Shared Resources

Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker’s own debt. Following their parents’ day-to-day lives and father’s progressing disability, the film uses open captions and visual descriptions to provide access to Blind and Deaf audiences and to reflect how their family sees themselves in the film. Meanwhile, as their parents and the filmmaker confront our very different understandings of debt and disability, the film asks what it means to owe each other everything.

The film is open captioned and audio described in English. Still image description: A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair stands next to a bald man wearing glasses, in front of an ocean and a cloudy blue sky. They both stare at the camera. A caption at the bottom of the image reads: "My mom and dad pose for the camera, standing on a pier".