Reel Life 5: "Short Subjects, Big Impact" - a Disability Film Festival
Sunday, August 30, 2009 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM (ET)
Detroit, MI
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Join us for Reel Life 5:
"Short Subjects, Big Impact"!
Film is a powerful way to communicate across cultures and experiences. Reel Life: A Disability Film Festival is about celebrating the lives of people with disabilities and the rich and varied disability culture that has developed to express the unique experiences and perspectives of the disability community. It is also about repairing the fractures and misunderstandings between people with different types of disabilities and about enlightening the non-disabled world about the reality of life with disability.
This is the fifth Reel Life Disability Film Festival. Since its inception, the festival has screened over 100 films from countries from all over the world depicting people with every facet of disability. This edition of Reel Life will feature short subjects under 30 minutes. These films will prove that good things come in small packages, as filmmakers compress powerful messages, drama, comic truth, and breathtaking images into films that you will remember far longer than their length.
Tickets: Tickets: $6.26 in advance ($5 + $1.26 handling fee) or $10 suggested contribution at the door.
Buying your ticket in advance gets you access to reserved seating in the front. 15,000 people attend the People's Art Festival - it could be packed!
Schedule: from 12-1 the young adults from the VSA arts afterschool program will be drumming with Baba Kevin Collins and dancing with Portia Anderson Fields.
Films will be shown for approximately 30 minutes, followed by a 5 minute break to allow people to leave and enter. A film schedule will be posted by August 27th.
Accessibility: The space is wheelchair accessible. Sign language interpreters, Braille, audio description on request. This is the weekend of the People’s Arts Festival and if you have chemical sensitivities you may want to skip this. Send request to: reellifedisabilityfilmfestival@gmail.com Accommodation requests only available for advance ticket purchasers.
Location: Russell St. Bazaar Exhibition Space. From 1-75 take
exit-54 E. Grand River / Clay Ave. Turn onto Clay Ave heading East
toward the Russell Industrial Center. Make a right into the complex and
follow the signs through to the Russell Bazaar. Go into the Bazaar and
go to the far left to the Exhibition Center.
Call for entries: Films 30 minutes and under
will be considered. Films must relate to disability culture, history,
rights, or living life with a disability. Send info ASAP to
reellifedisabilityfilmfestival@gmail.com
Program Advertising & Sponsorship: Inexpensive opportunities available, in addition to sponsorship of sign language interpreters.
Next year? Absolutely. Date TBA. Follow Susan/IDEAAS on Twitter, Linkedin, or Facebook ----/susanfitzm or VSAarts of Michigan on Twitter /vsami to be in the know!
For more information about the history of the film festival: http://www.Disabled Soapbox.org
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IDEAAS: Information on Disability for Education, Empowerment, and Support.This is an online endeavor of Susan Fitzmaurice to combine the many projects she undertakes, including the Katrina Disability Crisis Intervention Site, the Disabilty & Sexuality Support Site, the Ashley X site, and Teddy's Ts. To learn more, go to http://www.disabled-soapbox.org.
VSA arts of Michigan seeks to create an inclusive society where peple with disabilities participate in, learn through, excel in, and enjoy the arts.
VSA arts of Michigan provides afterschool opportunities for children and young adults with disabilities to experience the arts in its many forms. It also supports artists with disabilities who want to make art their career. It is located at 100 West Alexandrine, Detroit, 48202. It's website is: http://www.vsami.org
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