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ReelAbilities Film Festival at Cinema Arts Centre
Promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities. Discussion after.
REELABILITIES FILM FESTIVAL
INTELLIGENT LIVES
Sunday, April 7 at 12 PM
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$11 Members | $16 Public
Followed by discussion with special guest TBA
Dan Habib's brave new documentary challenges what it means to be intelligent, and points to a future in which people of all abilities can fully participate in higher education, meaningful employment, and intimate relationships.
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INTELLIGENT LIVES stars three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities – Micah, Naieer, and Naomie – who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce. Academy Award-winning actor and narrator Chris Cooper contextualizes the lives of these central characters through the emotional personal story of his son Jesse, as the film unpacks the shameful and ongoing track record of intelligence testing in the U.S. (US, 2018, 70 min, English, NR | Dir. Dan Habib)
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THE DRUMMER AND THE KEEPER
Sunday, April 7 at 3 PM
$11 Members | $16 Public
Followed by discussion with special guest TBA
Recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the drummer of a rock band strikes up an unusual friendship with an institutionalized teen with Asperger's syndrome.
Gabriel (DERMOT MURPHY) is a chaotic young rock drummer desperate to hide his recent Bipolar diagnosis from his increasingly exasperated band mates. At the therapeutic mixed ability football game he's obliged to attend as part of his treatment Gabriel is spectacularly upended by goalkeeper Christopher (JACOB McCARTHY), an institutionalised 17-year-old with Aspergers Syndrome. Having taken violent revenge, Gabriel faces expulsion - and the prospect of being sectioned - unless he "makes friends" with Christopher. When the isolated and socially-inept young goalkeeper takes this grudging offer of friendship literally, Gabriel finds his footsteps dogged and secrets threatened by an embarrassingly eager and dangerously tactless new disciple. (Ireland, 2018, 94 min, English, NR | Dir. Nick Kelly)
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Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743
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