movement>disability 
>rights movement (1944 – 2011)
>Ann Ford, director of the Illinois National Council on Independent Living
>Judy Heumann, leading disability rights 
>activist, Co-Founder of World Institute on Disability
>Judi Chamberlin, Mental Patients Liberation 
>Front, a movement for the rights and dignity of 
>people with mental illness (1944-2010)
>Dr. William Bronston, former staff physician at 
>the notorious Willowbrook State School who was 
>dismissed after agitating for change
>Bob Kafka, established ADAPT of Texas, a 
>disability rights advocacy organization
>Zona Roberts, counselor, UC Berkeley's 
>Physically Disabled Students’ Program and Center 
>for Independent Living, Berkeley; mother of 
>disability rights pioneer Ed Roberts
>Pat Wright, Former Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
>John Wodatch, Former Chief, Disability Rights 
>Section, Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice
>Jack Duncan, Former Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
>Mary Jane Owen, disability rights activist, 
>philosopher, policy expert, and writer
>Marca Bristo, CEO, Access Living of Metropolitan 
>Chicago, former chair of the National Council on 
>Disability, and leader in the disability rights movement
>Michael Winter, Former director, Berkeley Center for Independent Living
>Lex Frieden, Former director, National Council 
>on the Handicapped (now National Council on Disability)
>Dr. I. King Jordan, President Emeritus, Gallaudet University
>Jeff Rosen, alumni leader, Gallaudet University
>Senator Tom Harkin, (D-Iowa), co-author of the ADA
>Bobby Silverstein, Former Chief Counsel, Senate 
>Subcommittee on Disability Policy
>Richard Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, 1988-1991
>Tony Coelho, Former Congressman (D-California), 
>House Majority Whip, 1986-1989, author of the ADA
>Justin Dart, leader in the disability rights movement (1930 – 2002)
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>About the Filmmaker
>Eric Neudel (Producer/Director) has produced, 
>directed, and edited numerous award-winning 
>films for public television. His many credits 
>include Eyes on the Prize, AIDS: Chapter One, 
>LBJ Goes to War, Tet 1968, Steps, After the 
>Crash, The Philippines and The US: In Our Image, 
>Body and Soul, and more. He was a visiting 
>senior critic and lecturer in film at Yale 
>University and served as producer, director, and 
>editor for Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center 
>for Teaching and Learning, and Spectrum Media’s 
>program series on the art and craft of teaching. 
>Neudel was also a photographer and video 
>production consultant, teaching video production 
>to a team working for the Compass Project in 
>Malawi. Photographs from his two years in Malawi 
>were exhibited in the Sandra and Phillip Gordon 
>Gallery at The Boston Arts Academy in October 2007.
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>He also served as story consultant for Row Hard 
>No Excuses, an award-winning documentary about 
>two middle aged American men who set out to 
>cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. Most recently 
>he served as a photographer in Rwanda for The 
>Boston Globe, where he directed, produced, and 
>edited a companion documentary about the 
>Maranyundo Middle School, which was built on the 
>site of one of the worst concentration camps and killing fields in Rwanda.
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>About Independent Lens
>Independent Lens is an Emmy® Award-winning 
>weekly series airing Thursday nights at 10 PM on 
>PBS. The acclaimed anthology series features 
>documentaries and a limited number of fiction 
>films united by the creative freedom, artistic 
>achievement, and unflinching visions of their 
>independent producers. Independent Lens features 
>unforgettable stories about a unique individual, 
>community or moment in history. Presented by the 
>Independent Television Service (ITVS), the 
>series is supported by interactive companion 
>websites and national publicity and community 
>engagement campaigns.  Further information about 
>the series is available at 
><http://www.pbs.org/independentlens>www.pbs.org/independentlens. 
>Independent Lens is jointly curated by ITVS and 
>PBS; it is funded by the Corporation for Public 
>Broadcasting (CPB), a private corporation funded 
>by the American people, with additional funding 
>provided by PBS and the National Endowment for 
>the Arts.  The series producer is Lois Vossen.
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