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

Being Heumann - An Apple Original First Look Screening hosted by ReelAbilities

Conversation with Matthew Jeffers, Andrew Pilkington and Antwan Tolliver. Moderated by Lawrence Carter-Long

Future of Film: ReelAbilities | AMC+ and Sudnance Now | Meet the Filmmakers

2026

We Might Regret This | Q&A with co-creators Kyla Harris and Lee Getty

Concerto for Other Hands | Q&A with director Ernesto González Díaz

My Brain: After the Rupture | Q&A with director Ursula Macfarlane and subject Clemency Burton-Hill

Disposable Humanity | Q&A with director Cameron S. Mitchell

My Everything | Q&A with director Anne-Sophie Bailly

Horsegirls | Q&A with actress Lillian Carrier

Dream Touch Believe | Q&A with director Jenna Naranjo Winters

Westhampton | Q&A with director Chrisian Nilsson and actors RJ Mitte and Roxanne Schiebergen

Viktor | Q&A with producer Brendan Naylor

No One Cares About Crazy People | Q&A with director Gail Freedman, editor Dina Potocki, and subjects Carmelo and Kendra Vurgos

96 Lbs of Dynamite | Q&A with director Loren Goldfarb and subject Chad McDaniels

ReelShorts: Against the Current | Q&A with filmmakers, protagonists and subjects

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

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

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

Josh Sapan Keynote

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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