“NOT HOME” at the DISLABELED Film Series, MAY 3rd @ CUNY Graduate Center

The DISLABELED Film Series is back!  After a long winter break, we are back this month with a new screening and discussion.

What: Join us for our screening of “Not Home: A documentary about kids living in nursing facilities”

With guest speaker, Director Narcel Reedus

When: Friday May 3, 2013 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.
(between 34th and 35th streets)
Psychology Conference Room RM 6304.01

Photo ID required for entry.  $5 suggested donation.

RSVP via e-mail: dislabeledfilm@gmail.com

Please let us know if you need any accommodations, when you RSVP.

• You can download a PDF version or text-only version of the flyer to print or share
• You can invite friends with our Facebook event page: “Not Home” at the DISLABELED Film Series, May 3 @ CUNY Graduate Center
• And don’t forget to RSVP!  E-mail dislabeledfilm@gmail.com to save your seat.

“Lives Worth Living” at the DISLABELED Film Series, Oct. 25th @ CUNY Graduate Center

The DISLABELED Film Series is back! After a long summer hiatus, we are back this month with a new screening and discussion.

What: Join us in partnership with the CUNY Public Science Project (PSP) for our October screening of the PBS documentary, “Lives Worth Living.”

When: Thursday October 25th 2012 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (between 34th & 35th Streets)

Segal Theater, 1st floor

Photo ID required for entry.

RSVP via e-mail: dislabeledfilm@gmail.com

ASL Interpreting and Audio Description will be provided. Please let us know if you need these or any other accommodations, when you RSVP.

More on “Liebe Perla”…

You’ll want to read this if you are joining us for “Liebe Perla” at the DISLABELED Film Series, May 16th @ CUNY Graduate Center (and we hope you are!)

LIEBE PERLA

Shahar Rozen.1999. 53 min. Video. (Israel/Germany)

During the Holocaust, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted “scientific” experiments on a Hungarian Jewish family of actors and musicians, all people of short stature. Fifty years later, Hannelore Witkofski, a woman of short stature born in post-war Germany, befriends the only surviving family member, Perla Ovitz, now living in Israel. Perla asks Hannelore if she would look for a film that Mengele made of her family in Auschwitz. As we follow the search, Liebe Perla resurrects a lost history – the history of brutality toward and murder of disabled people in Nazi Germany.

This astounding, intimate film tells us as much about the present moment as it does about that troubled past – the friendship of two women, Hannelore and Perla, and, more broadly, the social positioning of disabled people in these so-called enlightened times. Shahar Rozen, director of Liebe Perla, said in a recent interview “keeping the film’s theme in mind and out of respect for Perla and Hannelore, we were very careful not to make a ‘shocking exposé’ about ‘dwarfs.’ I believed the director should have a minor presence – in fact, he should be transparent – so that the heroes could tell their story in their own way.”

Liebe Perla has received several significant prizes at international film festivals, has been shown on leading European TV stations, including NDR Germany and ARTE France, and was featured in the “Reframing Disability” series at the 2000 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival in New York.

“Liebe Perla” at the DISLABELED Film Series, May 16th @ CUNY Graduate Center

Update: Read More on “Liebe Perla”…

The DISLABELED Film Series is back!  After an our spring break in April, we are back this month with a new screening and discussion.

• You can download a PDF version or text-only version of the flyer to print or share
• You can invite friends with our Facebook event page: “Liebe Perla” at the DISLABELED Film Series, May 16 @ CUNY Graduate Center
• And don’t forget to RSVP!  E-mail dislabeledfilm@gmail.com to save your seat.

See you there!

Watch the trailer for Yo, También!

 

The March 7th debut of the DISLABELED Film Series is almost here!

To help get yourself excited about tomorrow’s screening, check out the preview (above, or direct link) of our selected film YO, TAMBIÉN.

And if you still want to RSVP, download flyers, make a donation, or just spread the word, all the information is just a click away!

Don’t forget! March 7 @ DISLABELED…

Updated: March 6, 2012

Here is an updated version of the flyer for our March 7th inaugural screening!

• You can download a PDF version or text-only version of the flyer to print or share
• You can invite friends with our Facebook event page: DISLABELED Film Series Premiere! YO, TAMBIÉN March 7 @ CUNY Graduate Center
• You can donate to and share our IndieGoGo fundraising campaign to provide ASL interpreting at our screenings: DISLABELED Film Series – ASL Interpretation
• And don’t forget to RSVP!  E-mail dislabeledfilm@gmail.com to save your seat.

See you there!

Help us make our screenings accessible to all!

Here at the DISLABELED Film Series, we are committed to making the content of, and discussions following our film screenings accessible to everyone.  This includes holding the screenings in the most accessible space possible, and providing audio description and ASL interpreting for anyone who might need it.

In order to provide these accommodations for our March screening, and beyond, we need your help.  Please visit our new IndieGoGo fundraising campaign, and help us raise the modest amount of funds we need to provide ASL interpreting for our audiences.  And most importantly, help us spread the word!