Disability Film Festival Supports Sochi 2014

During a four-day period more than one hundred art documentaries and animated films from twenty countries about athletes with disabilities will be shown in Moscow as part of the IV International Disability Film Festival - "Cinema Without Barriers".

According to a Sochi 2014 press release the festival, which premiered Tuesday, "is an important step in preparing for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

For the first time in the history of the festival, a new category, "people with disabilities in sport", was introduced to attract public attention to the problems that people with disabilities face in their daily lives. State Duma deputy Mikhail Terentieve, who is also General Director of the Paralympic Committee of Russia, a member of the Sochi 2014 Supervisory Board, and a former Paralympic champion, presented the new category.

Terentiev said, "the presence of this festival in Moscow demonstrates the great attention Russia pays to the problems that people with disabilities face in their integration into normal life. The premiere is particularly timely as our country prepares to host the Paralympic Games in 2014".

Dmitry Chernyshenko, President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee said, "the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games will have state-of-the-art facilities fully adapted for people with disabilities. The Organizing Committee is focused on creating an atmosphere where athletes and guests fell both comfortable and supported".

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