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"Reframing Reality" -- The First International Film Festival in Israel to present films that challenge the Concept of Disability at the Jerusalem Cinematheuqe, April 27-29, 2010.
Film makers in Israel and abroad are invited to participate by sending films together with the attached form until December 15, 2009.
"Reframing Reality" is a new film festival which will shed new light on the reality of people with functioning difficulties: physical, emotional, mental and sensory. The best film and television productions, classic and contemporary, from Israel and abroad, will show people coping with their difficulties. Stress will be placed on movies focusing on the opportunities for self-fulfillment and inclusion in social and cultural life in Israel and abroad.
"Reframing Reality" will also encourage creativity and self-expression for people with functional difficulties. The festival will include panel discussions, meetings, events and exhibits presenting new approaches to empower and integrate people with special needs in all facets of life in the community.
Through the festival's panel discussions, universal values of civil rights, such as independence, freedom, equality, human dignity and freedom of speech, will be promoted. These values will help create a new reality for people with special needs, resulting in overcoming mental, social and physical obstacles which prevent them from reaching equality and full inclusion in society.
Participants who want to attend the festival are requested to register through the Jerusalem Cinematheuqe Web site: www.jer-cin.org.il Phone: 972-2-5654333
Participants who want to order a hotel in Jerusalem during the festival please apply to Aviva Meirom , Event Manager, the Jerusalem Cinematheuqe; Phone: 972-2-5654347 email: aviva@jff.org.il.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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