ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

ReelAbilities is a groundbreaking film festival that promotes awareness and appreciation of lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities, all through the easily accessible art form of film.

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Upcoming Films

march

26mar1:00 pm3:00 pmNo Bone: Scars of Survival

april

30apr1:00 pm3:00 pmMove Me

Past Films

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Blue Spectrum Virtual Concert

In conjunction with the film, ReelAbilities is thrilled to bring you a live concert from Columbus band, Blue Spectrum. Being livestreamed from the Lazy Chameleon 4028 Presidential Pkwy Powell, Oh 43065. Tune in on the ReelAbilities Columbus Facebook page on June 17, at 7PM. About the Band It was always Zayne Harshaw’s dream to have […]

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Any Given Day

DIRECTED BY MARGARET BYRNE 93 Min | English, Bulgarian | USA | | Documentary Feature | Open Captions | Audio Description City Premiere Filmmaker Margaret Byrne documents the lives of three defendants with mental illness going through a specialized probation program designed to focus on mental health. Byrne’s own mental health condition soon becomes tied […]

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Charon

SYNOPSIS: Myron Dyal is an artist with temporal lobe epilepsy who creates striking art inspired by the visions he has during his seizures. As reality starts to unravel around him, Myron struggles with accepting his epilepsy. CREDITS: Directed by Cullen Parr Title: Charon Category: Short Genre: Documentary, animation Running Time: 12 minutes Country: United States […]

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Mad to be Normal

David Tennant of Doctor Who fame stars as 1960’s celebrity psychiatrist R.D.Laing who revolutionised the treatment of people diagnosed as ‘mad’. ‘Mad To Be Normal’ reveals the story of R.D. Laing, the famous psychiatrist and one of Scotland’s greatest ever minds. Working out of Kingsley Hall in East London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Laing […]

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Meeting Intersectional Disability Aesthetics, Politics, and Culture

The newly re-emerging disability arts movement affirms that disability is more than the medicalized understanding of impairment as a deficit. This talk places creative access and intersectional disability aesthetics, culture, and politics at the heart of the creative process. Come meet Kinetic Light. Alice Sheppard is an emerging and Bessie award-winning choreographer, Sheppard creates movement that […]

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Verisimilitude

SYNOPSIS: An unemployed disabled actress is frustrated that all the disabled acting roles go to able-bodied actors. She gets a job as an advisor to a spoilt up-and-coming British film star, advising him on how to be disabled for his latest role, which might just win him a BAFTA. CREDITS: Directed by David Proud Title: […]

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ReelAbilities Columbus Presents: An Evening of Short Films

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus proudly presents: An Evening of Short Films –About the Films– Deaf Love — On a journey to meet the woman he loves, Paolo ends up on a wild and mysterious island. Directed by Michele Bertini Malgarini, 15 min Angel’s Mirror — A group of young boys are fascinated by a girl who spends her days […]

No Ordinary Hero: The Super Deafy Movie

Join us Wednesday, October 11th for a screening of the film No Ordinary Hero: The Super Deafy Movie. A deaf actor playing a superhero on a television show looks beyond his cape to help a deaf boy believe in himself. 6pm Happy Hour, Torpedo Room 7pm Film & Panel Discussion Professor Bill Bauer from Marietta […]

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Animated Shorts Festival in Two Parts

Crutch

Title: Crutch Category: Feature, Documentary Genre: Sport, Skateboarding, Disability, Dance Running Time: 93 minutes Country: U.S.A. Year: 2021 Language: English SYNOPSIS: Crutch chronicles the life of artist Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned breakdancer and skateboarder on crutches, as he uses his performance art skills to shine light on his prowess and power, tearing apart the […]

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