Welcome, Educators!
We love hearing from you! Please let us know what types of classes you’re using FIXED in and how they like the film.
Who is teaching with FIXED?
When we were making FIXED, we never could have anticipated what a wide range of disciplines and audiences would end up connecting with the film and using it to spark discussion in classes from middle school through medical school. An evergreen title, the film has been a top seller consistently for the past ten years since its release with our distributor, New Day Films. We are truly humbled.
Here are some of the core areas where FIXED has found a home.
- Disability Studies
- Medical Ethics/ Bioethics
- Science & Technology Studies
- Sociology / Community Studies
- Medical schools
- Medical Humanities
- Psychology / Human Development / Counseling
- Philosophy / Religious Studies
- Physical & Occupational therapy programs
- Bioengineering/ Engineering / Biomechatronics
- Gender/ Womens Studies / Feminist Studies
- Social Welfare/ Social Work
- Public Health / Public Policy
- History (Eugenics in the U.S.)
- Prosthetic & Orthotic programs
- Environmental & Urban design / Architecture
- Dance/Performance studies
About
Short synopsis: Through a dynamic mix of verité, dance, archival and interview footage, FIXED challenges notions of normal, the body and what it means fundamentally to be human in the 21st century.
Key concepts include: ableism; access; adaptive technology; bioethics; biomechatronics; bionics; brain-machine interfaces; differing frameworks of understanding disability; disability arts and culture; emerging human enhancement technologies; exoskeletons; eugenics; genetics; health; humans 2.0; innovation; neuro-enhancement; performance enhancing drugs / smart drugs; prenatal screening; science; technology; transhumanism and more.
Details
Running time: 60 mins (56 mins plus credits). Includes Closed Captions, Video Description and French, Spanish, English and Portuguese subtitles.
For U.S. educational/institutional use, our educational distributor is NEW DAY FILMS. The film is available there via New Day streaming, DVD and Kanopy.
For international educational use and all home use orders, please order from our webstore.
Bring FIXED to colleges and community centers across the country by making a tax-deductible donation today to the FIXED Community Engagement Campaign!
Join the growing list of over 1000 educational institutions around the world who have ordered FIXED for their classrooms so far, including:
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University
- MIT
- University of California, Berkeley
- Vanderbilt University
- Concordia University
- Hiram College
- Ithaca College
- Macalester College
- McMaster University
- Stony Brook University
- University of Buffalo
- Arizona State University
- Ciência Viva- Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisbon, Portugal (science museum)
- Exploratorium Science Museum, San Francisco, CA
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Alberta
- and over 1000 more schools around the world!