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Theater 222, Innis College
2 Sussex Street, Toronto, M5S 1J5
7 PM – TUESDAY June 21
DMR: Impoverished Places
Director Francois Driessen
Canada
0:05:00
Impoverished Places’ is a dance born from the real life of Judy Hazlett – a woman who has had Parkinson Disease for more than 30 years. Crushed by the frustration of her physical limitations, the dance expresses her journey from despair to hope
SD: No Pity
*Nominee for the ReelHeART Young Filmmakers Spirit Award
Director Drew Goldsmith
United States of America
0:19:00
For decades, charities portrayed people with disabilities as pitiable. Although the 1980s disability-rights movement appeared to end such denigrating depictions, contemporary fundraising for autism has regressed to pity-based tactics. In answer to this 15 year-old filmmaker and disability self- advocate Drew Morton Goldsmith, vividly portrays self-advocates’ empowered response.
DMR: Dreamcoat
Director Michael Ostroff
Canada
0:30:50
In Spring of 2010, the quality of life in a Jewish organization, Tamir marked its 25th anniversary with a production of the Broadway hit “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat”. For the very first time, a professionally managed, fully integrated theatrical production was created involving people with developmental disabilities alongside people from professional and amateur theatre.
Intermission and Q & A
DMR: After the Water the Clouds
Director Carmen Rozestratan
Netherlands
0:10:00
Playful and poetic voyage of a young Catalan woman whose world becomes more and more surreal as she encounters mythical and unusual characters.
DMR: Rocket to Danger
Director Anne Peterson
United States of America
0:25:00
Doris Dulwight has four wheels, three spools of thread, two weeks until the biggest roller skate party of the year, and one mission: win back her skate partner.