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ReelEducation 2021 Announced Programs and Events
Bring the message of inclusion to your school with free educational programming from ReelEducation.
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January 13, 2021
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Bring the message of inclusion to your school with free educational programming from ReelEducation.
Bring the message of inclusion to your school with free educational programming from ReelEducation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
