21st annual Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival, September 27 & 28, 2024, The Long Center, Austin, Texas

Line-up Announced!

We're exactly one month out from the Fest, and our line-up is now live! Check out all 16 of the shorts we'll be screening at the Fest. In addition to 3 blocks of great selected shorts from around the world, Documentary winners (below, first row) will be screened on Friday night, September 27, and Non-Documentary winners (below, second row) will be screened on Saturday night, September 28. Don't miss your chance to vote for Audience Favorite on both nights!

Film poster for Stoop Stories, with a young woman and older man sit laughing together on concrete steps. Film post for Turn Up the Bass, a DJ leans over a mixing board with pink and blue designs behind him. Film poster for Colorful Souls, an empty, wall-lined tiled street with a mountain in the background.
Film poster for We're Too Good for This, a group of teens, some with visible disabilities, peer out from behind a wall. Film Poster for Mo <3 Kyra, a woman with a huge smile and zebra print blazer, surrounded by pink and orange designs. Film poster for Existing Patient, half close up profile of a smiling woman and title of the film, imitating a pharmaceutical drug ad.

Tickets are on sale now! This year, tickets will be priced on a sliding scale starting at $5. If cost is a barrier, you can request comped tickets by emailing filmfest@txdisabilities.org. Incidental costs like parking, snacks, and drinks are not included in the price of the ticket. 

About access: the Rollins Theater will have open seating, with unattached chairs on a level floor, and some tables for those who need a surface. All films will be screened with open captions, and ASL interpretation will be provided for all spoken portions of the Festival. Audio description devices will be available. For additional access requests or questions, please contact the Festival at filmfest@txdisabilities.org any time, or the Long Center when you purchase your tickets.

More details are in the works! We'll send important updates to this email, plus post to our socials. Follow us for more frequent news:

 

Thank you to our 2024 CTDFF Sponsors!

UnitedHealthcare
Superior Healthplan
 
Genentech, a member of the Roche Group
 
The Long Center
 
In Home Attendant Services
 
Touch of CLASS
Amgen

JWH Communications

Lynda Frost & Dennis Borel

Chase & Bethany Bearden

Hart Intercivic

Pfizer

AstraZeneca

Sanofi

Arnold Public Affairs  *  Mike Shea & Toni Wilcox

Gilead Sciences  *  GRAIL

Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival & Short Film Competition
1716 San Antonio St.,  | Austin, Texas  78701
512-478-3366 | info@txdisabilities.org

Cinema Touching Disability is a project of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with Federal Tax ID #74-2071160.

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