October 2017
Wednesday, October 11
@ Gateway Film Center
6:00p - Happy Hour in the Torpedo Room
7:00p - Film Screening & Speaker, Professor Bill Bauer, "Why do we need a superhero?"
NO ORDINARY HERO: THE SUPER DEAFY MOVIE
Based on the internationally known SuperDeafy character, No Ordinary Hero (featuring Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin) is the evolution story of a hero in this family drama. While Tony Kane, a deaf actor who plays a superhero on television, looks beyond his cape to influence a deaf boy, Jacob Lang, to redefine what "being normal" means, he also finds inspiration to transform himself. Jacob is being bullied at school and is constantly misunderstood by his father. When Tony and Jacob’s paths cross, they inspire belief in each other and in themselves.
Access Amenities include:
- Physically accessible building
- Assistive Listening Devices
- ASL Interpretation
- CART Interpretation
- Open Captions
@ Gateway Film Center
6:00p - Happy Hour in the Torpedo Room
7:00p - Film Screening & Speaker, Professor Bill Bauer, "Why do we need a superhero?"
NO ORDINARY HERO: THE SUPER DEAFY MOVIE
Based on the internationally known SuperDeafy character, No Ordinary Hero (featuring Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin) is the evolution story of a hero in this family drama. While Tony Kane, a deaf actor who plays a superhero on television, looks beyond his cape to influence a deaf boy, Jacob Lang, to redefine what "being normal" means, he also finds inspiration to transform himself. Jacob is being bullied at school and is constantly misunderstood by his father. When Tony and Jacob’s paths cross, they inspire belief in each other and in themselves.
Access Amenities include:
- Physically accessible building
- Assistive Listening Devices
- ASL Interpretation
- CART Interpretation
- Open Captions
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Thursday, October 12
@ Ohio History Connection
6:00p - Adaptive Sport Vendor Fair & Reception
7:00p - Film Screening & Dialogue on inclusive sports
Thursday, October 12
@ Ohio History Connection
6:00p - Adaptive Sport Vendor Fair & Reception
7:00p - Film Screening & Dialogue on inclusive sports
ENDLESS ABILITIES
Four best friends drive across the country in search of adaptive sports for individuals who, like them, have with physical disabilities, and live to tell the story in a documentary film. Their cameras captured the reality of broken boundaries and common goals among all who are active -- from rehabilitation patients to Paralympic athletes. Through their journey, they learn that sports really are the great equalizer.
Access Amenities include:
- Physically accessible building
- Closed Captions
- Audio Description
Four best friends drive across the country in search of adaptive sports for individuals who, like them, have with physical disabilities, and live to tell the story in a documentary film. Their cameras captured the reality of broken boundaries and common goals among all who are active -- from rehabilitation patients to Paralympic athletes. Through their journey, they learn that sports really are the great equalizer.
Access Amenities include:
- Physically accessible building
- Closed Captions
- Audio Description
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Saturday, October 14
@ Lincoln Theatre
1:30p - Doors open; Sensory-friendly art-making with Shelbi Harris
2:00p - Family-friendly short film series
SHORT FILMS:
Strings (Cuerdas) - (11 min). María’s routine at school is altered by the arrival of a child who soon becomes her best friend.
Anything You Can Do - (7 min). Two boys face off. But when the stakes are at their highest, will victory be sweet?
Hear This! - (15 min). When 10-year-old Tristan wants his dad to become the trainer of his soccer team, the club won’t allow it because his father is deaf. Tristan decides to prove them wrong.
Picked - (8 min). A girl's quest for the "perfect" pumpkin sets her apart from her peers.
The Battle - (3 min). Kayah Guenther is a young artist struggling to find his place in the world. Born with trisomy 21, he narrates his story through dance.
Saturday, October 14
@ Lincoln Theatre
1:30p - Doors open; Sensory-friendly art-making with Shelbi Harris
2:00p - Family-friendly short film series
SHORT FILMS:
Strings (Cuerdas) - (11 min). María’s routine at school is altered by the arrival of a child who soon becomes her best friend.
Anything You Can Do - (7 min). Two boys face off. But when the stakes are at their highest, will victory be sweet?
Hear This! - (15 min). When 10-year-old Tristan wants his dad to become the trainer of his soccer team, the club won’t allow it because his father is deaf. Tristan decides to prove them wrong.
Picked - (8 min). A girl's quest for the "perfect" pumpkin sets her apart from her peers.
The Battle - (3 min). Kayah Guenther is a young artist struggling to find his place in the world. Born with trisomy 21, he narrates his story through dance.
Access Amenities include:
- Physically accessible building
- Assistive Listening Devices
- Closed Captions / subtitles
- Audio Description
- Sensory Friendly amenities: raised lights, lower sound, closed captions, free/open seating, move around, family bathrooms, sensory art experiences; please no strong perfumes or lotions.
Others to be announced; contact us to make a request.
Art-Making with Shelbi Harris!
Accessibility
Contact VSA Ohio for more information or to request an accommodation.
Professional service accommodations should be requested 2 weeks in advance to ensure availability (September 26).
614-241-5325 or info@vsao.org.
*All films are Open Caption, Closed Caption, or subtitled if a foreign film
Contact VSA Ohio for more information or to request an accommodation.
Professional service accommodations should be requested 2 weeks in advance to ensure availability (September 26).
614-241-5325 or info@vsao.org.
*All films are Open Caption, Closed Caption, or subtitled if a foreign film
2018
**Stay tuned for an exciting announcement about next year's festival.
Local and National Sponsors
To learn more about Festival Sponsorship
contact Erin Hoppe, 614-241-5325.
contact Erin Hoppe, 614-241-5325.
ABOUT REELABILITIES ReelAbilities is a groundbreaking film festival uniting dozens of partners and multiple screening locations throughout central Ohio. ReelAbilities Film Festival is the largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities, all through the easily accessible art form of film. Initiated in New York in 2007, the festival presents award-winning films by and about people with disabilities in multiple locations throughout each hosting city. Post-screening discussions and other engaging programs bring together the community to explore, discuss, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.
Festival Archive:
2016
Tuesday, September 20
@ Gateway Film Center
Tuesday, September 20
@ Gateway Film Center
2e: TWICE EXCEPTIONAL TRAILER #2 from Tom Ropelewski on Vimeo.
ABOUT 2e: TWICE EXCEPTIONAL: From the director of CHILD OF GIANTS: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange, 2e: Twice Exceptional follows the personal journeys of a unique group of high school students in Los Angeles who have been identified as “twice exceptional” – gifted or highly gifted individuals with learning disabilities or differences. They are geniuses, mavericks and dreamers – Malcolm Gladwell’s budding “outliers.”
ABOUT MARINA'S OCEAN: A group of countryside students are preparing a special trip to the beach. Marina, a 15-year-old girl with Down Syndrome, has a strong wish to visit the sea for the first time. Forbidden to travel with the other kids, Marina starts her own journey towards the Atlantic Ocean.
2015
2015 ReelAbilities Columbus Film Descriptions
2015 ReelAbilities Columbus Schedule of Events
2013
2013 ReelAbilities Columbus Festival Trailer (edited by Matt Swift)
ReelAbilities Columbus 2013 Press Release
2013 Press Release in Rich Text Format
2012
Highlight Reel from ReelAbilities Columbus 2012 (Video)
ReelAbilities Columbus 2012 BROCHURE.pdf
