Is There Anybody Out There?

From Women Make Movies

Directed by Ella Bee Glendining

87 minutes / Color
English / English subtitles
Release: 2023

Born with no hip joints and short femurs, a condition so rare that there is little reliable information about it, Ella Glendining decides to go in search of people who can share their experience and feelings about having a body like hers. In doing so, she challenges lazy ableist assumptions, experiences a number of unexpected surprises and encounters people who look like her. With great warmth and an infectious joy for her body and life as it is, Glendining challenges us to question the way we see others, like and unlike ourselves. IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? is a revelatory film that gently tugs at the viewer’s biases and looks to a day when inclusivity is no longer an ‘issue.'

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Main credits

Glendining, Ella Bee (film director)
Glendining, Ella Bee (on-screen participant)
Marmot, Janine (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, Annemarie Lean-Vercoe; editing, Claire Ferguson, Rachel Roberts; music, Erland Cooper.


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Keywords
Congenital Femoral Deficiency,Proximal femoral focal deficiency,PFFD,Ableist,Ableism,physical disabilities,Ella Glendining,bias,Disabilities; "Is There Anybody Out There"; Women Make Movies
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Ella Bee Glendining

Selected Accolades

  • Silver Horn Social Issues Award, Krakow FF 2023
    FIPRESCI Award, Krakow FF 2023
    Bring The Change Award - Arca di Noè, Biografilm Festival 2023
    Nominee, Best Debut Director - Feature Documentary, British Independent Film Awards
    Sundance Film Festival
    South by Southwest Film Festival
    Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
    Hot Docs Film Festival
    Sydney Film Festival
    Doc NYC
    Sheffield Documentary Film Festival