EXCLUSIVE: The story of disability pioneer Sylvia Flexer is set for the big screen.Ben Lewis, director of The Sessions and The Catcher was a Spy, is to write and direct a feature film for Keshet Studios and White Lodge Productions.Sylvia and the President is the true story of a marginalized group of people and their fight for equality.
At the age of 21, outspoken Flexer – who walked with the aid of crutches – was elected president of the League of the Physically Handicapped.
It was the height of the Great Depression and, like Sylvia, the majority of the members had been affected by polio.Following their efforts to highlight government discrimination against disabled workers in New York, Flexer and 34 other members of the League rode all
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