Eligibility for submission:
Films must be related to the topic of disability, such as: autism, chronic illness, hearing loss and deafness, vision loss and blindness, intellectual disability, learning, disability, memory loss, mental health, physical disability, speech, and language disorders, PTSD, and other disabilities, not specified above.
Films that are advertisements, commissioned by a commercial company or a promotional video for an organization (PSAs) are not eligible for submission
Submissions with captioning and audio description are encouraged so that they can be viewed by all selection committee members.
Your film can be no longer than 20 minutes, captions and titles included.
Submissions must be submitted as an online streaming video via a participating submission platform (FilmFreeway), or a password-protected streaming URL. DVD submissions are not accepted.
Reel Abilities Columbus screens digital files during our festival. If you’re unable to submit digital files for exhibition, DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR FILM.
By submitting your film, you are acknowledging that:
To the best of your knowledge, all of your statements above are accurate.
You are duly authorized, on your behalf and on the behalf of any person or entity that has ownership rights in the work, to submit it to the Festival and you represent that this submission is not in violation of any law, nor violate any right of said person or entity.
You hold ReelAbilities Film Festival, its officers, as well as any of its fiscal sponsors and affiliated entities, harmless from any damage to, or loss of, any materials submitted by you, whether that damage occurs in route to or from the festival, or during the course of the Festival’s possession of said materials.
