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Access:Horror

So inclusive, it’s scary.

Proudly ranked among the Top 5 Most Accessible Festivals in the 2023 Accessibility Scorecard Impact Report, Access:Horror is committed to ensuring a welcoming, barrier-free experience for all.

Access:Horror celebrates disability, genre cinema, and all that’s good in the world. Hosted by Ariel Baska (filmmaker, author, podcaster), the event will feature short film screenings, panels, and discussions, with luminaries in the horror and disability advocacy communities, and more.

In partnership with the George A. Romero Foundation and SHUDDER, Access:Horror hosts a hybrid film festival and industry summit online and live in New York City. The event is August 1st, 2025. Online tickets are $10. On-site tickets are $25. Buy your tickets, or donate to become a sponsor, and find the full program schedule on the One Cause website.

The event is at DCTV, at 87 Lafayette St in New York City. The program starts at 4 PM Eastern with a block of short films called Womb to Tomb. The second block, Flesh of My Flesh, starts at 7:30 PM. The event also includes performances and a live taping of the Blerdy Massacre podcast.

Accessibility information for the on-site and virtual screenings is available on the Access:Horror website and the ticketing site. Please contact festival organizers at [email protected] if you need financial or other support to purchase a ticket.

Social Audio Description Collective produced AD for seven films in the lineup: Flesh Ballet, Golden Hour, Lady Parts, Slasher, The Monster Inside My Head, The Shadow Wrangler, and Tight.

Audio description written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, and non-member associates Eboni Gaytan and Noah Kemp. Narration by Cheryl, Oliver, Eboni, Thomas Reid, and non-member associates Grant Miller and Tanja Milojevic. Blind QC by Robert Kingett and non-member associate Rick Hammond. Audio editing by Thomas, Cheryl, and Oliver.

#AccessHorror #ArielBaska #CherylGreen #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

In Excess

A series of encounters with one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces — unearths hidden dynamics of labor, surveillance, and displacement in modern America.

In Excess traces Philadelphia’s protracted efforts to curb illegal dumping and littering through a series of vignettes about excess, neglect, and human behavior. Presented as both a multichannel video installation and a non-fiction feature film, the project reveals the complex ecosystem of the city’s many fraught campaigns to manage its own waste.

Audio description written by Oliver Baker. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narrated by Barbara Faison. Audio edited by Thomas Reid.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #SADC #ThomasReid

2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

For the second year in a row, SADC produced the audio description that was provided to all of the finalists of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, a program feature starting last year. As before, no specific information about any of this years fifteen finalist short films was provided to SADC prior to our receiving them, and we delivered Blind-reviewed, sound edited and mixed AD audio tracks for all of them within nine days. This year, the only films audiences were presented at the live announcement and screening of the finalists and at the 12th annual live awards show that followed a week later were “Open AD” versions incorporating SADC AD–as well as open captions. Emcee Nic Novicki gave the AD a fantastic shout-out and screened a brief promo of us as part of the show.

Read more about the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge on their website or our blurb about our work last year.

All of the films showcase deafness or disability on- or behind-the-scenes, and to enter, they had to be scripted, shot and finished within five days by volunteers. They are allowed to run anywhere from one to five minutes, and up to a minute extra for credits. This year the challenge called for a thriller or suspense film.

Project Lead was Thomas Reid. Writers were Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, founding former member Kensuke Nakamura, and new associates Sean Collins, Casaundra Freeman, and Eboni Gaytan. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett. Narrated by Thomas, Cheryl, Oliver, Nefertiti, Barbara Faison, Casaundra, and Eboni.

You can watch all fifteen finalist films with open AD and open captions through this YouTube playlist.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #EastersealsDisabilityFilmChallenge #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Holding Liat

Holding Liat is winner of the Documentary Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at 2025 Berlin Film Festival. Liat Beinin Atzili is one of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows Liat’s relatives, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and humanity amidst war, trauma, and diplomacy.

Social Audio Description provided the audio description and read subtitles for this English and Hebrew feature-length documentary.

Written and narrated by Project Lead Cheryl Green, who also captioned the film in English. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Subtitles read by Oliver Baker and Barbara Faison. Audio editing by Thomas Reid.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Neon as Soulcraft & RugLife @SFMCD

SADC recently produced the audio tours for two more recent exhibitions at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design: RugLife, which is showing currently through April 20, and Neon as Soulcraft, which ran through November last year.

Biographical and other curatorial text were provided by the museum and incorporated into the tours. Wayfinding and description of the exhibition pieces were written by Project Lead Cheryl Green and Oliver Baker. Cheryl also narrated and edited the audio. Blind QC was provided by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett.

