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Stromies

I’m an independent filmmaker who makes films that are available for free on youtube with open captions and audio descriptions that star actors who are disabled in real life, to increase understanding...

The Facebook post for our guest blog for The Stromies! 

A fan of our film “A Stroke Of Endurance” who is a stroke survivor, recommended a podcast about The Stromies and the The Stromies Blog.  to Crip Video Productions. Then The Stromies kindly allowed our director Margot Cole to do a post about “A Stroke Of Endurance” for their blog here http://cripvideoproductions.tumblr.com/post/182046036911/guest-blog-margot-of-stroke-of-endurance   about how the film specifically relates to stroke survivors.  Super Special thanks to the wonderful ladies at The Stromies! 

We hope our fans that have Facebook accounts will share this post and use the hashtags #CripVideoProductions and #AStrokeOfEndurance in your posts! 

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Our audio described versions of our films have been shared on @disabilityculturalcenter‘s Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sudcc/posts/2679531785394082?__xts__[0]=68.ARC35G9uzmbuzegeliAIj_vX_2WJt6np5JE_I6p2KJZoC7S0cjXQB2xJbOZ5yNStgmvUDS5xMwbiROkSZXsRPOkZ4yntLVlmSHe4ZBEoNBIqPR8hwsEleS9eikjxlnwi-aMw8vQ&__tn__=-R Special thanks to Disability Cultural Center for the publicity!  

[Image description: Facebook post reads: Hi Everyone,This email is to announce that all current Crip Video Productions films have been audio described! If you do not use audio description yourself please pass along the links below to people who do use audio description. If the audio descriptions do not play properly simply re load the pages. (links) Crip Video Productions is offering audio description on our films for the very first time. Crip Video Productions apologizes for taking this long to provide audio described versions to our blind/visually impaired/low vision fan base. We attempted to add audio description to the films multiple times. Unfortunately the previous attempts failed due to technical difficulties on my end. Luckily Tucker Salovaara who acted in our film “Crips Not Creeps” was kind enough to use a service called “You Describe” to audio described the films for us. Special thanks to Tucker! If anyone reading this would like to use the audio described versions for screenings please contact us] 

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My name is Bernadette Perna. I am a student at BMCC. I am involved in Beyond the Limits club. One day our club had a film that they wanted us to watch. It was called "A Stroke of Endurance" By Margot Cole. I thought this was a perfect time for me to do my homework on my tablet. I thought this film was going to be boring. So I started to watch it and I couldn't stop watching it. I couldn't even eat my slice of pizza that day. After I watched it. I began asking so many questions to ask our President Mathew of our club. He didn't know some of the answers so we had a computer that we could ask Margot Cole our questions I think you would call it Skype. It gave me encouragement and high self esteem to go forward in a project that was impossible for me to do because I was being shy and didn't think I could do it because of my disability. I have Bipolar Disorder and ADHD. Because of this film it showed me that just because you have a disability does not mean you can't do it but there are always ways for you to not only start it but to finish it. Because of this film I finished my project on time and I felt so good about myself. Thank you Margot Cole for making this film. It inspired me to keep going forward in my accomplishing my goal.

Bernadette Perna. 

In April 2018, I had a screening for a college club called “Beyond The Limits”. I introduced the film and we had a Q&A via Skype. During the Q&A, my actor Tim Snoha said he approached Professor Ben’s character as “How would it feel to not be sure if you can communicate as well as you used to and do your job, because the professor loves to teach.” and used his Cerebral Palsy as a reference for the character. The above quote is from one of our new biggest fans who we met at the screening. Thank you so much for your lovely words Bernadette! We have full permission from Bernadette to post her words. 

To watch “A Stroke Of Endurance” online for free please scroll down on this blog or go to the “films” tab on our official website! More exciting news on new screenings and new projects from Crip Video Productions will be posted soon. 

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Private online interview

Today(April 7th) I gave a private presentation/interview about “A Stroke Of Endurance” to a small group of college students online. One student came on the video call a tad early and said that the film was a great inspiration to her and immediately asked how I went about getting permission to film “A Stroke Of Endurance” in certain locations (called location scouting by professionals) and if it was difficult or nerve racking to do so. I responded that the locations shown in “A Stroke Of Endurance” were some of the easiest to work with. Once the rest of the students arrived many of them asked about the true events that roughly inspired “A Stroke Of Endurance” and one asked how I researched and observed strokes and whether I had gotten input from real Stroke Survivors themselves which the answer to is yes I did. We talked about mental health, ableism and the “Super Crip” stereotype. I was asked the meaning of “Crip”. I was asked about IEPs and how the public school system, and college education system are different. Many students asked why Ava had such emotional reactions in the film. We discussed disclosure and privacy as it relates to disability accommodations. Of course some of the usual questions about preferred disability terminology was brought up. I was asked what it was like to act and direct at the same time. Someone asked if I had ever witnessed anybody have a stroke in the middle of the stroke itself as it happened. At the end I was asked what my favorite movie or piece of media was.  The interview had a great flow to it.