2016 ReelAbilities - Boston Disability Film Festival
Posted Monday March 28 2016 at 7:25 pm in News
Mark your calendars for this year's annual ReelAbilities - Boston Disability Film Festival, which starts on April 3, 2016 and ends on April 14, 2016.
ReelAbilities strives for inclusion of all people and is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with different abilities from a variety of communities. All venues are wheelchair accessible.
Highlights include:
TransFatty Lives: At 30, Patrick O'Brien was TransFatty, a New York City DJ, internet personality, and filmmaker. Then his legs started shaking. Transfatty Lives takes you on an emotional roller-coaster into the dark heart of ALS. As the director and star of his own documentary, Partick films every step of his debilitating journey for first diagnosis though paralysis. Forcefully lacking in self-pity, he captures the emotion, humor, absurdity of life as he makes art, gets political, falls in love, fathers a son, and fights depression. April 3, 2016 10:00 a.m., Showcase Cinema de lux Revere.
The Way He Looks: Leo, a blind teenager is determined to leave Sao Paolo to study abroad-to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. But Leo's plans change when he is paired on a school project with Gabriel. As the boy's interest in each other grows, Giovana begins to reveal her own feelings, growing increasingly jealous of Gabriel. April 4, 2016 6:30 p.m., Emerson College, Boston.
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