RespectAbility Entertainment Professionals Lab 2024
Cassie Palmisano
Cassie Palmisano is a producer, writer, and director. She has worked for studios including Warner Brothers, Lionsgate, Paramount Studios, and Netflix in different capacities. Notable projects include ABC’s The Rookie, Netflix’s Dear White People, and upcoming trans film Again Again. She also works as a voice director for animation and English dubbing and has directed more than a hundred hours of international content including Netflix projects like The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders, Race to the Summit, Love is Blind Brazil, Love Village, and more. Her work as a producer includes short film God’s Editor and feature film Silent Thunder, which was featured at the Newport Film Festival and Beverly Hills Film Festival. Her upcoming producing credits include feature films Birdy and Chili Cheese Fires.
Palmisano believes it’s important for everyone to see themselves represented in television and film and hopes to share raw stories with diverse characters. She wants to create work that is not only an outlet for audience members to be entertained, but also a safe space they can escape to and possibly learn more about themselves and/or other people we share this earth with.
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After an extensive search and interview process, 5 individuals were invited to participate in an intensive session for disabled writers interested in writing for children’s animation, taking place May 20-23, with additional virtual sessions taking place in partnership with the virtual cohort, May – September 2024. Participants include people with a variety of disabilities ranging in age from the 20s through the 40s. This intensive elevates disabled creatives, focusing on building community, networking, and career advancement through a variety of speakers and a pitching workshop. This intensive is in collaboration with Disney Television Animation, DreamWorks Animation, LeVar Burton Entertainment, and PBS KIDS.
