All Riders – The battle for accessibility told by those fighting it (Documentary, 2021)
The subway makes New York City tick. But getting around is a constant battle for disabled New Yorkers. After a freak accident pushed him into disability activism, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn works to expose the failures to grant the city’s largest minority fair access to public transportation.
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Director’s biography/filmography: Born in Brasilia, Brazil, Victor Dias Rodrigues’ first documentary short, The Ending of a Dream, sheds light on the realities of undocumented workers in New York City. The film received the Best Latino Project NYC award at the 2018 Latino Film Market and was screened as part of 2019 Docu Jam Showcase at the Paley Center for Media and at Make The Road, an immigrant rights and legal aid group in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Victor went on to Jigsaw Productions, working at EPIX’s Emmy-nominated docuseries Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time directed by Alisson Elwood. After graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Victor worked as a Production Consultant at The Othrs, a Brooklyn-based production company behind the Emmy-nominated The Great Hack on Netflix.
Director & Writer: Victor Dias Rodrigues
Director of Photography: Eli Kravetz, Elizabeth Vrkljan, Victor Dias Rodrigues
Composer: Grady Tesch
Editor: Victor Dias Rodrigues, Heidi Gelover
Producer: Branton Choi, Victor Dias Rodrigues
Production Company: Chalice Films
Subjects: Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Robert Acevedo, Michael Acevedo, Harvey Epstein, James Weisman, Luis R. Sepúlveda, Daniel Porro, Colin Wright, Jennifer Van Dyck, Tamika Goodson, Dontaysia Turner, Alex Elegudin
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