FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement

Synopsis

From botox to bionic limbs, the human body is more “upgradeable” than ever. But how much of it can we alter and still be human? What do we gain or lose in the process? Award-winning documentary, Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, explores the social impact of human biotechnologies. Haunting and humorous, poignant and political, Fixed rethinks "disability" and "normalcy" by exploring technologies that promise to change our bodies and minds forever.

* Winner of 3 festival awards: * “Best of the Festival” (Superfest International Disability Film Festival), “Harris Jury Prize for Best Film” (Reel Abilities Film Festival), and “Best Feature Documentary” (Picture This International Disability Film Festival)

* Winner of “Top 10 DVDs of the year” by School Library Journal

* Awarded 3 1/2 stars by Video Librarian

* Highly successful American Public Television broadcast run on PBS stations around the country, 2015–2018

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Our Role

Regan Brashear produced and directed the film, with Making Change Media serving as the impact producing team for the documentary, which has screened in 30+ festivals in 16 countries, as well as being a top seller in New Day Films for over five years. Making Change Media organized a robust community engagement campaign for FIXED targeting disability advocacy communities, as well as high schools, colleges, and science museums. It is now taught widely in disability studies, sociology, and science studies curriculums in hundreds of high schools, colleges, universities, and medical schools worldwide. Since its release, Brashear has travelled extensively with FIXED, sharing the film with audiences of all ages, beginning with its premiere, a sold-out event at the National Science Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, for the EU’s Neuro Enhancement Responsible Research Initiative. In 2014, the University of Rochester organized a day-long symposium — “Complicating Normalcy: Disability, Technology, and Society in the Twenty-First Century” — centered on FIXED.