Malat Wei plays wheelchair basketball in a circle of friends

ReelEducation 2021 Announced Programs and Events

Bring the message of inclusion to your school with free educational programming from ReelEducation.

Published
January 13, 2021

ReelEducation 2021 Announced Programs and Events

Bring the message of inclusion to your school with free educational programming from ReelEducation.

Published
January 13, 2021

ReelEducation provides free educational programming for Houston-area schools, allowing students the opportunity to think about their own perceptions of people with disabilities and learn about what it means to be inclusive. To sign up for a ReelEducation program, please visit our registration page.

Throughout the week of February 8-12, ReelEducation will hold three events daily from 9:00-10:00 AM, 10:30-11:30 AM and 1:00-2:00 PM. A wide variety of film and program options, suitable for students from elementary school to high school, are available. Each program will include that students can ask questions and learn from.

Monday, February 8th

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Appropriate for elementary school students

Macropolis

Disability Represented: Physical

Director: Joel Simon

Animated/Narrative, 7 min, UK, English

Description: Two toys made at a factory are thrown out, and together attempt to be put on a store shelf.

Ian

Disability Represented: Cerebral Palsy

Director: Clara Mortola

10 min - Narrative

Description: Ian was born with cerebral palsy. All he wants is to make friends, although it seems impossible to achieve when discrimination and bullying keep him away from his beloved playground. However, this young boy is determined and won’t give up easily.

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Appropriate for all ages

Unteachable

Disability Represented: Dyslexia

Director: Anthony Sherin

11 min -Documentary - English - United States

Description: Imagine you can’t read this. Imagine you are afraid to tell anyone. Imagine thinking it is all your fault. You reach fifth grade but you have yet to read a two syllable word. You can’t spell your name. You are unteachable. Now imagine a teacher who changes everything. In the buildings of an abandoned military base near his home on Cape Cod, Daniel enters Mrs. Gott’s fifth grade classroom. "Unteachable" is about the moment Daniel’s life changes.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Appropriate for middle and high school students

Unstuck

Disability Represented: OCD

Director: Kelly Anderson

Documentary, 24 min, USA, English

Description: Children with OCD describe their experience while their families and loved ones yearn for ways to help them.

Tuesday, February 9th

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Appropriate for elementary school students

Macropolis

Disability Represented: Physical

Director: Joel Simon

Animated/Narrative, 7 min, UK, English

Description: Two toys made at a factory are thrown out, and together attempt to be put on a store shelf.

Best Friend

Disability Represented: Multiple Disabilities

Director :Cory Reeder

Narrative, 7 min, USA, English

Description: After moving across the country, a little girl finds more than a best friend when her parents let her adopt a dog.

A film still from 4 Quarters of Silence

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Appropriate for all ages

4 Quarters of Silence

Disability Represented: Deafness

Documentary, 17 min, USA, English

Description: Follow the road to success of the Texas School for the Deaf Rangers, as the only high school football team serving Deaf students takes on a competitive league.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Appropriate for middle and high school students

Mr. Connolly has ALS

Disability Represented: ALS

Director: Dan Habib

Documentary, 32 min, USA, English

Description: A beloved high school principal continues to lead, despite rapidly losing his abilities to ALS.

Wednesday, February 10th

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Appropriate for elementary school students

Anything You Can Do

Disability Represented: Physical

Director: Emma Buckley

Narrative, 7 min, Australia

Description: Game on! Two boys face off in a back room. The competition is fierce. Faces are pulled, grapes are thrown and burps are unleashed. But when the stakes are at their highest will victory be sweet?

Ian

Disability Represented: Cerebral Palsy

Director: Clara Mortola

10 min - Narrative

Description: Ian was born with cerebral palsy. All he wants is to make friends, although it seems impossible to achieve when discrimination and bullying keep him away from his beloved playground. However, this young boy is determined and won’t give up easily.