Visit the exhibition pages and scroll down to the “Audio Tours” links near the bottom to listen to a tour or read the transcript. The tours and the pages remain online after the shows end. Two other exhibitions SADC described are, Mr. Roboto and Indie Folk.

#CherylGreen #NefertitiBlindQC #OliverBaker #RobertKingett #SADC

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, the museum recently began rolling out audio and written image descriptions, written and produced by SADC, for every artwork in their collection. The project of describing the whole collection is expected to be complete in 2025.

For those itching to read or listen, already a few dozen artworks have their descriptions available on their individual pages of the Anderson Collection website. These include: The Coat II; Totem Lesson I; Chain Gang; Gansevoort Street; Before, Again IV; Full Time, Number 64; Transfiguration III; Lucifer; Homage to the Square, Diffused; Pendulum; Summer Image (For My Mother); Untitled No. 21 (by Martin); Hans Bricker In The Tropics; Untitled (1969) (by McCraken); The Tale; Living Curve; Untitled (by Irwin); Italian Summer; Sky Garden; Timeless Clock; 1957-J No. 1 (PH-142); black painting; Approach; Plumb Bob; Sinking Brick Plates; and Burn and Glitter. The museum will continue adding the written and audio-recorded descriptions as they become available. We anticipate completing the project in Fall 2025.

Descriptions written by Project Lead Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, Kensuke Nakamura, and non-member associates Eboni Gaytan, Noah Kemp, Casaundra Freeman, and Sean Collins. Blind QC by Robert Kingett and Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narration by Oliver, Barbara Faison, Cheryl, Nefertiti, Thomas Reid, and non-member associate Tanja Milojevic. Audio editing by Oliver, Cheryl, Thomas, and Tanja.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #TanjaMilojevic #ThomasReid

Renegades: Disabled Icons in October on PBS

SADC produced Audio Description for a new digital series of five documentary short films showcasing the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities called Renegades. In April, 2025, the series won a Webby Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (Series or Channel).

Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi, Renegades premiered Tuesdays, October 1 – October 29 on the American Masters YouTube channel, PBS.org and the PBS App in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Overall accessibility for the series, including ASL interpretation, captioning, and descriptive transcript, was coordinated and created by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Artist Network.

For the AD production, Cheryl Green was the project lead, as well as writer, along with Oliver Baker. Narration by Thomas Reid and non-collective member Tanja Milojevic. Blind QC by Robert Kingett, Bex León, and Nefertiti Matos Olivares.

The Renegades World Premiere onsite premiere was free at The Kennedy Center on September 29th, 2024, and in Manhattan at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, co-sponsored by ReelAbilities Film Festival on October 1st, 2024. Please note that some onsite screenings are planned to have live audio description, not the SADC-produced AD.

Visit the Renegades page on PBS to learn where to watch online or on the app with audio description, ASL, and captions.

#CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylProjectLead #MarLeón #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

The Last Jews of Guantánamo

Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo (The Last Jews of Guantánamo) provides a glimpse of a tiny community at a unique moment for Jews in Cuba. In the city of Guantánamo, following the liberalization of Cuban policies against religion, two women in their 80s are finally to be bat mitzvah; to ritually proclaim their faith and community with other Jews. Members of their historically Jewish family have come out and traveled from abroad for the occasion.

SADC produced audio description for the film, which premieres July 27, 2024 as part of a program on Jews of color, called “Peripheral Visions”, at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

Project Lead: Cheryl Green. Writer: Oliver Baker. Blind QC and narrator: Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio editor: Kensuke Nakamura. Subtitles read by Oliver Baker, Barbara Faison, and Cheryl Green.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylProjectLead #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #NefertitiNarrator #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #SADC

After the Bomb focuses on two women permanently disabled as adults by violence in Northern Ireland in the period known as the Troubles. It tells the story of their ultimately successful campaign along with others to secure substantive government assistance to people injured like themselves. At the same time, the film documents the unique support they have come along the way to provide each other.

Made by Heather Brumley, SADC produced audio description for the film, which premiered on July 14, 2024 and shared the Best Short Documentary Award at the 36th Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland. The film features the facility in Northern Ireland where the women met and their campaign began: WAVE Trauma Centre.

