2002 October
In October, Alberta’s first film festival celebrating disability culture, called “Picture This…Film Festival”, premiers in Calgary, Alberta.1 “The festival features films that are about disability and/or films on any subject that were produced, directed and/or written by people with disabilities.”2
1. “Disability Film Festival in Canada,” Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness 96, no. 8 (August 2002): 600. Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed June 13, 2018).