JOYBUBBLES Free Screening

In the 1950s, a boy discovers he can control the global telephone system simply by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and hungry for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and modern technology in the 20th century.

Told through vivid archival footage and Joybubbles’ own voice recordings, the film celebrates a visionary who redefined connection and challenged assumptions about disability, identity, and imagination. Joybubbles pulses with the curiosity and wonder he brought to the world, brought to life through director Rachael J. Morrison’s inventive, tactile storytelling.

The Mississippi Film Society is pleased to invite you to a special free preview screening of Joybubbles on Tuesday night, April 28, at 7 pm at the Capri Theatre. Please note that tickets are limited to four per order and are first-come, first-served.

The Joybubbles team is committed to providing captions for deaf and hard of fearing audiences and audio description for blind and low vision audiences, at all of their screenings. While this is usually done with an audio description headset or a captioning device, our screening will utilize open audio description, which is the first time we've done this with a Film Society screening. Open audio description is how people who are blind or have low vision access movies. You’ll hear an audio description narrator, which fits perfectly into the sound mix to describe the on screen action. This is the way Joybubbles would have ideally experienced a movie. If you’ve never heard audio description before, it may take a few minutes for you to adjust, but you'll find yourself acclimating quickly.

The sad fact is that audio descriptions are not always made available, so we are excited to provide this mode of accessibility for a wider audience. It’s our hope that, even if you don’t need it yourself, you’ll really enjoy this new way of experiencing a film.

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