Strengthening Disability Advocacy conference 2012
Disability advocacy and the legal system: You be the judge!

Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 March 2012 @ Melbourne Park Function Centre

A history of disability advocacy

In 2010 Sarah Barton travelled on a Churchill Fellowship to England and America and recorded more than 25 interviews with surviving figures from the disability rights movement. Her documentary is still in production but in this session Sarah shares some of the highlights of her journey and tells stories about issues, characters and ideas that she discovered along the way.

When

Monday 26th March, 2012: 5:30am - 6:30am

Where

Blue Room

Speaker

Sarah Barton, Producer

Sarah Barton is an independent documentary maker with more than fifteen years experience as a writer and director and sometimes producer. Her first film Untold Desires (producer Eva Orner 1994) was about sexuality and disability and won the first Logie Award for SBS and an AFI Award for most outstanding documentary.

Photo of Sarah Barton, Producer