Bus Stop Films Cover Photo
Bus Stop Films Cover Photo
Bus Stop Films Cover Photo
Bus Stops Films is an award winning, disability led not for profit social enterprise, based in Carlton NSW, which has been in operation since 2009. With a primary focus supporting those living disabilities and others from marginalised communities, we use film studies education, filmmaking and the film industry to change community attitudes globally around the rights and contribution to society of and by people with disability and other marginalised groups.Bus Stop Films produces amazing films. We show that being inclusive doesn’t impact budgets, shoot times or the quality of a film, however enhances the experiences of cast, crew and audiences and changes community attitudes for the better. With now over 65 short films made, winning more than 100 awards and screening in festivals and on streaming services around the world, to an audience to date of over 45M people, we are a viable and dynamic creative organisation. How do we do we achieve this?We EDUCATEWe deliver our Accessible Film Studies Program for adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability or autism. We deliver classes in Australia's leading film schools.We CREATEOur students work with award winning industry professionals to create amazing short films. We enter the films into Oscar qualifying festivals around the world, and we send students to festivals to walk the red carpet, introduce films and participate in industry panels. In recent years, we’ve sent students to the USA, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and interstate to represent the films they have made. Our work is broadcast on ABC, Foxtel and SBS.We ADVOCATEWe campaign for greater representation of people with disability in the screen industry on both sides of the camera and drive a more inclusive society. We support disability confidence in the screen industry through our Inclusion in Action training and The Inclusive Filmmaking Toolkit. We have a dedicated business unit "Bus Stop Employment" to support our participants and others with disability into employment in the screen industry and support production companies seeking disabled cast and crew, as well as support non-screen based companies with inclusive employment consultancy. We have supported our students into over 1000 workplace opportunities. Our students have been employed on TVC’s, TV shows - Neighbours, Survivor and MasterChef, feature films including Disney on Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

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