WHEELCHAIR USERS TELL THEIR STORIES
IN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARIES
The 40-minute film tackles many issues unique to disability and pregnancy, while also covering hospital trips, the pandemic and, of course, the eventual birth of Dani Izzie’s two healthy girls, Lavinia and Giorgiana.
It premiered in May 2022 at Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride,
Colorado, and has been on the film festival circuit while the team searches for
a distributor.
Izzie encourages people with disabilities to try documentary-making.
She says the key is to reach out to people in the industry, ask questions and start telling your story. She hopes that the film, and her prominent role in making it, will help educate others.
“I did this to amplify disabled parenting,” she says.
“Pregnant disabled women are subject to hate speech.
A lot of times people are judgmental or biased against people with disabilities having kids.”
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