https://presentingannabel.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://presentingannabel.com/blog/soul-rft35 monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565797388353-ZNIL9DIOB2P9Q5AICP8I/Aro+Ha_0411.jpg Blog - Feeding your Soul image shot at Ara Ha https://presentingannabel.com/blog/summer-retreat-2fazc monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565796730347-F967A8VZLRZX25KHDFKR/Aro+Ha_0394.jpg Blog - Summer Retreat 2019 photo shot at Aro Ha https://presentingannabel.com/blog/yoga-b6bx3 monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565795875642-R6M0H2EEIP23VHI244L5/Aro-Ha_1169.jpg Blog - Yoga Reimagined image shot at Aro Ha https://presentingannabel.com/blog/exploring-n9nnl monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565797613488-VGVMGKNK8VDIMJ36QTC8/20140302_trade-151_0742-copy.jpg Blog - Exploring Colima https://presentingannabel.com/home daily 1.0 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/4d7acc11-34dd-4416-ac9d-2f02d58f53e0/OFFICIALSELECTION-ChagrinDocumentaryFilmFestival-2023.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/f25d88dc-a84b-4ea1-b95a-b4960fd47a40/fsflogo+copy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/f72cf9e0-80bc-4185-8e74-c5e7a09ca9b0/mail.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/22b071e0-80a3-4147-b3ef-b00fac2ffb0f/2023_CFF_Laurel_-_White_Letters+%282%29.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/d8c52ff2-20c7-45f7-a781-84d37bd68919/AUDIENCEAWARD-DOCUMENTARYSHORT-TALLGRASSFILMFESTIVAL2023A+%281%29.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/77592ecc-1ff6-4c75-87a0-bb20532835fc/Screenshot+2023-11-15+at+10.23.28+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/f9d347c8-9954-4e18-a67e-858ff2b20567/Screenshot+2023-10-12+at+9.10.40+AM.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/263082ea-d9bd-46e8-8b0e-8bdcef269f88/Annabel_tfdf_Poster_03+copy.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/515d6d3d-fc63-4ee7-af72-8c14e2e98d13/Screen+Shot+2023-06-28+at+2.36.43+PM.png Home - Make it stand out This program is produced by Amity Productions for a presentation of LPB. This film is produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary, Admiration Films, and Mama.film. Partial funding for this program is provided by Humanities Kansas, a nonprofit cultural organization connecting communities with history, traditions, and ideas to strengthen civic life. Web design provided by Lifeboat Creative with photography by Gavin Peters. Poster photo credit by Nathifa Love. https://presentingannabel.com/theproject daily 0.75 2023-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/46546b74-ae6b-40f3-bdd1-d33db70c55e2/Copy+of+IMG_1874.JPEG The Project The Challenge There are 61 million disabled people in the USA today, but despite making up over 25% of the US population, D/deaf and disabled people are chronically under-served onscreen, behind the camera and as consumers of screen storytelling. The lack of representation and visibility in the media is not only reflective of a historical erasure of this ever-growing community, it perpetuates the stigmatization of disabilities in a vicious cycle that can easily be broken. Not only do people with disabilities need to see themselves, but their families and communities need to see disability on their screens. Stories about people with disabilities should reflect the richness and diversity of their experiences in order to challenge attitudes about disability, change the wider narrative and build acceptance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/5c4a2cd8-9184-46ac-bfbf-33b465aacf6f/Presenting+Annabel+wichita+-103.jpg The Project The Approach The premise of this film is to be a collaborative creative effort between the filmmakers and Annabel. It aims to elevate her voice and facilitate her own creative endeavors. You will get to know Annabel in her daily life, what brings her joy, where she struggles. She’ll introduce us to her family and friends, her theater group, and the restaurant where she works. We will put our production resources and expertise in service of Annabel's vision by creating with her a musical number, bringing together her entire family and friends, which will be the climax of the film. https://presentingannabel.com/film-team daily 0.75 2023-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/675e0412-bb03-4129-aacb-4a8832303720/IdaJoglar.png Film Team - Ida Joglar, Director / DP Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/83022a93-c542-42ae-a35f-2da4fd598f77/AmityHoffman.png Film Team - Amity Hoffman, Co-writer/Producer She/Her Amity Hoffman is a filmmaker and producer originally from Wichita, KS and currently residing in Sarasota, FL where she writes and produces creative campaigns and commercials for a national communication company. She brings 30 years of theater experience to her work, including 5 years of experience working with special needs actors. This inspired her first documentary feature The Best Show In Town (2021), which received recognition from Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, Portland International Film Festival, Naples International Film Festival and Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/8aa8c974-4b33-4981-b9da-129ad552053c/LaurenColeman.png Film Team - Lauren Coleman, Producer/UPM Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/ab50d4c4-ef80-41b0-84cb-f8007506c3ba/MIKE+AT+PT+ROOM+2.jpg Film Team - Michael Coffey, Associate Producer / Advisory Board Member He/Him Michael is a filmmaker in Lawrence, Kansas and he has cerebral palsy. He is from Ulysses, Kansas and grew up mostly there before living in Amarillo, Texas during high school and college. Michael started to get involved with filmmaking 18+ years ago, meeting filmmakers and making film-industry connections. He has invested in three feature films, and he is credited as an Associate Producer for the feature film, Nailbiter. His first speaking part is in the feature film, The Sublime and Beautiful, filmed in Lawrence, Kansas in 2012. He is the writer and a producer of Triumph, a teen sports-drama feature film starring RJ Mitte (aka Walt Jr. in Breaking Bad) and co-starring Terrence Howard. Triumph was officially released on April 30th, 2021 in 200+ Cinemark theaters nationwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/538dc871-e081-4b12-a90f-151af0c0ae83/1517460517621.jpeg Film Team - Rachel Win, Editor Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/4aaac768-d458-4de7-9a77-62954b54702e/Charlotte+Woodward.jpg Film Team - Charlotte