Introducing the course.

Audio Description

(BRIGHT MUSIC PLAYS)

[A business woman, Peta, conducts a meeting in a large conference room.

Her jaw drops when a short-statured man wearing a black suit enters.]

PETA: All right, everybody, today's the day!

MAN: Hello!

[The voiceover also appears as text in a white box.]

VOICEOVER: We all think we are good at including everyone at work…

[Peta crosses to the man and gestures theatrically as she speaks.]

PETA: Welcome aboard, Hugo, our very first employee with a disability.

(BRIGHT MUSIC SLOWS AND DISTORTS)

[Hugo's smile vanishes.]

VOICEOVER: ..but sometimes we don't get it right. Which is why we created this course with a difference.

[On a footpath, a presenter of small stature accidentally steps in dog poo. The presenter is the actor who played Hugo. As the presenter speaks, the Pile of Poo emoji appears as emphasis. It has a smiling face.]

PRESENTER: Hi, welcome to Disability Justice Le… (SIGHS)

We're here to give you all the necessary shit to stop being shit to disabled people.

[A split screen shows four interviewees with disabilities.]

VOICEOVER: Created by and featuring disabled screen practitioners.

[In an interview, a dapper man grins from his wheelchair. Text: "Ade Djajamihardja."]

ADE: I'm a very proud co-creator of A2K Media.

[An interviewee, Chanel Bowen, has long blonde hair.]

CHANEL: I'm a film programmer. I'm a producer.

[An interviewee has a crooked, pointy nose and sparse hair. Text: “Sarah Houbolt.”]

SARAH: I'm a performer in film and TV.

[An interviewee has a light beard. Text: "Alistair Baldwin."]

ALISTAIR: I'm a freelance TV writer and occasional director.

[On a beach, the presenter and two friends relax under beach umbrellas. The presenter uses a tin can phone.]

PRESENTER: Can I have three cocktails please?

[They're served cocktails.

An office worker wears a pirate hat and eyepatch and brandishes a sword.]

PIRATE: Thar be the Kraken's lair! Ha-haaar!

VOICEOVER: Combining a sense of humour...

[At the meeting, Peta beams at Hugo.]

PETA: Almost forgot, we also have an Aslan interpreter.

HUGO: Aslan...? You mean 'Auslan'.

PETA: No, Aslan. He speaks lion.

(LION GROWLS)

[A figure in a lion suit claws his hands. Frowning, Hugo backs away.

An empty interviewee's chair sits before a pale backdrop. Later, interviewees sit in the chair.]

VOICEOVER: ..with our personal experiences.

CHANEL: You don't feel a part of society if you're not seeing yourself up there on the screen. Whether it's, you know, TV or streamers or the theatre.

ALISTAIR: There is a shift coming. And I think if you have a resistance to changing your practices, then you are kind of atrophying the creativity that can come.

SARAH: Myself, when I, you know, think about representation on TV and film, I just think, "Yeah, I belong in this world." That has a ripple effect on daily life - so that means that if I walk down the street I'm not going to get harassed, I'm not going to get yelled at. I'm going to be able to be served at a bar or a shop or not thrown out

of a taxi. That's the power of this film and TV industry, that's the power of screen.

VOICEOVER: Let's change our industry together.

ADE: We all... I know all of us, absolutely all of us, have value.

[In the Disability Justice Lens logo, a green and brown circle formed of layered angular

shapes surrounds a stylised square lens. Text: “Disability Justice Lens.”]

VOICEOVER: Disability Justice Lens.