Finding true is hard enough, but what if you use a wheelchair or can't talk. How do you find a partner who understands autism? How do you “get lucky” if you don't have a leg to get over?

Winner of the prestegious Grierson Award for Best Newcomer, Director Claire Richards chronicles the real life adventures of four people with disabilities who are looking for love with the help of a group called The Outsiders in the groundbreaking documentary, “Disabled and Looking For Love.”

 “'The idea a disabled person should want to have a sex life is still considered fairly taboo,” said Richards. “You might even think that because someone has a disability they can't have sex, or isn't interested in it, which may or may not be the case. Without explicitly talking about sex and love the film wasn't going to get to the heart of the issue. I didn't want to dwell on sex though, the film is about much more than that - I wanted to concentrate on the idea of following people who were looking for that special someone and talk about feeling love and care for someone - it's a universal desire and that was my point.”

Read an interview with Director Claire Richards at Shooting People:
http://www.shootingpeople.org/shooterfilms/interview.php?int_id=74

View a film clip of "Disabled & Looking for Love" by going here.

The Crippendales

Remember "The Full Monty", in which six unemployed steel workers follow one man's dream and together form a comedic male striptease act? Now, imagine that same plot line, only with the leader uses a wheelchair, and his buddies all have physical disabilities.

That's the idea behind "The Crippendales," winner of the Best International Documentary at the New York International Film Awards. The movie follows Lee Kemp, a hepcat wheelchair user who wants to be a stripper. He recruits his friends to learn to bump, grind and dazzle the ladies at the "girls' night out" clubs. The film received rousing support from audiences at the most recent NY Film Festival.

Director Havana Marking explains the reason behind making the film was to “challenge the assumptions many people have about the sexuality of people with disabilities.”  Will she succeed?

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