The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival is proud to partner with
Jewish Community Center’s Opening the Doors to present

“A Taste Of ReelAbilities”

“A Taste of ReelAbilities” is a film festival of award-winning films dedicated to
promoting awareness, appreciation and celebration of the lives, stories and artistic
expressions of people with different disabilities, with post screening discussions.

NO ORDINARY HERO:
THE SUPERDEAFY MOVIE

JFS Wins
Grant

Jewish Family Service was
selected to receive a grant
from the Jewish Federations of
North America (JFNA) through
the Center for Advancing
Holocaust Survivor Care. When
combined with matching
funds, this award will enable
$210,000 in new programming
for survivors.
JFNA launched the Center
for Advancing Holocaust
Survivor Care in the fall of
2015, following an award from
the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services for up to
$12 million over five years to
advance innovations in person-
centered, trauma-informed
(PCTI) services for Holocaust
survivors in the United States.
PCTI care promotes the digni-
ty, strength and empowerment
of trauma victims by incorpo-
rating knowledge about the
role of trauma in victims’ lives
into agency programs, policies
and procedures.
Of the more than 100,000
Holocaust survivors in the
United States, nearly one-
quarter are aged 85 or older,
and one in four lives in poverty.
Many live alone and are at risk
for social isolation, depression,
and other physical and mental
health conditions stemming
from periods of starvation, dis-
ease and torture.
JFS serves more than 500
survivors through help with
indemnification and restitu-
tion claims, homecare services,
friendly visitors, translation,
emergency financial assistance
and many other services.
“This assistance will not
only enable Jewish Family
Service of Metropolitan
Detroit to continue to help our
community’s survivors in the
most effective way possible,
but it’s also expanding our
reach to our sister agencies,
Jewish Senior Life, Jewish
Family Services of Washtenaw
County and Jewish Community
Services in Flint,” said Perry
Ohren, JFS CEO. •

Featuring Academy-Award Winner
Marlee Matlin and John Maucere
Director: Troy Kotsur
Sunday, April 22 at 1:00pm

SUNDAY

APRIL

22

1:00 PM

Tony Kane, a deaf actor, plays SuperDeafy on a television
program called No Ordinary Hero, and inspires a deaf
boy, Jacob Lang, who is being bullied at school and is
misunderstood by his father, to believe in himself and
each other.

Cost: $13

Speaker: John Maucere

John Maucere portrays a super Hero in the film,
No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie” and
has been seen in ABC’s “Switched At Birth” as
Adam. He founded Deafywood, an ensemble for
deaf entertainers and was recognized by
Los Angeles for exemplary service to the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community.

AT EYE LEVEL

Directors: Joachim Dollhopf and
Evi Goldbrunner

Thursday, April 26 at 5:00 p.m.

Eleven-year-old Michi lives in an orphanage, where
he is bullied. Michi can’t believe his luck when he finds
his biological father’s address, but discovers that his
father, Tom, has dwarfism. Together they discover they
have more in common than they think and see each
other at eye level.

THURSDAY

APRIL

26

5:00 PM

Cost: $13

Speaker: Danny Woodburn

Danny Woodburn, is an actor and comedian,
best known as Mickey Abbott, Kramer’s friend,
on NBC’s Seinfeld. Danny has appeared in
30 films and 140 TV shows.

He is the recipient of the 2010 Screen Actors
Guild Harold Russell Award and 2016 Norman
Lear Lifetime Achievement Award. Danny raises
awareness of the need for inclusion and
understanding of people with disabilities.

Discussion and Dessert Reception following each film

For information on ReelAbilities contact Ellen Maiseloff at 248-432-5530 or
emaiseloff@jccdet.org. For tickets jccdet.org/filmfestival

The ReelAbilities Films will be shown at the Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival.

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