Amy Goodman
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Media Enabled Musketeers: Russian & American Filmmakers with Disabilities Document Shared Struggles
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3:25Now PlayingMeet the Media Enabled Musketeers, a group of Russians and Americans with disabilities who have banded together to raise awareness about disability issues through film. They have created a dozen short movies that delve into the everyday challenges faced by people with disabilities issues of accessibility, love, dreams and prejudice. One of the films, "Don’t Look Down on Me," has become a YouTube sensation, viewed more than 2.6 million times. The film chronicles a day in the life of Jonathan Novick, a New York resident with achondroplasia, the most common type of dwarfism, who uses a hidden camera to expose the prejudice and insensitivity he encounters on a daily basis. We broadcast excerpts of the Musketeers' films and speak to four of the people involved about how the RussianAmerican project provides a deeper understanding of life with disability while bridging the divide between their two countries.
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