Our documentary film Crip Camp tells the story of Camp Jened, a groundbreaking summer camp that galvanized a group of teens with disabilities to help build a civil rights movement and forge a new path toward greater equality.

The FWD-Doc Engagement Pack focuses on the processes of collaboration and audience engagement in documentary filmmaking, particularly with a view to social impact.

At the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, we’ve conducted numerous studies over the years showing that diverse and high-quality portrayals of women and girls are quite simply missing from children’s media.

Hollywood can help drive progress for women and families by improving narratives about gender, work, family, and care—and showing what supportive systems look like.

Television content created and viewed in the U.S. offers an incomplete picture of how people in this country experience care, leaving many who provide or depend on certain types of care — especially related to aging and disability — feeling alone, unseen, and undervalued.

The USC Norman Lear Center is led by Director Marty Kaplan and Managing Director Johanna Blakley. Special thanks to Veronica Jauriqui for project management and report design.