Special Report: Imperfect (2021)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Regan Linton and Brian Malone about their documentary Imperfect (2021) in which a differently-abled theater troupe from Denver puts on a production of Chicago.
The film plays this week at the Slamdance film festival. Find out more at https://imperfectfilm.com/

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:09.2	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:21.9	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:24.8	Turn it off.
0:30.1	Turn it off.
0:36.2	And... Hey, it's not! Yeah. We see ourselves as artists first.
0:51.8	Disability is a part of our artistry.
0:53.8	It's a part of who we are.
0:55.0	This is what I do.
1:00.0	We're as important as any other artist.
1:06.0	Walking is not the thing.
1:11.6	Do you like parking a little bit over so I can get out?
1:14.6	The thing that is the hardest is rolling out into the world
1:18.6	and having the judgments about that identity of disability imposed on you.
1:23.6	It's why I'm so passionate about changing that narrative around disability
1:26.6	that we are about life.
1:31.9	Why should we stick in a cookie cutter, child-friendly little box to make other people comfortable in what they think disabled people should be?
1:55.0	Yeah. in there of what they think disabled people should be. We're going to show the world that we are meant to be taken seriously.
1:58.9	We have to do work that is not going to be apart, right?
2:02.0	Think about that.
2:03.0	We're going to have a rock and good time.
2:06.0	Love each other, love the audience,
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