Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival, September 20th, 2025, The Long Center, Austin TX. Logo is a cartoon-ish icon of a purple figure in a blue wheelchair, holding up a green clapperboard.

Tickets On Sale Now!

Tickets are on sale now for this year's Fest, Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Long Center in Austin! Tickets are pay-what-you-can, starting at $7.50. If cost is a barrier, you can request comped tickets by emailing filmfest@txdisabilities.org.

Please note that incidental costs like parking, snacks, and drinks are not included in the price of the ticket. 

About access: we'll be back in the Long Center's Rollins Theater, which 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. Live audio description devices will be available.

About parking: Garage parking includes accessible spaces, and a limited number of parking spaces out front will be available. You must email us before the Festival if you need one of the spaces out front. There will be no valet this year.

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.

Line-up Announced!

Our line-up is now live for the Festival on September 20! Check out all 11 of the shorts we'll be screening at the Fest. There are 3 blocks of shorts, including our Non-Documentary Winners (below, first row) and Documentary winners (below, second row). All divisions will be screened together on one special night this year. Don't miss your chance to vote for Audience Favorite!

Three film posters. In Case of Fire shows a staircase that leads up to landing from a low angle, in eerie black and white. Dreamscapes has a multiple images of the same woman (or is she?) descending a staircase with one arm outstretched, as if she is approaching the viewer. Take Care shows two animated figures, one in a wheelchair clasping her hands, and the other standing with arms outstretched as if saying ta-dah!
Three film posters. I'm Living Proof is a close up of a women with pursed lips, in a yellow shirt with large half crescent yellow earrings, a tan backwards ballcap, and blue and yellow sunglasses. Quad Life shows a bearded man in a black and white jumpsuit seated on a power chair, with the words Chasing Normal to the side. The man's head and torso are a photograph, while the image blends in an animated style at his feet. Simple Machine: Physics at the Speed of Life is an overhead shot of a person working on a gridded surface with notebooks and tools scattered around. A stack of film laurels runs down one side.

Collaborative & Partner Screenings

 

Join We Luv Video & the Deaf Television Foundation in Austin on Thursday, August 28th at 7PM for a special deaf-inclusive screening of Takeshi Kitano’s slice-of-life surfing masterpiece A Scene at the Sea (trailer). Quietly romantic and beautifully shot, the film chronicles the relationship of a deaf couple living in seaside town in Japan. 

Austin-based Deaf Television Foundation (DTF) aims to provide a four-pronged approach to meeting the artistic, entertaining, historical, and literary needs of the American deaf and hard of hearing population.

Tickets are $5 and available here!

We Luv VIdeo

Access note: 

An ASL interpreter will be on site to facilitate the introduction and any discussion. The film is in spoken Japanese with English subtitles.

While WLV is wheelchair accessible, the North Loop parking situation is not great, and getting into the store can by tricky for some wheelchair users. If you want to visit and have access needs or questions, call or email first!

Save the Date!

Coming up the evening of October 10th, join the Austin Mayor's and Texas Governor's Committees on People with Disabilities for the AWEbility Festival! CTDFF will be bringing a favorite short from our 2023 Festival to the fun and interactive program. Save the date now and stay tuned for more details!

Want to partner up on a collaborative screening? We’re offering our 2025 line-up for special engagements at schools, businesses, and other community groups. If you’re interested in booking a screening in your community, contact us at filmfest@txdisabilities.org. 

 

Thank you to our 2025 CTDFF Sponsors!

Superior Healthplan

Victoria Ford & Scott Hochberg

JWH Communications

Lynda Frost and Dennis Borel

 

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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