“Disposable Humanity” Screening

This film is premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival. If you have any questions, please contact press@slamdance.com.

Showings: Fri, Feb 21st, 7:15 PM @ LA Times Theater @ Quixote \\ Sat, Feb 22nd, 5:30 PM @ Summer & David Theater @ Quixote

The Mitchell family, a family of Disability Studies scholars and filmmakers, has researched The Nazi Aktion T4 program since the 1990s. Through conversations with memorial directors, disabled people, and relatives of T4 victims they uncover the horrifying truth: that the Nazi Aktion T4 program, was in fact the program where the Nazis trained killing staff and designed the apparatus of mass murder that led to the Holocaust. Disabled people were the first victims to be killed under the Third Reich and in this investigative documentary, the Mitchells reveal how this history has been covered over and erased from international public memory.

The screening of Disposable Humanity will feature the attendance of world-renowned Disability Studies professor David T. Mitchell. The film includes contributions from several major historians, such as Robert Jay Lifton, author of The Nazi Doctors, and Patricia Heberer Rice, senior historian at the USHMM. The director is a distinguished Local 600 cinematographer and filmmaker with over a decade of major credits, including work on Molly’s Game, Paint, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, and Iron Fist. Steve Way serves as an Executive Producer, known for his work on Hulu’s Ramy and his groundbreaking career as a comedian, having opened for Jon Stewart and Ramy Youssef, among others.