The winners of 12th annual EASTERALS DISABILITY FILM CHALLENGE AWARDS was announced on Thursday evening at Sony Pictures Studios Lot in Culver City.
Designed to market and encourage more film and television works by artists with disabilities, year Eastseal’s Challenge Prepared filmmakers by creating short films one-to-five minutes in length found within the thriller and tension. As usual, challenges with challenges just had five days to create their shorts. The rollist and crew of each movie had to consist of volunteers, and at least one person with a physical or cognitive disability was encouraged to be involved in making each card in a capacity on the camera or behind the scenes.
Of the 123 shorts submitted this year, only five finally took home the best prices of the challenge. In addition to hosting, actors and Eastseal’s founder Nic NovickiThursday night’s event participated by Peter Farrelly (“Green Book”), Skye P. Marshall (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Marissa Bode (“Wicked”), Jesse Metcalfe (“Desperate Housewives”) and others.
The event’s sponsors included Adobe, Amazon MGM Studios, IMDBPro, Netflix, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Pictures, Comcast NBCuniversal, Walt Disney Studios, Sag-Aftra and Dell Technologies. The winners of this year’s awards each received a grant of $ 2,000, $ 5,000 Seed Fund/Film Finishing grants provided by Adobe, a Dell computer, one year’s membership to IMDBPRO and a one-year-old membership.
Winners also received mentoring meetings with Robert Baltazar, Vice President of TV Programming Dei at NBCUNIVERAL; Ivana Lombardi, the film director on Netflix; Karen Noble, the director of filmmakers and content strategies at Universal Filmed Entertainment Group; Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, the West Coast Managing Director of Entertainment Diversity and inclusion at Paramount Global; and Steven O’Dell, the president of Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures releasing International.
You can read the full list of this year’s Easterals Disability Film Challenge Awards nominated and winners below:
Best actor
Dashiell Meier, “Day 21” (Winner)
Nat Luna, “Hypothetically, End”
Fay Kanevsk, “Do No Maid”
Danny J. Gomez, “The Deadline”
Best awareness campaign
Anna Pakman, “Emergency Plan” (winner)
Hope Baker, “silent control”
Steven Charles Ching, “20/80”
Allison Friedman, “Deleted”
Best director
Shane Hillier, “Everhand” (Winner)
Elisa Richards, “Caught”
Rachel Handler & Crystal Arnette, “Don’t take this the wrong way”
Chrissy Marshall, “The Invalids”
Best editor
Lily Drummond, “Hypothetically, End” (Winner)
Shane Hillier, “Everhand”
Crystal Arnette, “Don’t take this the wrong way”
Chrissy Marshall, “The Invalids”
Best writer
Steve Way & Danny Kurtzman, “We meet again” (winner)
Erin Neumeyer, “Banned”
Rachel Handler, “Don’t take this the wrong way”
Lily Drummond & Nat Luna, “Hypothetically, End”
Best movie
Lee Cleaveland, “Everhand” (Winner)
Patrick Ivaison, “The Invalids”
Lily Drummond, “Hypothetically, end”
Marisa Hamamoto, “killed it”
