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How Do You Watch Movies if You Can’t See?

January 18, 2025

The individual with short hair and glasses is smiling near a microphone, donning a vibrant scarf and dark attire, set against an enigmatic backdrop.

Why don’t we see more blind peoples in movies? How are people with a visual impairment or blindness portrayed when we do? Hold on a second — can blind people watch movies at all? Yes. And how we represent and reflect people in films matters. Expert Cathy Kudlick joins Hans and Julia for a discussion about the film landscape as it stands today and what we can all do to hold filmmakers to a greater standard of storytelling that represents folks with disabilities with greater integrity.