Before I started this film project, I had to ask myself: What is disability? The medical field usually focuses on disability in terms of impairment due to a sickness – disability that leads to suffering and disadvantage. The medical model focuses on ‘curing’ the disability or the illness rather than looking at the social factors [...]

My first short film, Olivia’s Puzzle, was completed in 2001 and exhibited it in its first major festival just after the World Trade Center towers were attacked. Subsequently, I moved to New York to start my first full-length film, Lest We Forget, which focuses on the racial profiling of South Asians, Arabs, and Muslims after [...]

It’s getting hotter and hotter. Today was very hot…but two days ago wasn’t. I walked from University and 13th to 2ns and 11th in the cool night. Heat in NYC for summer is not such a good thing for MS. Today, I went to an amazing dance production called Momix. Taking photos with Jonny afterwards, [...]