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Films

Facing the Falls

Facing the Falls

Check out Facing the Falls website for more details. https://facingthefalls.com The film tells the story of international disability rights advocate, Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan. Deep in the throes of an aggressive, fatal muscle-wasting disease and no longer able to walk unassisted, Cara ventures out on a daring, 12-day expedition through the Grand Canyon. Cara’s journey...
Left Alone Rhapsody

Left Alone Rhapsody

At 25, Leonard Bernstein’s protégé, John Bayless, debuted at Carnegie Hall, launching a 30-year-long recording career as a solo pianist, composer, and improviser. At 54, after a left-brain stroke immobilized his right side, John is determined to reinvent himself as a one-handed musician and storyteller.
Neurodivergent

Neurodivergent

In this profoundly personal mixed media experience inside the ADHD mind, the filmmaker takes us on a journey as she discovers her ADHD diagnosis during the height of the pandemic. When she turns the camera on herself and her family to process what this diagnosis means, she also discovers why so many women with ADHD...

Events

Music, Art, Film, & Discussion! Closing event for 2024 Season!

Music, Art, Film, & Discussion! Closing event for 2024 Season!

Saturday Nov 9 | 2:00 PM | Akron-Summit County Public Library
ReelAbilities Film Festival & Move for Life Mobility Fair

ReelAbilities Film Festival & Move for Life Mobility Fair

Thursday Nov 7 | 7:00 PM | Cuyahoga DD Big Creek Center
Reelabilities Joins the Neurodiverse Culture Festival for 2024!

Reelabilities Joins the Neurodiverse Culture Festival for 2024!

Sunday Oct 13 | 4:30 PM | Hiram House Camp

Guests

STEWART M. SCHULMAN

Stewart’s career as a director-writer-producer straddles the worlds of film and theater and encompasses techniques of both narrative and documentary storytelling.  His undergraduate studies in architectural design and photography at the University of Pennsylvania, coupled with filmmaking skills acquired at NYU’s graduate school of Film and Television inform the dynamic aesthetic of his award-winning work.   Stewart’s feature-length...

Venues

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Cuyahoga DD Big Creek Center

6149 W 130th St, Parma
OH 44130, USA
Tel: (216) 362-6450
https://cuyahogabdd.org/about-us/find-us/

Hiram House Camp

33775 Hiram Trail, Moreland Hills
OH 44022, USA
Tel: (216) 831-5045
https://hiramhousecamp.org/