Our Mission

Viz-Ability is a movement dedicated to showcasing, empowering, and advancing disabled creatives in film, television, and animation. As an emerging premier event in the entertainment industry, Viz-Ability creates a résumé-forward platform where talent, experience, and achievements are recognized on their own merit.

More than a gallery, Viz-Ability serves as a bridge between disabled talent and the industry they help shape by connecting creatives with the studios, networks, productions, executives, organizations, and decision-makers who can help move their careers forward. We believe visibility should be more than representation; it should be a pathway to connection, opportunity, and employment.

Through visibility, connection, and advocacy, Viz-Ability works to turn recognition into opportunity while challenging an industry that continues to underrepresent disabled people both on screen and behind the camera. Our goal is to help build a Hollywood where disabled creatives are not simply seen, but recognized, connected, hired, and empowered to shape the future of entertainment.

Why Viz-Ability?

People with disabilities remain significantly underrepresented across film, television, and animation.

In the top 100 films of 2024, only 2.4% of speaking characters were depicted with a disability -- a figure unchanged from 2015 (source).

Only 20 of those 100 films featured a disabled lead or co-lead character.

In the top theatrical films of 2023, actors with a known disability accounted for 7.1% of cast roles, while only 1% of actors had a visible disability.

In 2024 theatrical films, approximately 55.3% had no actors with a known disability in their main cast.

In U.S.-scripted Netflix films and series, only approximately 2.4–2.6% of speaking characters had a disability in 2023 (source).

Representation behind the camera -- including disabled writers, directors, and producers -- remains largely untracked or underreported, making the full scope of the industry's employment gap difficult to measure (source).

These numbers reveal a persistent gap between the presence of disabled people in society and their visibility, and opportunities, in entertainment.

Viz-Ability exists to help close that gap. We believe disabled creatives should not have to be exceptional to be visible, nor invisible to be considered. Their work, experience, and talent deserve to be seen, valued, and given the opportunity to move their careers forward.