In this psychedelic comedy, Heidi makes her seizures worse when she is struck with telekinesis and tries to become a firefighting hero; Subin is tasked by a cult with surveilling her but is torn when they become friends; and Lola finally stops being a fugitive from the cult when she realizes she can assassinate their leader instead.
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One year after the start of her still-undiagnosed seizures, she's chugging Fireball on the coffee table of a frat party with her service dog tied to an oven door, Heidi thinks she can stop being disabled through willpower alone. Now the telekinesis she thought would help is just another uncontrollable force.
Wishlist casting: New talent who is disabled by Ehlers-Danlos syndrome/Postural tachycardia syndrome
It’s an average day for Lola to be usurped by inter-dimensional dissociations while on the run from a cult. But when she’s helped for the first time by a stranger named Frankie, she realizes she doesn’t have to run. They can assassinate the cult leader together instead.
Wishlist casting: New talent who is disabled by dissociation or Dissociative Disorder
After being kicked out, Subin would do anything to not be homeless again; including intern at a cult. Trust becomes a hall of mirrors when the cult becomes his only family, and Heidi, the girl he’s tasked with surveilling, becomes his only friend.
Wishlist casting: Ki Hong Lee
Been Cult Leader since 2003, wears funny ties on casual Fridays, calls his co-workers his family and hires food trucks for them after their sacrificial rituals, but if you threaten the sanctity of Lord Petra your forgiveness will be paid in blood.
Wishlist casting: Nick Offerman
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Lola wants answers about her powers, but more importantly, she wants them gone, and setting up a GoFundMe page while hoping Area 51 would sweep her away has been less than successful. A mysterious lead brings her to her grandmother’s nursing home, where an explosive, super-powered moment shows Lola (and everyone else in the nursing home) that the rabbit hole goes far deeper than she ever imagined. The good news is that, due to the incident, her wish of being questioned by federal agents has been granted. The bad news is that they’re from the FDA. But when the door shuts behind Lola, the office stops dead in its tracks, and with a chill, every smiling face turns creakingly toward that door. Meanwhile, Heidi unearths that Big Titty Soomin from Biology has been stalking her, and decides to stalk him back. He leads her to the FDA office, where Charley and the cult are unloading furniture from the building.
Primary demographic:
18-24 years old, all genders
primary Psychographic:
the disabled community
Based on: the style of humor which matches that of the borderline between Gen-Z and Millennials, female and non-binary protagonists that are written by female and non-binary writers, the college-age of our characters, and pre-existing demographics of fantasy fans.
There are far more disabled people around you than you realize. 1 in 4 people in the US has a disability, 26% of America, 61 million adults (CDC). Globally, we make up 15% of the world’s population, 1 in 6 people, 1 billion people (UN). We are ONE OF the world’s
largest marginalized groupS.
And yet, only 2.5% of all speaking characters in the top 100 films (2017) and 2.1% of all series regulars on primetime broadcast programming (2019) were depicted with a disability.
Of that 2.5% sliver, more than two-thirds of these disabled characters were male, less than a third were female, despite the fact that the majority of disabled people are female identifying.
Writers with disabilities face the greatest inclusion-discrimination of all diversity groups according to WGA's 2018 Inclusion Report, making us less than 1% of all employed TV writers.
Speaking solely to the INSANELY loyal community of over 500,000 American service dog owners (not including the many hundreds of thousands more caretakers),
we could not find a single piece of major film or TV fiction that features a service dog.
"The total after-tax disposable income for working-age people with disabilities is about $490 billion, which is similar to that of other significant market segments, such as African Americans ($501 billion) and Hispanics ($582 billion);
Discretionary income for working-age people with disabilities is about $21 billion, which is greater than that of the African American and Hispanic market segments combined.
This is an untapped market with great purchasing power. Stories that feature characters with disabilities will reach and engage this community which seldom sees itself on television or film.”
Americans Institute for Research 2018, Media Access Awards, Writers Guild of America West
Disabled people have been silenced for so long that many of us don't even know who our disabled friends and neighbors are. To give a global audience an in-depth, accurate relationship with disabled people through Supercrip's story could provide us—real people with disabilities—an entirely new and better world of accessibility and understanding. De-stigmatizing service dogs, mental illness, and different-looking bodies could allow us to be safer and more comfortable in the real world.
The push to support disabled people is happening now, the only decision to be
made is whether you're going to lead the way, or fall behind.
"The dehumanization of disabled people in media has caused many of us to be feared, pitied, objectified, and even killed in real life. These depictions can make even us feel like we have to overcome our disabilities in order to be valuable (supercrip trope), or that the best thing we could do with our lives is just die (victim trope). But the truth is that disabled people are funny as shit, and we don’t always have to be “strong” to be good people, and that is the core of our story. As a chronically ill person, I’m passionate about writing Supercrip because it is part of my wild, lived experience, and I love it."
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Isabella Lo Russo
artfromisabella@gmail.com
@artfromisabella (she/he/they)
Hannah Maples
tree.rose13@gmail.com
@pots.and.paws
(she/her)