Woodward Charlotte is a young woman with Down syndrome who has had four open-heart surgeries and a lifesaving heart transplant. She works at the National Down Syndrome Society as the Education Program Associate and advocates for inclusion and community integration of people with Down syndrome. There is currently legislation before both the House and the Senate of the U.S. Congress that bears her name: the Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act. Charlotte graduated from high school with a standard degree and graduated from Northern Virginia Community College summa cum laude; she then transferred to George Mason University, from which she recently graduated, summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Inequality and Social Change. Charlotte’s studies and her work perfectly complement each other. As a budding sociologist, she examines the structural and systemic inequalities in society that affect the lives of people with disabilities, and as an advocate, she uses this knowledge to raise awareness about them and to affect positive change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/102e93a1-8cd8-43e3-9936-50884ca02b40/2021+RMP+PHOTO.jpg Film Team - Ray Mizumura-Pence, Ph.D. He/Him Ray received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas (2006). He also has M.A. and B.A. degrees in English from Miami University (1996) and the University of Wyoming (1992). He began developing his Disability Studies background in 1998. His areas of expertise include the social and cultural histories of people with disabilities in the United States. Prof. Mizumura-Pence also focuses on language, terminology, and portrayals related to disability and people with disabilities in media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/748d2461-1022-4ef5-8215-77ae7a2cee98/50B1FB72-A28A-47A9-A598-E7EB8A2E11F5.jpeg Film Team - Monica Stewart She/Her Monica is currently living her best life as a busy mom of three in Draper, Utah. Her youngest daughter, Lydia, almost 3, has Down syndrome and has turned her family upside down in all the best ways. Alongside some other fierce mamas, she runs We All Belong, now a non-profit, dedicated to helping kids with intellectual disabilities get more educational options. She is enthusiastically working to ensure that systemic and legal changes happen in Utah that will allow her daughter meaningful inclusion in her school and community. Monica received her BA from Brigham Young University-Hawaii studying vocal performance and has performed with ensembles in concert halls across the world; most notably Carnegie Hall and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/e789e683-20b1-48c1-aa43-3108482b4f9c/Christine+Scanlin-Dobson.png Film Team - Christie Scanlin Dobson She/Her Christie is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas and a registered Drama Therapist since 2008. Her research agenda explores scholarship from the specialization Disability and Diversity in Education and Society. Over the past 25 years, Christie has worked as a social justice advocate and teaching artist with children, youth, and adults with identified and unidentified [dis]abilities in arts centers, schools, community settings and homes. https://presentingannabel.com/inspiration daily 0.75 2022-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/1c7c14d3-2e50-4d00-9500-f50dcae022c1/711833_hq.JPG Inspiration - A Personal Connection Producer Amity Hoffman was first introduced to the power of theater in the lives of people with developmental disabilities when she was asked to costume design a performance of The Wizard of Oz by the Loveland Players back in 2004. The Loveland Players is a theater troupe born from a partnership between The Loveland Center, a day program, and Venice Theatre, a local community theater in Venice, FL. Amity’s exposure to the troupe and the transformative work being done there, led her to become a volunteer actor for the troupe and eventually inspired her to take on her first full-length feature documentary The Best Show In Town. Through The Best Show In Town viewers witness first hand how theater brings about inclusion and visibility for an otherwise invisible population. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/09e06bcc-eb0c-435b-aecf-5abb2392e080/IMG_6742_hq.JPG Inspiration While working on The Best Show In Town, Amity connected with other special needs theater troupes from other states (Pink Umbrella, Phamaly Theater Company, Theater Exceptional) including one in Amity’s hometown of Wichita, KS, Laughing Feet Performers. The Executive Director of Laughing Feet turned out to be Jenny Mitchell, an old theater colleague and college friend of Amity’s. Realizing their shared passion for normalizing disabilities through theater, Jenny and Amity discussed the possibility of collaborating on a future film project. To gauge interest Amity returned to Wichita where Jenny facilitated a meet and greet event with the Laughing Feet actors and families along with separate meetings with the Laughing Feet board members and select actors with their parents. Through these meetings it was determined that there was genuine interest in collaboration on the part of both the Laughing Feet board and participating families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a9dcefdc17281cb4f9f4f8/40ba2a22-0c07-450b-8ff1-d366f96aa1d4/IMG_8405_hq.JPG Inspiration The global pandemic forced those plans to the back burner. Meanwhile, while touring film festivals with The Best Show In Town, Amity met Lauren and Ida. The three hit it off with their shared passion for telling humanistic stories and raising the voices of underrepresented communities. A collaboration was born so that, when the theater reopened, the three were ready to take this new film project on together. 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Here are some general guidelines and recommendations for inclusion and accessibity when organizing events and community discussions around the film. Impact Guides The following resources have been created to help you maximize the impact of your screening. Click the file name to view and download. Discussion and Event Planning Guide Maximize Your Screenings Impact Preferred Language Guide Down syndrome Fact Sheet (English) Down syndrome Fact Sheet (Spanish) Additional Resources We recommend the following sources for a deeper dive. National Down Syndrome Society ReelAbilities Listen, Include, Respect Sins Invalid: A Disability Justice Primer FWD-Doc Toolkit https://presentingannabel.com/book-a-class daily 0.75 2025-05-12