Fall 2019:
Based on a True Story

September 18 @ Gateway Film Center
Ballad from Tibet
5pm: Social Hour at the Torpedo Room (Inside Gateway Film Center)
6pm: Film

Based on a true story. Four young students from a school for the blind embark on an odyssey from their remote village in Tibet to the giant city of Shenzhen in order to sing on a TV talent competition. 

 Ballad from Tibet Trailer

October 18 @ Gateway Film Center
An Evening of Shorts
5pm: Social Hour at the Torpedo Room (Inside Gateway Film Center)
6pm: Films  

MISINTEPRETATION

Five short films on bullying, written and directed by Columbus's own Bridgeway Academy

Best Friend

A girl finds more than a best friend, when her parents let her adopt a dog.

Best Friend Trailer

The Barber of Augusta 

A salon owner dresses up as a superhero, and gives free haircuts to Toronto homeless. 

The Barber of Augusta Trailer 

Design-Ability

A Barcelona design studio harnesses the unique skills of a creative team including members with Down syndrome and autism.

Design-Ability Trailer 

October 17 @ Vanderelli Room 
Mind Over Matter
7pm: Film

A young man with Cerebral Palsy overcomes a paralyzed left hand, bullies, and stereotypes, dreaming of becoming a rck guitarist. Taking inspiration from the band Korn, his dreams become reality as he leads his own band, expressing himself through music. 

Mind Over Matter Trailer

November 13 @ Vanderelli Room
Workshop: "The Insanity Principles" with Linda Sibio
1-3pm

Taught by California painter and performance artist Linda Carmella Sibio, this workshop includes a variety of multilayered psychological techniques, tapping into memory, play, and personal narrative as a source for art making.

Free/Registration Required

For questions and to reserve a spot, please email mfitze@vsao.org or call VSA Ohio, 614.241.5325

Linda Sibio's website

November 13 @ Gateway Film Center
Mad to be Normal
5pm: Social Hour at the Torpedo Room (Inside Gateway Film Center)
6pm: Film

David Tennant stars as R.D. Laing,  the controversial physchiatrist who most famously treated patients diagnosed as "mentally disturbed" with LSD. His radical methods ouraged the 1960s and '70s London medical community, but they also led to a dramatic adjustment in attitudes toward mental illness round the world.  

Mad to be Normal Trailer

2019-2020 Partners

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
Megan Fitze, 614-241-5325.



Festival Archive

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.