Matt LauterbacH
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ACCESSIBILITY
Matt Lauterbach (he/him) is a filmmaker dedicated to the creation of rich layers of accessible storytelling. He founded All Senses Go in 2020 as part of an effort to build a filmmaking community that prioritizes access to captions, audio description, and accessible websites and screenings. All Senses Go clients have included Sundance Film Festival, International Documentary Association, SFFILM Festival, Full Spectrum Features, Kartemquin Films, and a range of individual filmmakers. Prior to starting All Senses Go, Matt was co-director from 2015 to 2021 of the Chicago ReelAbilities Film Festival, which screened accessible films by and about people with disabilities. He also serves as a Steering Committee member with the Cultural Access Collaborative, whose mission is to empower Illinois’ cultural spaces to become more accessible to visitors with disabilities. Matt is now an Adjunct Faculty member in the School of Cinematic Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, where he teaches one of the nation’s only courses in Accessible Cinema.
As a documentary film editor, Matt has crafted over a dozen documentaries, including: American Arab (2013, America ReFramed); There Are Jews Here (2016, America ReFramed); Unbroken Glass (2016, America ReFramed); and For the Left Hand (2021). He is currently working closely with artist Reveca Torres on her feature film debut, an Untitled Arts & Disability Culture Film that imagines how her disabled ancestors Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse lived and created. The film also engages in dialogue with a new generation of disabled artist-collaborators in Chicago.