Film Kids

Film Kids is a documentary about teens with intellectual disabilities who wrote and starred in their own short films. It also captures the stories of their parents who recount how they came to find a specialist high school after facing obstacles such as gatekeeping - discrimination against people with disabilities in mainstream education.

This film explores some of the challenges faced by most families with a child with disability, even in Australia, a developed nation and a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD 2006). Many disability advocates call for inclusive education, where children of all abilities are in the same classroom, performing the same activities, with expectations of higher educational outcomes.

Terms such as 'segregated education' are often used to describe a system that divides students into two groups - mainstream and special. The current trend in Australia has seen an increase in specialist schools, a trend that advocates wish to see reversed, with resources poured into a single-track system.