The University of Michigan is very proud to host the first Ann Arbor showcase of short films from Superfest International Disability Film Festival, the longest running disability film festival in the world. Superfest celebrates cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens. And Superfest is one of the few festivals worldwide that is accessible to disabled filmgoers of all kinds.

Access The Helmut Stern Auditorium, in the lower level of the U-M Museum of Art, can be reached by entering the Frankel Family Wing entrance, on ground level, located at the front of the building on State Street. Doors have automatic openers, and basement can be reached by elevator. The Auditorium has theater-style general seating and spaces for wheelchair users. All films will be shown with captions displayed on screen and with audio description included in the audio track. Live remarks will be captioned with CART and interpreted in ASL. If you have access needs not addressed here, contact CfDC-chair@umich.edu.

Films The following short films will be featured:
On Beat (20150) Cheng Zhang, Reid Davenport Awake (2015) Michael Achtman Stopgap in Stop Motion (2017) Stephen Featherstone Stim (2017) Marrok Sedgwick Sign (2016) Andrew Keenan-Bolger Rhizophora (2015) Julia Metzger-Traber, Davide De Lillis The Interviewer (2012) Genevieve Clay-Smith & R. Bryan
Invited Responses Films will be followed by invited responses from local experts:
Jane Berliss-Vincent, Superfest Film Festival Juror Sean Donovan, Film & Media Scholar Dr. Stephanie Kerschbaum, Disabilty Studies Scholar  
Special Viewing The Showcase will be followed by a special late viewing of UMMA's Mari Katayama exhibition in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery on the ground floor (8-8:30 p.m.).

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

Presented by U-M Council for Disability Concerns, Services for Students with Disabilities, Office for Health Equity and Inclusion, Instititute for the Humanities, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, and co sponsored by the U-M Museum of Art.