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Matt Lauterbach

Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Matt Lauterbach is a filmmaker and accessible media artist. 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 more. Matt also serves as Programming and Communications Coordinator with the Cultural Access Collaborative, whose mission is to empower Illinois’ cultural spaces to become more accessible to visitors with disabilities. As a documentary film editor, Matt has crafted over a dozen documentaries, including: American Arab (2013, America ReFramed); The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2014, Independent Lens); Saving Mes Aynak (2014); There Are Jews Here (2016, America ReFramed); Unbroken Glass (2016, America ReFramed); ’63 Boycott (2017, WORLD Channel); and For the Left Hand (2021). He is an Adjunct Faculty member in the School of Cinematic Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, where he recently taught one of the nation's first courses in Accessible Cinema.