Ten new family-friendly short films have also made the cut, including award winners The Maker (Best Animation at Sydney Film Festival 2012) andThe Missing Key (Best Short Animated Film, Inside Film Awards). Another program favourite will be the Dr Seuss-style What a Debacle, Freddy Farkle narrated by Barry Humphries.
Supported by Vision Australia, Living in a Sensory World: Stories of People with Blindness and Low Vision gives visitors an understanding of the blindness and low vision community through personal stories, objects from Vision Australia’s heritage collection and examples of new technologies that are increasing the independence of thousands of Australians.
Embracing its new venue, the five-day film festival will include question and answer sessions with guest directors, forums, presentations and workshops offering professional development for film practitioners with a disability.
Organised at a local level by cinema management and Carol Unger of the Dandenong Low Vision Group, the PG-rated Water for Elephants is the second open audio described movie to play at the cinema after a successful screening of Red Dog a few months back. Being open audio described, all patrons within the auditorium will hear the original and audio description soundtracks.
