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Our 50-Year Goal
Goal
We're building an Atlas of Human Dignity to document stories of disability and dignity across cultures worldwide. Our vision extends through 2072.
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Our mission is to preserve the voices, memories, and perspectives of people with disabilities and to revolutionize global perceptions of disability.
Our Mission
Mission
Mauritius
In Mauritius, young activists with disabilities confront a government eager to showcase its welfare system while hiding exclusion and neglect. As they risk everything to publish a shadow report, a couple with intellectual disabilities quietly dreams of marriage—an act of love that becomes a powerful emblem of the fight for dignity and inclusion.
What's in production?
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In Papua New Guinea, a group of local leaders brings eyeglasses to remote communities, where myopia can mean the difference between being seen as capable or written off entirely. What begins as a medical intervention becomes a quiet challenge to how intelligence and disability are understood.
Papua New Guinea
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Grady Bobbitt is a boy with a stutter who, due to his refusal to speak at trial, receives a life sentence for an armed robbery. Over the next five decades, he witnesses America's transformation from behind bars while undergoing a transformation of his own.
USA
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With your support, Everable mobilizes people with disabilities around the world to share their stories through one of our three programs.
What We Do
Programs
ATLAS16
THE STUDIO
Atlas16 is Everable’s film studio—a 50-year effort to create a cinematic record of human experience with people with disabilities at the center. Through documentaries, series, and original productions, it brings audiences into stories marked by depth, dignity, and shared life.
EVERABlE INSTITUTE
RESEARCH & CAPACITY-BUILDING
The Everable Institute strengthens the field of disability-inclusive storytelling through research, training, and global collaboration. It also develops long-term resources like the Disability Film Atlas, helping reshape how disability is understood across culture, history, and media.
DisAID
Boosting Advocacy & Funding Potential
DisAID connects underfunded but visionary disability groups with top industry leaders, paving the way for shared influence in shaping the future.
Founding Director
BIO
Michael Joseph McDonald is a filmmaker and nonprofit leader redefining storytelling through inclusive narratives. He has led initiatives across 50+ countries, pioneering adaptive filmmaking to elevate historically excluded voices.
His work includes Oscar-Longlisted and presidentially screened films, including one presented at the request of Pope Francis before a live audience of 3 million people. His animated short Freebird (2021) was described by the editor of Animation Magazine as “the best animation of the year.” His interactive sound sculpture, DisOrgan, premiered at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum.
McDonald’s films have screened at the White House, United Nations, and major festivals. Before founding Everable, he co-directed films with people with intellectual disabilities across six continents. His storytelling is shaped by his experience as a ghostwriter and personal caregiver.