• Have you ever wanted to just pause everything to brainstorm? Labs, fellowships, and creative cohorts often call for a singular creative mind with a project to develop, and festival organizers rarely find an opportunity that fits their unique needs. The Ouray Film Sabbatical, hosted by the minds behind FFA Member Ouray ...read more

  • A Conversation between Michael McNeely and Justin Pymento My close friend and fellow accessibility advocate, Justin Pymento, sat down with me to complete this blog post, conversation style. As a note, I am deaf-blind but can see a little bit but CANNOT hear audio description. As a result, although not mentioned in ...read more

  • Hello Everyone! I am so excited for the next edition of A Seat at the Table , our FFA accessibility webinar series! In our second session, "The Guest Arrivals" we are focusing on how your audiences, staff, and filmmakers physically access your in-person events. We will be covering physical access to screening spaces, ...read more

  • There's a particular kind of festival week where everything just works . Where the theaters, the hotel, the coffee, and the party are all within a few minutes' walk, the weather holds in the low 70s, and the staff seem genuinely delighted you showed up. That was Indy Shorts. I spent three days in Indianapolis with the ...read more

  • Thank you for joining us for FFA's Accessibility Webinar Series, which begins this week on Thursday, July 23rd ( you can still register here! ) A framing motif through our work is that of hosting a dinner party. Take a film festival and boil it down to its essence: entertaining, informing, educating - or keeping people ...read more

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