Join Rory Culkin and RJ Mitte Announced as Special Guests at the 7th Annual Reelabilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival

SHORTS
THE ASTRONAUT'S SECRET
Dir. Zach Jankovic
(USA, 30 min, Documentary)
In 1996, during a NASA Space Shuttle Mission, Michael “Rich” Clifford performed the first American spacewalk while docked at the Mir Space Station. Fifteen years later, Rich Clifford reveals that he had Parkinson’s disease while performing that spacewalk and that NASA knew of his ailment.
 
COACHING COLBURN 
Dir. Jeff Bemiss and Trinity College Film Class
(USA, 16 min, Documentary)
James Colburn was born with Fragile X Syndrome. At 26, he is a child at heart who finds joy in small things and uses his gift of comedic timing to inspire those around him.
 
GUEST ROOM
Dir. Joshua Tate
(USA, 14 min, Narrative)
A young woman with Down Syndrome grapples with her identity and her potential as a mother after an unplanned pregnancy with her boyfriend. Starring Lauren Potter from Glee.
 
THE GIFT
Dir. Spencer Harvey and Lloyd Harvey
(Australia, 16 min, Narrative)
Grace is forced to face her own sexuality and the strain on her marriage when her son Charlie, who has cerebral palsy, asks to lose his virginity for his birthday.
 
HEAR THIS!
Dir. Soulaima El Khaldi
(Netherlands, 15 min, Documentary)
10-year-old Tristan looks up to his dad, his soccer hero. But Tristan’s soccer club won’t let his dad become the trainer of his team because he is deaf. Tristan decides to prove them wrong.
 
THE HYPERGLOT
Dir. Michael Urie
(USA, 25 min, Narrative)
Jake speaks many languages but when it comes to the language of love he has a lot to learn.
 
THE KISS
Dir. Charlie Swinbourne
(UK, 7 min, Narrative)
When a couple on a first date strikes up a conversation with the couple on the next table, they find themselves witnessing a very unusual kiss.

ON BEAUTY
Dir. Joanna Rudnick
(USA/Kenya, 30 min, Documentary)
Photographer Rick Guidotti left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the restrictive parameters of the industry’s standard of beauty and re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to the shadows.
 
SUPER
Dir. Samara Hersch
(Australia, 6 min, Narrative)
A mockumentary in which a supermarket manager saves the business when he discovers his employees with disabilities have super powers.
 
MIDFIELD
Dir. Pedro Amorim
(Portugal, 6 min, Narrative)
A gorgeously realized profile of an ordinary workday in the life of a stevedore, who executes his job with surprising grace and simplicity — but when Sunday comes, an altogether different man emerges.
 
RIDING MY WAY BACK 
Dir. Robin Fryday
(USA, 29 min, Documentary)
When Staff Sergeant Aaron Heliker returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, third-degree burns, and nerve damage, he was introduced to the unlikeliest of saviors: a horse named Fred.
 
ROLLING ROMANCE
Dir. David Conley
(USA, 28 min, Narrative)
Orson and Janice, two twenty-somethings with muscular dystrophy, go on an Internet date.
 
Q FILM
Dir. Alice Elliot
(USA, 2 min, Documentary)
A man enters a pool area, gets out of his wheelchair, and goes for a swim.

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