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Appropriate for all ages

Henry O’

Disability Represented: Blindness

Director: Ziad H. Hamzeh

Documentary, 14 min, USA, English and Spanish

Description: HENRY O! tells the story of Enrique (Henry) Oliu, a man blind since birth, who has made his major league baseball dream come true. Calling upon his love for sports and an encyclopedic memory for facts and figures, Henry hears the crack of the bat and knows if it's a single, double, or home run; he listens for the ball singing into the catcher's mitt and knows if it's a curve ball, fastball, or changeup. Henry is the analyst for the strongest Hispanic station in Florida's Tampa Bay Market.

A film still from CODA

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Appropriate for high school students

CODA

Disability Represented: Deafness

Director: Erika Davis-Marsh

22mins - Narrative - English, American Sign Language - USA

Description: A young dancer struggles with her bi-cultural identity when she meets a confident young Deaf man who stirs up conflicted feelings about growing up hearing in a Deaf family.

Thursday, February 11th

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Appropriate for all ages

Henry O’

Disability Represented: Blindness

Director: Ziad H. Hamzeh

Documentary, 14 min, USA, English and Spanish

Description: HENRY O! tells the story of Enrique (Henry) Oliu, a man blind since birth, who has made his major league baseball dream come true. Calling upon his love for sports and an encyclopedic memory for facts and figures, Henry hears the crack of the bat and knows if it's a single, double, or home run; he listens for the ball singing into the catcher's mitt and knows if it's a curve ball, fastball, or changeup. Henry is the analyst for the strongest Hispanic station in Florida's Tampa Bay Market.

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Appropriate for all ages

On Beat

Disability Represented: Deafness

Director: Cheng Zhang and Reid Davenport

Documentary, 7 min, USA, English

Description: A look inside the family life of Deaf parents, their hearing children and the music that unites them.

JMaxx and the Universal Language

Disability Represented: Autism

Director: Ryan Mayers

13 min -Documentary - English - United States

Description: Jarell is teenager with autism who has learned to use hip-hop dance as a means to communicate his true self to the world.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Appropriate for all ages

No Limits Wheelchair Basketball

Disability Represented: Physical Disabilities

Director: International Committee of the Red Cross

Documentary, 12 min, USA, English

Description: "No Limits” is a short film about the unlikely friendship between two disabled athletes – one from the U.S. and the other from South Sudan – and their improbable journey from Washington D.C.to Juba in a bid to bring wheelchair basketball to the survivors of war.

Friday, February 12th

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Appropriate for elementary and middle school students

Anything You Can Do

Disability Represented: Physical

Director: Emma Buckley

Narrative, 7 min, Australia

Description: Game on! Two boys face off in a back room. The competition is fierce. Faces are pulled, grapes are thrown and burps are unleashed. But when the stakes are at their highest will victory be sweet?

On Beat

Disability Represented: Deafness

Director: Cheng Zhang and Reid Davenport

Documentary, 7 min, USA, English

Description: A look inside the family life of deaf parents, their hearing children and the music that unites them.

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Appropriate for high school students

Feeling Through

Disability Represented: Deafblindness

Director :Doug Roland

18 min -Narrative – English - US

Description: A coming of age story that follows18-year-old Tereek, a kind but guarded teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash, and his encounter with Artie, a DeafBlind man in need of help getting home. What begins as an awkward meeting between strangers becomes an intimate bond between friends, and a nightlong journey that forever changes Tereek. It's ultimately someone who can neither see nor hear Tereek who is able to tune into what he is truly struggling with, inspiring Tereek to realize his own sense of purpose.

Enrique Oliu, star of Henry O', at a Tampa Bay Rays game

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Appropriate for all ages

Henry O’

Disability Represented: Blindness

Director: Ziad H. Hamzeh

Documentary, 14 min, USA, English and Spanish

Description: HENRY O! tells the story of Enrique (Henry) Oliu, a man blind since birth, who has made his major league baseball dream come true. Calling upon his love for sports and an encyclopedic memory for facts and figures, Henry hears the crack of the bat and knows if it's a single, double, or home run; he listens for the ball singing into the catcher's mitt and knows if it's a curve ball, fastball, or changeup. Henry is the analyst for the strongest Hispanic station in Florida's Tampa Bay Market.

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