2019 Save the Dates!
*Films to be announced soon.
The fall festival theme is, Based on a True Story
September 18
6:00pm @ Gateway Film Center
October 16
6:00pm @ Gateway Film Center
October 17
7:00pm @ The Vanderelli Room
November 13
6:00pm @ The Gateway Film Center
2019 Partners
Promo by WOSU Broad and High on YouTube.
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.
Columbus is part of 
Visit our ReelAbilities National Site
Festival Accessibility
Contact VSA Ohio for more information and to request an accommodation.
Professional service accommodations should be requested 2 weeks in advance to ensure availability.
614-241-5325 or info@vsao.org.
*All films are Open Caption, Closed Caption, or subtitled, if a foreign film
To learn more about Festival Sponsorship contact
Erin Hoppe, 614-241-5325.
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
