ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus Presents: Name Me Lawand

Name: ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus Presents: Name Me Lawand
Start: 2024-10-20T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-20T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Columbus Museum of Art

Schedule

Sun Oct 20 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Columbus Museum of Art | Columbus, OH

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus film festival is showing another film this fall at the Columbus Museum of Art. We are so excited to be showcasing the film, "Name me Lawand" directed by Edward Lovelace on October 20th! ReelAbilities is a groundbreaking film festival that promotes awareness and appreciation of lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities, all through the easily accessible art form of film.
Schedule of Events
2:00 PM - Film Name me Lawand
3:30- 4:00 PM- ASL lead tour of Columbus Museum of art special exhibitions Ming Smith: Transcendence and Fragments of Epic Memory. Registration for this portion of the event is required! Tickets can be found on this event!
Film Description: Lawand is a young Kurdish boy, deaf since birth. After a treacherous journey and a year in a Dunkirk refugee camp, the help of a deaf volunteer brings his family to Derby, where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older, the film follows his dramatic progress learning British Sign Language, revealing a bright, charismatic and inquisitive boy who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself.
Event details: The film will be screened in the auditorium which is right across from atrium. After the film, everyone who is joining us on the ASL lead tour will meet us at the auditorium which is right across from the atrium at 3:30.
Fee: FREE
Access: Open Captions and ASL
Parking: Free street parking is available. The Museum also has an on-site lot with available parking for $7.
Questions?
Contact Simone Robinson at [email protected] or call 380.799.(MAKE)
ID
Here is a still image ad created by Art Possible Ohio featuring the film Name me Lawand the image is of a little boy riding his father's back the boy is holding up
small sticks of fireworks and is looking towards the camera the bottom of the ad has the Columbus Museum of Art logo as well as the ReelAbilities logo the bottom right corner says Feature film: Name Me Lawand October 20th, 2:00 PM Columbus Museum of Art