Open Call Recipient: Eric Neudel, Filmmaker of LIVES WORTH LIVING

Posted on September 24, 2009

ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs produced by independent producers primarily for public television and beyond. Eric Neudel produced and directed LIVES WORTH LIVING, which looks at the life of Fred Fay, a quadriplegic, and the small group of activists who formed the Disability Rights Movement and Fay’s role. Neudel received ITVS’s Open Call funding and in the clip below discusses how he first met Fay, how he hopes the film will have an impact and why he became a filmmaker.

 

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