Imaginary Circumstances

Director: Anthony Weeks
Category: Health; Popular Culture
Total Running Time: 19 min.
Release Date: 2010
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Synopsis

Three actors with disabilities currently working in the Hollywood entertainment industry address the authentic representation of disability in the media as well as the ongoing struggle for access and inclusion.

This film addresses how individuals deal with living and working within an industry that too often shuns people because of their disabilities, and casts able-bodied actors instead. The film also gives a behind-the-scenes look at one aspect of America’s most visible industry.

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About the Filmmaker

ANTHONY WEEKS is a documentary filmmaker, illustrator and designer based in San Francisco, California. His documentary films have been screened at venues including the Angelus Film Festival (Los Angeles), Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Dokufest (Kosovo), Honolulu International Film Festival, Hot Docs (Toronto), Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival and the Thin Line Film Festival. Anthony was a 2009 award recipient from the Princess Grace Foundation (New York/Monaco), was selected as a Jury’s Choice--First Prize winner in the 2010 Black Maria Film + Video Festival, and won Honorable Mention for Outstanding Documentary in the 2010 Angelus film competition in Los Angeles. His film Imaginary Circumstances (2010) was an official selection of the New Filmmakers LA series and was named a 2010 winner of a CINE Golden Eagle award and a 2011 Student Acadamy Award. Weeks holds an MFA in documentary film and video from Stanford University, a master of social work from Augsburg College (MN), and a BA from Grinnell College. Anthony was a 1997-98 Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in San Francisco.