KingCrip Productions is an ever-shifting collective of amateur video artists
who create activist-oriented videos. KingCrip's two founders are Melisa Brittain and Danielle Peers
who create activist-oriented videos. KingCrip's two founders are Melisa Brittain and Danielle Peers
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Melisa BrittainMelisa (they/them) lives, teaches and creates collaborative video art in Edmonton, Alberta. As co-founder of KingCrip Productions, they have co-directed, edited and produced four videos that have screened at international film festivals, and at activist, arts, and academic events across North America. They also collaborated with Lucas Crawford on the short video Elephant in the Room (4:36, 2012). A scholar by trade, Melisa learned video making through hands-on experimentation with KingCrip collaborators, and with the help of local video and media arts organizations: FAVA (Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta) and the Intermedia Research Studio (University of Alberta). Melisa uses video as an extension of critical thought to expose normative ideas, images, and identities, and to document creative modes of resistance.
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Danielle PeersDanielle is a community organizer, an artist, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. They are also a Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures. They use critical disability theories to study disability movement cultures: from the Paralympics, to inclusive recreation, to disability arts. Danielle has made seven activist-oriented films, co-curated three art shows, and co-founded two arts collectives.Their research builds on their experiences as a Paralympic athlete, parasport coach, a filmmaker, and a dancer . Danielle is co-director of the Just Movements CreateSpace, which takes arts-based and disability justice approaches to generating and sharing knowledges about bodies in motion.
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