Twenty Years: Twenty Stories is the work of professional and community film makers. 10 films are from Attitude Pictures, one of the world’s most experienced producers of TV content on disability issues; the remaining 10 are from film makers around the country who are supported by community organisations that help Australians with disability.
Auckland-based Attitude Pictures has produced more than 320 half hours of television exclusively about disability issues. Their documentaries have screened around the world. They have partnered New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development as well as the Ministry of Health, the British High Commission, Special Olympics International, the International Paralympic Committee and prepared content for, ACC, Westpac, Toyota New Zealand and other clients in the disability sector.
Attitude Pictures believes in creating careers for people who have disabilities. The company won the 2010 EEO Trust Workplace diversity Award for their employment strategy.
Australia’s disability sector relies on many organisations to continue supporting people with disabilities. Ten of these were selected to play an exciting and important role with Twenty Years: Twenty Stories, by developing films themselves. For some of these organisations, it was their first foray into film making, others outsourced to more experienced people. And for one film maker, it was a far more personal experience; not only making a film about disability, but experiencing a disability as well.