Company Overview: Currently, people with disabilities are an invisible presence in the Canadian media. Lights, Camera, Access! is adjusting this picture. LCA! connects this talented culture to employment opportunities in Canada's entertainment, arts and digital media industries. Be reflected on our screens and create the stories behind the scenes. Change your media lens, engage in inclusion!
Mission: LCA! is a provider of a network of services to advance the presence and participation of persons with disabilities in the entertainment and media industries.
Leesa Levinson is the Founder and Executive Director of Lights, Camera, Access!, a non-profit organization with charitable status. She is a working actor and is involved in numerous film and television projects, commercials and voiceover work, as well as live theatre.
Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 16, Leesa continued to pursue acting and academics (Fanshawe College and Ryerson University’s Radio and Television Broadcasting programs). Leesa’s commitment to her acting career includes making changes in Toronto’s entertainment industry. As an active member of ACTRA Toronto for over 15 years, she was on their Diversity Committee as an Advocate for Members with Disabilities, where she focused on promoting the inclusion of talent with disabilities as mainstream in our media.
Currently Leesa is a board member for the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and is a public adjudicator with the CBSC (Canadian Broadcast Standards Council). Leesa is a former board member of WIFT-T (Women in Film and Television-Toronto), the Abilities Arts Festival and the Scarborough Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. She has made a long-term commitment to advocacy through her numerous volunteer, Board/committee and professional activities related to her field.
Leesa was awarded the 2011 Bob Marley Day Award. It recognizes individuals and organizations that play a leadership role in building bridges with our diverse communities. She has also been involved in several coalitions working towards the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the arts/media (e.g. MAP, Projections-Toronto’s first International Film Festival, and Access 2 Entertainment National Advisory Group). She has consulted for the CRTC, CAB, ACTRA Toronto, ACTRA Fraternal and the BBC, as well as the Media Access Office in Hollywood, California, and the U.S. Screen Actors’ Guild Disabilities Committee. Leesa is passionate and speaks regularly at industry events internationally and continues to actively aspire to learn, advocate and promote change in the Canadian entertainment industry.
Ontario Media Development Corporation's Celebrate Ontario event. LCA! E.D. and OMDC board Member Leesa Levinson and Rahima Mulla
LCA! attends "And Justice for All" at the TIFF Bell Light Box. Leesa comments: "Our community of people with disabilities can relate to many of the themes in Norman Jewison's films--social injustice and inequality."
LCA! members presenting at the installation commemorating Marshall McLuhan on his 100th birthday.
Leesa Levinson on location at the Banff World Media Festival.
Photos from People in Motion 2011, June 3-4.
New member Courtney singing a duet with Shawn Bush.
A scene from our On Camera workshop on the set of S.I.R.T (Screen Industries Research and Training Centre) at Pinewood Toronto Studios.
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