An exciting update:
When I won just won the Best Canadian Feature award at the 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto. You cannot believe how excited I was. It’s been quite the journey to get to this point, and the recognition of the quality of When I Walk really is something special.
Check out the CBC Newsworld coverage on this accomplishment.
More so, this moment really taught me that I strive to leave evidence of myself as a filmmaker, as an artist, as a person with a disability who a creator. I feel like this is a small piece of retribution, recognizing the struggle and challenges of spreading the word about our struggles as people with disabilities. Hopefully this gets the word out more!
I think about the importance of leaving evidence, and I’m inspired by the Bothwords of Mia Mingus, disability writer and activist on her blog.
I hope that this is just the beginning and I can be part of serving a new era where voices of disability community are heard independently, not spoken for, and are part of mainstream society as everyone is.
Here is a photo of our Question and answer period after the film screening on April 27th.