Audio description led by Cheryl Green. Written by Oliver Baker. Blind QC by Robert Kingett. Audio edited by Thomas Reid. Narration by Paula Burns, an AD narrator from Northern Ireland who the SADC specially subcontracted for this project.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/07/13/after-the-bomb/

#CherylGreen #CherylProjectLead #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #SADC #ThomasReid

Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)

Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1) is a collaborative art installation by Carmen and Antonio Papalia, which stood on view at the Migros museum in Zurich, Switzerland, October 2023 through January 2024 for their Interdependencies exhibition. View and listen to the description SADC produced for the photos and the videos of the piece.

https://vimeo.com/959172273

https://vimeo.com/959189028

Photos: Writer Cheryl Green
Video: Writer Oliver BakerNarrator, Audio Editor, Blind QC & Project Lead: Thomas Reid

2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Here’s SADC receiving thanks from master of ceremonies Nic Novicki at the award ceremony.

The SADC provided audio description for 15 of the 16 finalists for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, now in its 11th year. (The winner for Best Film, entitled Audio Description, had AD already supplied and central to its story.)

The films each showcase deafness or disability, and had to be scripted, shot and finished all within five days, all by volunteers, and this year all in the form of a buddy comedy.

Prizes are awarded in six categories. At the same time, winners also receive exposure and introductions to entertainment industry professionals and executives.

This was the first year in which finalist films were provided professional AD in advance of the winners being announced. Given the contest’s constraints, the description had to happen fast and under secrecy.  SADC is proud to have been the EDFC’s choice.

Project Lead was Thomas Reid. Writers were Cheryl Green, Oliver Baker, and Kensuke Nakamura. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Robert Kingett. Narrated by Thomas, Cheryl, Oliver, Nefertiti, and Barbara Faison.

Check out a playlist of the open captioned, open audio described finalist films.

#BarbaraFaison #CherylAudioEditor #CherylGreen #CherylGreenWriter #CherylNarrator #EastersealsDisabilityFilmChallenge #KensukeNakamura #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverNarrator #OliverWriter #RobertKingett #ThomasReid

A disabled poet with Rett syndrome (Ysolde Stienon) and a disabled performing artist with Type 1 diabetes (Marina “heron” Tsaplina) document their 12-month artistic collaboration to illuminate ground-time: the nonverbal, expressive dynamics of embodied communication.

SADC provided audio description for two short, open-captioned videos to accompany an essay of the same name in the Leonardo journal, Volume 57, number 2. You do not need to register to read the essay or play the videos, but other articles in the journal are locked and only available to those with accounts. Find introductory writing and introductory videos all in one place, plus links to the articles on the Leonardo site’s Special Issue Gallery.

In the journal itself, the two videos are linked in a section called “Supplementary data” at the end of the article. Here are direct links to Video 1 and Video 2. (Note, the videos play automatically when the URLs open.)

Project Lead and captioner, Cheryl Green. Audio description written by Oliver Baker. Blind QC and narration by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Audio editing by Thomas Reid.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/04/26/primitive-way-country-come-look-inside/

#CherylGreen #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #OliverWriter #SADC #ThomasReid

SADC produced a collection of audio tours for two exhibitions concurrently showing at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design: Mr. Roboto and Indie Folk. For each, SADC produced an “At-a-Glance” tour as well as more detailed “Immersive” tour. Scroll down to the “Audio Tours” links near the bottom of the exhibition pages online to listen or read the transcripts. All the tours describe the layout and a selection of four exhibits, and they also explain the concept and background of the exhibitions with information from the curators.

Writing by Project Lead Cheryl Green and Oliver Baker. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Rick Hammond (not an SADC member). Narration and audio editing also by Cheryl Green.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2024/04/22/museum-of-craft-and-design/

#CherylAudioEditor #CherylGreen #CherylNarrator #CherylProjectLead #CherylWriter #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #OliverBaker #SADC

SADC wrote and produced description for the Guggenheim Museum exhibition Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, which runs October 20, 2023 through April 7, 2024 in New York. The Guggenheim has made the audio also available on-demand on the Going Dark page of their website, and made Going Dark the focus of its Mind’s Eye virtual program 6:30-8:30 pm EST on November 13, 2023.

SADC produced 15 of the 29 tracks in their entirety: Writing, reviewing, narrating, recording and editing the sound. Guggenheim staff wrote 11, which SADC provided them notes on, and as with the others narrated and made into sound tracks.

Cheryl Green and Oliver Baker were the writers. Barbara Faison, Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Thomas Reid narrated. Thomas provided also the audio editing and with assistance from Cheryl, Nefertiti also served as Project Lead. All five members contributed to QC.

https://socialaudiodescription.com/2023/11/04/going-dark-the-guggenheim/

#BarbaraFaison #CherylGreen #CherylWriter #NefertitiBlindQC #NefertitiMatosOlivares #NefertitiNarrator #NefertitiProjectLead #OliverBaker #SADC #ThomasReid