Flyer description: A Superfest logo with a purple film reel is surrounded by movie posters and film stills for 2025 films. A purple block above says "UIC Disability Cultural Center, Chicago Showcase," and a purple block below announces event details and a "Code of the Freaks Reunion Panel & Superfest Talk-Back." Additional text shares details (transcribed above) and there are icons for ASL, CART, and Audio Description.
About the Chicago Showcase of Superfest Disability Film Festival
The showcase will be held in person on the UIC campus from 3:30-5:50pm, during which time we will show 100 minutes of short films (with breaks).
The Showcase will wrap with the COTF reunion panel and talk back at 6:00-6:45pm, available hybrid in person and on Zoom.
About the Panel
2025 marks the five-year anniversary of Code of the Freaks, a feature-length documentary that “radically refram[es] the use of disabled characters in film.” Centering the voices of 13 disabled scholars, artists, and critics, COTF analyzes Hollywood representations of disability and finds them sorely lacking. Our panelists will weigh in on COTF’s themes, five years later, and share their reflections on the Superfest films.
Tune in on Zoom after watching at home, or come in person and join in the conversation!
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 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), ASL, and audio description services will be provided.
UIC’s Daley Library is located near the Blue Line, Harrison bus, and Halsted bus. There is a drop-off friendly cul de sac on Morgan Street, and parking is available at 1100 W. Harrison Street or at Halsted & Taylor.
The Library has binary bathrooms with accessible stalls, as well as a single-stall all-gender and accessible restroom on the second floor. We’ll have people available for access requests: opening doors, giving directions, etc.
Contact dcc@uic.edu with any other access questions or requests.