The New York Premiere of "A Whole Lott
More"
Part of the ReelAbilities:
NY Disabilities Film Festival
at the JCC
in Manhattan located
at 334 Amsterdam Ave at West 76th street.
March 10, 2014
Award-winning documentary examines the struggles of over
8 million Americans with disabilities to join the work
force in America.
Tamsen Fadal, Emmy Award Winning Anchor,
PIX 11 News, moderated
Q & A following the premiere screening
The
Premiere screening was introduced by Emmy-nominee Victor
Buhler, the
director of A
Whole Lott More,
and by Wanda
Huber,
who is featured prominently in the film.
Following
the screening, Tamsen
Fadal Emmy-winning
anchor, PIX 11 News, moderated a Q&A with Executive
Producer Loreen
Arbus, President
& CEO of The
Loreen Arbus Foundation,
Inc., Jacqueline
Conley Director,
Program Services, United
Cerebral Palsy of New York City and John
Sasso,
Assistant Director, IT Services, Northeast AccessAbilities
Leader, Ernst
& Young, LLP.
A
Whole Lott More has
already won the Audience
Awards at
both the Toronto
HotDocs Festival and
the Indie
Memphis Film Festival,
and Best
Documentary at
the
Cincinnati Film
Festival.
Indiewire has
said that A
Whole Lott More is
"Surprising, compelling... the most complex examination of
the financial crisis and contemporary capitalism this year."
About A
Whole Lott More:
A Whole
Lott More began
when director Victor
Buhler, motivated
by a car accident that left him in a wheelchair, decided to
tell the powerful story of an Ohio company that hired
primarily workers with disabilities, yet had been able to
compete for decades, until the collapse of the auto industry
gave the company a year to reinvent itself and find new
contracts or close down. A
Whole Lott More examines
work and disability through new perspectives, revealing the
struggles of over 8 million people in America with
developmental disabilities to join the work force. It is a
film about the great spirit of the American worker, about
the economy, and about three unforgettable characters - who
happen to have a developmental disability - and their quest
for a job.
A
Whole Lott More will
also have one more screening at:
- Jacob
Burns Center (Pleasantville, NY) - March 13th at
7:30 p.m.
To purchase tickets to the Jacob Burns Center screening on
March 13, go to:
http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org/films/buy-tickets?date=1394683200
"A WHOLE LOTT MORE" (2013, 82 minutes, US/UK).
Directed/Produced by Victor Buhler. Produced by Mike Lerner.
Executive Producers: Loreen Arbus, Maxyne Franklin, Nick
Quested, and Christina
Willoughby.
Watch the
trailer at http://bit.ly/AWLMTrailer
What is the
largest minority in the world?
The answer
might surprise you. It's people with disabilities.
- 70%
of working age Americans with disabilities are outside
the workforce.
- 10
million Americans with disabilities, of working age and
outside the work force, contributes significantly to the
fact that taxpayers spend more than 350 billion each
year supporting this population.
- These
percentages have not changed even 1% since 1990 when the
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) was passed.
About the ReelAbilities:
NY Disabilities Film Festival
The largest
festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and
appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions
of people with different disabilities. Initiated in NY by
the JCC in Manhattan in 2007, the festival presents
award-winning films by and about people with disabilities in
multiple locations throughout each hosting city.
Post-screening discussions and other engaging programs bring
together the community to explore, discuss, embrace, and
celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.
http://www.reelabilities.org/
For additional information about A
Whole Lott More, please
visit the film's website at http://awholelottmore.com/.
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