The Ability Exchange (2016)

The Ability Exchange: Directed by Bing Wang. “The Ability Exchange” is a documentary about an innovative Disability Studies class at NYU Tandon where engineering students and adults with cerebral palsy learn to communicate, connect, and cultivate their abilities by making movies.

“The documentary is excellent because it presents life as it is. A semester long school project that becomes so much more than that. Lessons learned, serious conversations and topics, genuine laughs, mistakes and wisdom. It is all there. Its captured in the most natural way possible – as to give us the feel that the camera is not there. It presents reality as it is. Unaltered and unfiltered. An insight into disability, what it really is, and a suggestion of the real issue surrounding it. A raw exposure of humans, their insecurities, their pride, their awkwardness in new situations and when meeting new people. Different personalities come to play, they evolve, grow and learn. Something is achieved at the end, something that only can be experienced first-hand but can be felt through the screen. A u0026#39;must seeu0026#39; in America and the world.”