Coming to you live from @sundancefest Easterseals Disability Film Challenge founder @nicnovicki kicks off the 2025 Film Challenge!!! He provides valuable information and reveals this year’s genre! Check it out and register on our website. ID: Video of @nicnovicki in a black jacket and pants on a street from Sundance Festival. Clips from past EDFC films and workshops are interspersed while he talks. @EastersealSoCal #edfc2025 #DisabilityFilmChallenge #easterseals #12annual #sundance

We want to congratulate EDFC participant, Aisha Singleton for being selected as a finalist and will be participating in the 2025 CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge! Way to go, Aisha! @cbspipelinechallenge #CBSLeadershipPipelineChallenge #CBSTV #CBSStudios #CBSTVStudios #LAFilmmakers #disabilityfilmchallenge #easterseals #edfc2025 ID: 1. An image of CBS Pipeline gold and blue gradient with white “Congratulations” text next to an image of @aishatsingleton on the EDFC awards orange carpet. Images 2 and 3: Blue and gold gradient with white text of names of the selected finalists.

Don’t miss the release of GOOD BAD THINGS, the Slamdance award-winning romcom from film challenge participant and executive producer Steve Way and starring breakout disabled actor Danny Kurtzman. It is now available anywhere you buy or rent movies! ID: screenshot from @deadline article with headline “Music Box Picks Up Slamdance Winner ‘Good Bad Things’ With Jessica Parker Kennedy, Brett Dier & Danny Kurtzman” above a photo of a man and woman looking into the screen of a camera. @musicboxfilms @goodbadthingsfilm #GoodBadThingsMovie

Can you handle the truth? YOU are ready to make a film for this year’s Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. Read the rules and sign up with link to our website in bio today! #afewgoodmen Cast: John Lawson Danny Gomez Nic Novicki Director: Matthew Bauer Cinematography: Curtis Leitch Darrin Williams Writers: Matthew Bauer David Radcliffe Editor: Matthew Bauer Producer: Steve Craig ID: Inside a courtroom is Danny Gomez, a wheelchair user wearing a military suit questioning John Lawon, a double arm amputee in a military suit on the witness stand. Nic Novicki, a little person appears as the judge wearing a judge’s robe and vintage white wig. #edfc2025 #disabilityfilmchallenge @eastersealssocal #easterseals #filmmaking #shortfilm #thriller #suspense

Slamdance’s Unstoppable block is a showcase of films made by filmmakers with visible and non-visible disabilities. We have a lot of EDFC talent in this year’s festival which will be in LA for the first time. Congrats to these films on becoming official selections of the Unstoppable block 2025: WRONG GUY (Brett Maline), AUDIO DESCRIPTION (Lee Pugsley, Luke Salewski), DISABLED AF (Cashmere Jasmine), and OUT OF REACH (Sawsan Zakaria and Cosmo Rudd) The festival is also premering the feature length documentary DISPOSABLE HUMANITY directed by challenge alumni Cameron Mitchell and a line up of inclusive films that will be screening throughout the Feb. 20th-26th #slamdancefilmfestival ID: thumbnails of movie posters of the mentioned films under a Slamdance 2025 red banner. #disabilityfilmchallenge #slamdance #DisabilityFilm #DisabilityStories #DisabilityInclusion #filmmakers #DisabilityRepresentation #UniqueStories #FilmIndustry #ExpandTheConversation #SpreadtheWord

Did you tune-in to our kick off announcement? Our founder @nicnovicki has officially announced this year’s EDFC genre at Sundance! Watch as he also reveals it on “Reimagining Hollywood: A New Lens on Disability Inclusion” at the Wrap Studio at Sundance! Register for the 12th Annual Easterseals @disabilityfilmchallenge before the March 31st deadline and get ready to make a film in the genre of “Thriller and Suspense”! Visit our website to register, see last year’s winning films, and learn more about the #disabilityfilmchallenge ID: @nicnovicki a little person dressed in a black suit on a white stage holding a microphone. Next to him is Nancy Weintraub Chief Advancement Officer of @EastersealSoCal and Sharon Waxman Founder and CEO of @thewrap . #EDFC2025 #easterseals #disabilityfilmchallenge #12thAnnual #thrillerandsuspense

