ReelFilm: Night 4

Event Schedule

6:30 PM: Doors Open
7:00 PM: Opening Remarks
7:15 PM: Screening of Films
8:20 PM: Talkback with Keith Wasserman- Star of Dear Ani and ReelArt 2025 Featured Artist

Join ReelAbilities Houston for night 4 of ReelFilm 2025 as we look into the lives and struggles of two incredible men with remarkable talents and stories.

‍Screenings will be followed by a talkback with this year's featured artist and star of the film "Dear Ani" Keith Wasserman

To My Father

Disability Represented: Deafness, Paralysis

Director: Sean Schiavolin

Description: In March 2022, Troy Kotsur became the first Deaf man to win the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for CODA. During his emotional acceptance speech, Troy paid tribute to his dad, his “hero”. To My Father is the story of Troy’s father’s influence on him beyond the speech that moved millions.

Dear Ani

Disability Represented: Mental Illness, Mental Health

Director: Micah Levin

Description: More than 20 years ago, an aspiring songwriter, Keith Wasserman, began a creatively obsessive correspondence with music icon Ani DiFranco, believing her reply letters were encoded in the lyrics of her songs. Dear Ani is an odyssey of music, art, and mania.

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