insert_link Hollywood Indie Movie ‘Daruma’ Strives to Change the Way Disability is Portrayed in Hollywood Fed up with incorrect portrayals and the one-sided narratives in film and television of persons with disability, screenwriter Kelli McNeil set out to tell a story that was different from the usual Hollywood clichés. The real plot twist? Casting actors with the actual physical representations of the characters in the script: a paraplegic and a double amputee. "I wrote Daruma as a way to process my own grief after a […] todayJuly 19, 2019