REEL TALKS

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Enjoy engaging post-screening discussions with filmmakers, subjects, and advocates from the ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York.

2025

Magnetosphere | Q&A with director Nicola Rose and actors Zooey Schneider and Mikayla Kong

DEAF PRESIDENT NOW | Q&A with director Nyle DiMarco

COLOR BOOK | Q&A with director David Fortune, actor Jeremiah Alexander Daniels, and parents Joy and Terrance

Rising Phoenix: A New Revolution | Q&A with director Sheridan O'Donnell and film team–Lauren Riddloff, Anastasia Pagonis, Caroline Casey, and Quemuel "Q" Arroyo

MARIA MONTESSORI | Q&A with director and writer Léa Todorov

SO DAMN EASY GOING | Q&A with Jenny Jagerfeld

Summer Brother | Q&A with director Joren Molter

The Paper Bag Plan | Q&A with director Anthony Lucero and actor Cole Massey

Life After | Q&A with director Reid Davenport

An Unquiet Mind + Tess: Living With OCD | Q&A with "An Unquiet Mind" film team and film subject Tess Lancaster

ReelShorts: (Deaf)iance | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

ReelShorts: DARK AND FUNNY | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

ReelShorts: (Neuro)Divergent | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

ReelShorts: Reflections | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

ReelShorts: Dream Big | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

2024

EZRA | Q&A with Director Tony Goldwyn, Writer Tony Spiridakis, Producer Bill Horberg, and Actor William Fitzgerald

La Lucha | Q&A with director Violeta Ayala

Okthanksbye | Q&A with actress Mae Van de Loo

Name Me Lawand | Q&A with director Edward Lovelace

Daruma | Q&A with director Alexander Yellen and actress Abigail Hawk

Left Alone Rhapsody | Q&A with pianist and subject John Bayless and Director Stewart Schulman

Tell Them You Love Me | Q&A with director Nick August-Perna and film subjects

Deaf Giants and Rally Caps | Q&A with directors Lee Cipolla and Peter Hoffman Kimball, and author Jodi Cutler

Sexual Healing | Q&A with film subject Evelien Spreitzer and director Elsbeth Fraanje

Good Bad Things | Q&A with Danny Kurtzman, Brett Dier and Steve Way

Loud Love | Q&A with Bing Wang, Brian Blais, Delbert Whetter, and Mara Stephens

Mental Health Shorts | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

Out of the Box Shorts | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

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