AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: BEST ADVOCACY DOCUMENTARY SHORT - Coronado Island Film Festival | AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD! - New York City Short Film Festival
Disability • Resilience • Adaptive Technology • Engineering • Science • Veteran
Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 16 minutes | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Co-Directors & Co-Producers: Rachel Kittner & Alex Halpern
A team of wheelchair-using tech engineers at the University of Pittsburgh are leading a movement to open up the world to the physically challenged. They take their own spiritual and physical hazards as inspiration for adaptive technology and inventions that provide the means for others to have more mobile and productive lives.
University of Pittsburgh Swanson Engineering
Smoothing Out the Bumps in the Road
AWARDS
Audience Award Winner: Best Advocacy Documentary Short | Coronado Island Film Festival
Audience Choice Award! | New York City Short Film Festival