Unstoppable: Award Winning 2025 Documentary, Disposable Humanity Scores at 31st Slamdance Festival.

Out of nearly two thousand entries, 146 films were selected for the 2025 Slamdance Film Festival in Los Angeles. Disposable Humanity captured the Audience Award and received an Honorable Mention for the Slamdance Unstoppable Feature Grand Jury Prize.

In Disposable Humanity, a profound, unforgettable documentary of historic disability injustice, Cameron Mitchell and his family guide the viewer down corridors of Nazi era eugenical horror into a past that many of us think we know but don’t.

Tim Stainton, Director of the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship once called Canada’s eugenical descent into assisted suicide and euthanasia, “the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazi’s program in Germany in the 1930s”.

For anyone engaged in fighting health disparities and disability discrimination today, it becomes plain by the end of the film that the present-day creep of assisted suicide laws in America has an essential part of its ancestry rooted in the international ideas, language and maps of Aktion T4 – the Euthanasia Program of yesterday.

In vivid sequence, Disposable Humanity bears witness to the philosophical underpinnings of The Final Solution through a primary disability lens. This moving, living memorial reminds us that without the initial unchallenged idea that disabled lives are lives worth less than others, over 300,000 lives might have been saved, and the Holocaust might have been just an exercise in exile, rather than extermination.

Disposable Humanity is a production about, by and for people with disabilities and their families and friends and is essential viewing.

Ian McIntosh

Interim Executive Director