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.

The Fest is Saturday!

It's hard to believe Cinema Touching Disability is almost here! This Saturday, Sept. 20, join us at the Long Center in Austin for an evening of disability film and community! 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. 

What's on the program? Our line-up is live! 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!

In addition...

  • We're thrilled to have Gretchen McMahon back to set the vibe with some pre-show music!
  • Stick around after block 2 for a timely panel discussion of attendant wages in Texas!
  • See who wins juried and Audience Favorite awards, plus CTD's annual Gene R. Rodgers Creative Advocacy Award!
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.
 
 

Thank you to our 2025 CTDFF Sponsors!

Superior Healthplan
 
In-Home Attendant Services

Victoria Ford & Scott Hochberg

Blue Sky Abilities, LLC

Chase & Bethany Bearden

JWH Communications

Lynda Frost & Dennis Borel

Ted Bose

Texas Film Commission

Tim Glassco  *  Tobin & Amber Shaw  *  Trulieve

John Cox  *  Dave Miller  *  Don Sesler

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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