We encourage you to GET OUT and register for the Thriller and Suspense genre of this year’s Film Challenge! Register by Mach 31st on our website ID: Nic Novicki a little person wearing a white shirt and jeans sits in a chair stirring a tea cup across from Danielle Perez a wheelchair user wearing a gray sweatsuit in a dimly lit living room. Cast: Danielle Perez Nic Novicki Director: Matthew Bauer Cinematography: Curtis Leitch Darrin Williams Writers: Matthew Bauer David Radcliffe Editor: Matthew Bauer Producer: Steve Craig

That’s a wrap on our 2-day Cinematography and Directing workshop in partnership with Cinematography for Actors held at the Sony Digital Media Production Center! Thanks to @adobe for sponsoring our workshops. We have more planned in the near future so stay tuned for upcoming announcements! Register on our website for all our workshops at ID: carousel of groups of people with and without disabilities shooting scenes in a living room production set at @sonycine #edfc2025 #disabilityfilmchallenge #filmmaking #workshops

What a great night! We screened two @DisabilityChall films at the world famous @ChineseTheatres as part of the @theacademy #award qualifying @hollyshorts monthly screening series! Congrats to this month's films: TAKE CARE (Jo-Marie Lawrence) and CARPS (Judith Rubin).

We’re having a blast on Day 1 of our Cinematography and Directing workshop in partnership with Cinematography for Actors held at the Sony Digital Media Production Center! Thanks to @adobe for sponsoring our workshops. We have more planned in the near future so stay tuned for upcoming announcements! Register on our website for all our workshops at ID: Big group of people with and without disabilities smiling at the camera at @sonycine #edfc2025 #disabilityfilmchallenge #filmmaking

We are blown away by all the talent we’ve seen over the last 11 years! In addition to the grants provided by @adobe for the winners of this year’s challenge, we’re excited to also announce grants provided by #adobe that will be open to 5 EDFC alumni who may submit their previous Film Challenge submissions for consideration by a review committee. A $25,000 grant will be presented to each winner for use to improve the quality of their previously submitted EDFC film and to accelerate the development of the project into a feature film or episodic series. Grantees will also receive incredible education and mentorships. Alumni have been sent an email on how to apply or they can visit Submissions are open now through March 7, 2025. Winners will be announced at this year’s EDFC awards ceremony! ID: @nicnovicki in a black suit stands in front of the Adobe house at the Sundance film festival #edfc2025 #disabilityfilmchallenge #eastereseals #filmmakers #adobe

Thanks to @CNN and David Daniel @davidwritesstuff for featuring the EDFC on the CNN Hollywood Minute! ( We’re so excited about the 2025 launch and appreciate the coverage! Can’t wait to see those upcoming Thriller and Suspense films! Register by March 31st on our website. ID: Screenshot of CNN Hollywood Minute with a still of @nicnovicki announcing “Thriller and Suspense” from the Sundance Film Festival. #edfc2025 #disabilityfilmchallenge #cnn #thrillerandsuspense @EastersealSoCal

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Thank you @variety for the article on the announcement of the 2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge and the $5,000 grants provided to our winners from @adobe. ( We are so excited for this year’s film challenge and to see all the films you create in the 2025 Thriller and Suspense genre! Registration is open on our website now until March 31st! #DisabilityFilmChallenge #edfc2025 @EastersealSoCal @nicnovicki

Tomorrow is our big #edfc2025 announcement at 10am PST / 11am MT / 1pm EST We are coming live from #sundancefilmfestival ♿️⛄️🎥 Earlier today the @thewrap hosted a fireside chat on “Reimagining Hollywood: A New Lens onDisability Inclusion” at the Wrap Studio at Sundance! The was discussion was moderated by the CEO/Founder of #thewrap Sharon Waxman and it featured Nancy Weintraub who is the Chief Advancement Officer of Easterseals Southern California and Easterseals Disability Film Challenge founder @nicnovicki was on the panel talking about the film challenge and disability representation.

We are en route to this year’s @sundancefest where EDFC founder @nicnovicki will be kicking off this year’s film challenge!!! Find out the genre for 2025 and some exciting announcements via our social channels this Saturday January 25th at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST #edfc2025

Who is going to #Sundance this year? If you are, join us Friday, January 24th 4:30pm MT for an engaging fireside chat with film challenge founder Nic Novicki and Chief Advancement Officer of @EastersealSoCal Nancy Weintraub, moderated by Sharon Waxman, CEO & Founder of @thewrap as they explore “Reimagining Hollywood: A New Lens on Disability Inclusion”. See you in Park City! ID: Blue background with headshots of Nancy, Nic, and Sharon. Event details in white text.