Superfest Matinee Screening: Chicago Showcase

Join the UIC Disability Cultural Center for a Chicago showcase of the Superfest Disability Film Festival! Watch these exciting films in community, and help us vote for some Chicago picks! On Saturday, we’ll be screening seven films. Light refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored by Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition and Bodies of Work.

What is Superfest?

Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest-running disability film festival in the world. Since it first debuted in a small Los Angeles showcase in 1970, it has become an eagerly anticipated international event — hosted by Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State. For more than 30 years, Superfest has celebrated cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens.

COVID-19 safety:

UIC does not require masking, but we are still masking indoors as an accessibility measure for chronically ill/immunocompromised folks and those living interdependently with them. Please wear a mask. We’ll have extras on hand. Some people may unmask briefly to eat refreshments, but we’ll have a “no unmasking” area designated to make physical distancing possible.

Access info:

• CART (live captions) and ASL will be provided for announcements, and all films have open captions.
• Closed audio descriptions will be available for attendees.
• Student Center East is near the Blue Line, Roosevelt bus and Halsted bus. There is a drop-off area on Halsted Street, and a parking garage across the street at Halsted and Polk.
• The Cardinal Room is accessible by elevator or escalator. The elevator is located near the Halsted Street entrance, near the information desk.
• SCE has all-gender and accessible restrooms available, though many do not have automatic doors. We’ll have people available at each screening for access requests: opening doors, giving directions, etc.
• Contact dcc@uic.edu with any other access questions or requests.

Can’t come in person to watch with us?

The entire festival is available for streaming online from Thursday, Oct. 17, until Sunday, Oct. 20.

About the films

For descriptions and posters of the 2024 films, see the full lineup, and content warnings are available online.