Judging Panel: Sarah Barton

Sarah Barton is a 2010 Churchill Fellow with 30 years filmmaking experience mainly with the disability community. Her first film Untold Desires (1994) about sexuality and disability won the first Logie Award for SBS television and an AFI Award. In 2003 Sarah created and produced 70 episodes of the award winning disability community television series No Limits. In 2017 Sarahs feature documentary Defiant Lives about the disability rights movement premiered at Sydney Film Festival and also screened at the United Nations in New York. Sarah runs a video on demand service dedicated to streaming great films about disability. In 2024 Sarah was the key support person for her daughter Stella who competed in the Paris Paralympics in para-dressage.