'Oddlands', produced together with Matchbox Pictures, sees Back to Back Theatre – which has an ensemble of actors with disabilities – officially branch into filmmaking.
The ABC has outlined a new strategy to ensure diversity and inclusion across its programming, releasing prescribed commissioning guidelines.
When the Casting Guild of Australia named Pallavi Sharda among its 10 Rising Stars of 2017, the recognition was arguably long overdue.
“Unless people with disabilities and in my case, non-normative bodies, become far more visible we will miss out on inspiring young performers with physical differences and achieving inclusion across the board."
People with disability working in the screen industry routinely experience prejudice, are lower paid, offered more precarious work and are in less powerful positions than their non-disabled counterparts.