Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington moderated a panel on the portrayals of people with disabilities in television and film on Feb. 11 at the Writers Guild of America, West. “People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories” featured the guest speakers Ben Lewin, writer and director of “The Sessions”; Margaret Nagle, writer and producer of “Warm Springs”; Eric Guggenheim, writer and co-producer for “Parenthood”; David Radcliff, writer and member of WGA Committee for Writers with Disabilities; Auti Angel, actress in the docudrama series “Push Girls”; and Ann Neville-Jan, an associate professor of occupational science and therapy at the University of Southern California who gave the keynote address
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People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories
