ReelAbilities Film Festival showcases shorts, features, and documentaries about Deaf and disability cultures and by filmmakers and actors with disabilities and/or who are Deaf. This festival is online with a closing night hybrid presentation.
ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto, presented by Miles Nadal JCC, will screen 26 short and feature films in online presentations, followed by a hybrid in person/online closing night event at Wychwood Barns in Toronto.
ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto will open May 26 with Love is Access/"Access Is Love" - A Film Shorts Program featuring seven shorts that draw on themes of access and love, as Deaf and disabled people connect through care: For themselves, each other, and within community.
Highlights from the 2022 ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto include feature films: See For Me, a Canadian thriller directed by Randall Okita; Imperfect, directed by Brian Malone and Regan Linton, about a production of Chicago by an award winning disabled theatre group; Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children, directed by Barri Cohen, which recently had its world premiere at Hot Docs; and Any Given Day by filmmaker Margaret Byrne that documents the lives of three defendants with mental illness going through a specialized probation program designed to focus on mental health.
Pay What You Can
2022/05/26 - 2022/06/10
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ReelAbilities will also include the Accessible Production Masterclass on June 1; plus a talkback with filmmaker Barri Cohen on May 29; the Crip Futures Artist Talk organized with the support of School of Disability Studies Associate Professor Eliza Chandler, and Tangled Art + Disability’s Director of Programming Sean Lee on May 30; and In Conversation: Deaf Narratives on June 5 moderated by ReelAbilities Curatorial Committee member Natasha “Courage” Bacchus.
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7
All films will screen with open captioning• All films will screen with audio description as an option• All workshops, panels, and post-film discussions will feature live captioning and ASL