Ariel Baska is a multi-award-winning, multiply Disabled queer horror and documentary filmmaker, who believes in advocacy and accessibility for historically underserved communities. Their work has played on Alaska Airlines, and at film festivals from Berlin to Mexico City to Mumbai. They have presented with Lincoln Center, SXSW (South by Southwest) and the Berlinale on various topics in disability and accessibility in the film and television industry. They are the creator and festival director of ACCESS:HORROR, a film festival and industry summit celebrating the history, future and impact of disability and horror. Their work in progress, Monstrous Me, is a horror memoir and documentary feature about finding themselves as a disfigured child in the face of Freddy Krueger. The project won a grant from Virginia Humanities, and multiple fellowships in the last few months. Regardless of what story they’re telling or what work they’re doing, they care passionately about the margins.