We connect the industry to experts with lived disability experience to advise on all things disability inclusion, equity, and access throughout the overall storytelling process.
By partnering with studios, production companies, writers’ rooms, and independent filmmakers, we can increase authentic off-screen and on-screen disability representation, effecting systemic change in how society views people with disabilities.
Our capabilities include (but are not limited to):
- Script Reviews
- Accessible Casting Advisement
- Rough Cut Reviews
- Character Design and Animatic Reviews, including creating reference videos for animators
- Marketing and PR Talking Points Language Reviews
- Set Accessibility Site Visit
- Writers’ Room Visits
- Disability Fundmentals Trainings and Workshops
- Research and Personalized Resources, Study Guides, and Toolkits
- Cast, Crew, and Writer Recommendations
- Facilitating connections with people with specific lived disability experiences and serving as a liaison and collaborator with experts, writers, and creative executives
- And More
Contact Vanni Le, Senior Manager, Entertainment Partnerships, for all consulting inquiries. Our team of consultants with lived disability experience and industry knowledge is ready to support you in your process to ensure authentic disability representation.
Disability Belongs™ has consulted on more than 300 TV episodes and films for partners such as A&E, Bunim-Murray Productions, CAA, DreamWorks, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros Discovery, and others.
