Why not restrict yourself to making films for a minority audience?
The distinction between disability subculture and the ‘mainstream’ is ultimately an artificial division. Disabled people are not fundamentally different from other people. We are black, white, have families, relationships, desire to be loved, comfortable, to work, love and generally play a part in life, to be happy. What makes us seem weird is that our lives are still largely invisible. Since we often don’t fit into the narrow mould of industrialised living. So our society is still held in a kind of apartheid. Films can show different ways of doing things, different infrastructures that make it possible for us to be included in everyday life. It’s this very challenge of becoming an integrated society that is throwing up all kinds of fascinating stories. In the end, visual impairment is only one aspect of a life experience that has sensitised me in a number of equally distinct ways. I’ve lived in India, have a degree in Sanskrit, grew up and continue to have roots in rural Scotland, kno
