Films often still struggle to accurately and compassionately represent disability on screen. Despite progress across recent decades in portraying minority experience, films today often struggle to accurately and compassionately represent disability on screen. Whether used as plot devices, reduced to inspiring stories of overcoming adversity, restricted by damaging ableist stereotypes or left out entirely, disability and mental illness are areas of chronic misrepresentation across global media.

Panellists: Alistair Baldwin, Paul Barakat, Caroline Bowditch, Chris Bunton and Tracey Corbin-Matchett; moderated by Fiona Tuomy.

Find out more at http://miff.com.au/program/film/miff-talks-disability-and-cinema-beyond-representation