About this Short Film
"Ability is a Choice" (Teagan Ryatt, Australia, 2025) is a short film that offers a thoughtful, humane look at life with Functional Neurological Disorder. Through intimate moments, it reflects on living with seizures, using a wheelchair and the everyday choices made by a young adult managing medical and physical disability. Teagan Ryatt presents an observation of resilience, frustration and small victories, inviting audiences to listen and learn rather than assume. Screened in the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival, this work fits our programme by highlighting personal experience and the varied ways people adapt and take control of their lives within health and disability contexts.
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Filmmaker
Teagan Ryatt is the filmmaker behind this entry. See every Focus on Ability entry from Teagan Ryatt.
Teagan thanks for the timely reminder that we can focus on our abilities rather than on the challenging circumstances we may be facing.
Great perspective You are very inspiring
Wow Teagan. What an advocate for focusing on abilities. What an Ambassador for FND. While you say your experience of FND is different for everyone that applies too to Downs Syndrome Autism and strokes. Your experience and insight is valuable not that you said it wasn't . Good luck with pursuing your creative endeavours