Friday, August 09, 2024

ABLE SC, Free Film Screening

 

Reads, 'Disability and health equity, A film screening followed by talk back with filmmakers and disabled advocates. Film: fire through dry grass.' Followed by Able SC 30th anniversary, Seeded Ground, and Nickelodeon Theater logos.

Disability & Health Equity

Join us for a special screening of Fire Through Dry Grass, followed by a talkback featuring Ebony Deloach, Cason Stark, Marly Saade, all representatives from Able SC and disabled advocates, as well as one of the filmmakers. The talkback will be moderated by Justice Shorter of SeededGround.

This event is for those interested in topics of housing, violence prevention, arts, health, and issues impacting our youth, seniors, and marginalized communities.

Film: Fire Through Dry Grass

Fire Through Dry Grass uncovers in real-time the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Co-Directors Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina take viewers inside Coler, on Roosevelt Island, where Jay lives with his fellow Reality Poets, a group of mostly gun violence survivors.

Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, Jay and the other Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. They used to travel around the city sharing their art and hard-earned wisdom with youth. Now, using GoPros clamped to their wheelchairs, they document their harrowing experiences on “lock down.” Covid-positive patients are moved into their bedrooms; nurses fashion PPE out of garbage bags; refrigerated-trailer morgues hum outside residents’ windows. All the while public officials deny the suffering and dying behind Coler’s brick walls.

The Reality Poets’ rhymes flow throughout the film, underscoring their feelings that their home is now as dangerous as the streets they once ran and—as summer turns to fall turns to winter—that they’re prisoners without a release date. But instead of history repeating itself on this tiny island with a dark history of institutional neglect and abandonment, Fire Through Dry Grass shows these disabled Black and brown artists refusing to be abused, confined, erased.

Fire Through Dry Grass

On a tiny island in NYC, a group of Black and brown disabled artists fight Covid and the city to protect the lives of 500 vulnerable nursing home residents.


Learn More About the Film

Event: Monday, September 9 at 2:30 pm

Nickelodeon Theater

1607 Main Street

Columbia, SC 29201

 

This event is free to attend, however we do ask that you reserve your ticket. There is an option on the reservation to request accommodations

Able South Carolina
720 Gracern Road Suite 106 | Columbia, South Carolina 29210
803.779.5121 | advocacy@able-sc.org

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