ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

01/17/2023

An award winning theater group consisting of actors who live and perform with the uniqueness of disability set out to claim their place in the spotlight with a production of the beloved Chicago. Following these actors’ lives inside and outside the theater, curtains are drawn open to overlooked talent and the power of the human condition in all its many forms.

Join us this Sunday for our first ReelAbilities screening of the year!!

10/19/2022

Submissions deadline for the 2023 ReelAbilities International Film Festival is now extended through November 1st!

For info & submissions, visit: https://filmfreeway.com/ReelAbilities

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10/12/2022

This October, ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus presents "Out in the Open" a short film about the deteriorating mental health of the student body and the resources available on campus at the Ohio State University.

Written by two OSU Alumni, Johnny Elder and Jenna Friel.

The film precedes the feature length documentary, 'Any Given Day.'
A panel on "Creating a Community of Care” will immediately follow the films.

Date/Time: October 16th, 1PM
Where: The Wex's Film/Video Theater
Tickets: FREE tickets available at the door or by clicking the link in our bio.

Both films will be shown with open captions
All films and panel are supported by a grant from ADAMH of Franklin County.

ID: : Film Still for Out in the Open: A statue of Brutus Buckeye faces a brick Parking Garage on Lane Avenue on the Ohio State Campus. A black band underneath the still with the closed caption icon and the text, "Out in the Open, October 16th"

09/18/2022

We’re so excited for our screening of I Didn’t See You There!!! Today at 1 and 3:15 the movie will be at the Wexner Center For the Arts FOR FREE!!!

09/07/2022

Free tickets are officially up for "I Didn't See You There" screenings Wexner Center for the Arts on September 18th.

The festival's opening day includes a visually described tour and reflective workshop, two film screenings, and a director talkback.

Screening times & Director's Talk--
1:00 PM- "I Didn't See You There" screening (open captions)
2:30 PM- Film Talk-Back with Director/Artist Reid Davenport (ASL and CART provided by provided by Ohio State’s ADA Coordinator’s Office)
3:15 PM- "I Didn't See You There" screening (open audio description and open captions)
How to Access Tickets:
Tickets are free and required. Find them at the door or get them online at the following link: my.wexarts.org/events/3246

Questions? Contact [email protected]

09/01/2022

Sunday, September 18 at 1 PM, the Wex launches an extended partnership with Art Possible Ohio to present films selections for ReelAbilities Film...

08/27/2022

Our film festival will kick-off at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 18, 2022, at the Wexner Center’s Film Video Theater, with a screening of Sundance award-winning film, I Didn’t See You There, produced by director Reid Davenport. The documentary showcases Davenport’s unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility, and the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show, spurred by a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment. Davenport will join after the screening via Zoom for a discussion following the film. We're having a second screening at 3:15 p.m. with open audio description for individuals with vision-related disabilities. We're so excited and can't wait to see you there!

05/03/2022

RIP Susan Nussboum. Susan not only created an astonishing film, but participated in our film talk-back in our 20/21 ReelAbilities season. Sending love and peace to Susan’s family and friends.

Saddened to learn of the passing our good friend and filmmaker of our 2020 Opening Night Film : Susan Nussboum. Susan was a strong playwright and activist who pushed for better representation for and inclusion of disabled people in the media. Her hard work and powerful words are honorable and she will be greatly missed.

Susan expresses her hope on what audiences will take away from Code of the Freaks in ReelAbilities' post-film Q+A:
https://bit.ly/3kw1gus

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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Susan Nussbaum, a curly-haired woman with glasses, sits in her wheelchair, listening to an interview that is being projected on the video camera beside her.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Susan Nussbaum answers a question for a post-film Q+A of Code of the Freaks. She is on a recorded Zoom call with director Salome Chasnoff and film participants Lawrence Carter-Long and Mat Fraser. Susan's words are interpreted in ASL by Brandon Kazen-Maddox.

11/19/2021

Congrats Marlee!

At the Media Access Awards on Wednesday, honoree Marlee Matlin summed up the mood by saying that when she came to Los Angeles in 1985, “words like equality and access were so far outside the …