[Nfbk] FW: PBS Documentaries featuring people with Disabilities

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From: Wright, Jennifer (OFB-FK) [mailto:JenniferN.Wright at ky.gov] 
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Subject: PBS Documentaries featuring people with Disabilities

 

FYI

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PBS - Two documentaries featuring people with disabilities

Lives Worth Living: October 27th and Deaf Jam: November 3rd


PBS is airing a NDEAM documentary which will feature the first ever TV
history of the decades long chronicle of America's Disability Rights
Movement. Information below and in the attached is for your review. Please
share this announcement as you determine appropriate.

For downloadable images, visit  <http://pressroom.pbs.org>
http://pressroom.pbs.org

LIVES WORTH LIVING Premieres on the PBS Series INDEPENDENT LENS
Thursday, October 27 at 10 PM During
National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Powerful Documentary Chronicles the History of America's Disability Rights
Movement

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 EmmyR 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.

To learn more about the film, and the issues involved, visit the film's
companion website at 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.


The second documentary is Deaf Jam. This will showcase a Deaf teenage
exploring Hip Hop music and poetry. The date will be November 3rd on PBS
Channel at 10pm EST
www.itvs.org/films/deaf-jam

 

Jennifer Wright

Office for the Blind

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2nd Floor Mail Stop 2-EJ

Frankfort, KY 40621

Phone: (502) 782-3407

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