Dear friends & neighbors,

I hope you will join me this weekend, April 13-15th at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center (60 Lake Street) for the Vermont International Film Festival's upcoming Global Roots Film Festival: Disability. The festival includes ten fantastic feature films and two shorts that will change the way you perceive people with mental and physical disabilities. There will be panels and Q&A's with filmmakers.

"Featuring award-wining documentaries, romantic comedies, action thrillers, and animated films from Israel, Hungary, France, England, Spain, Australia, and the United States are featured. Sex, love, politics, murder, mayhem, and artistry abound in this smorgasbord of delightful offerings. Children with Down syndrome trek the Himalayas, activists clamor for civil and sexual rights, people on the autism spectrum navigate relationships, an amputee pop artist performs, and the Blind Boys of Alabama sing out. " -John Killacky, Flynn Center

Here is a link to our the trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q56a1o0uGc0&list=PLIl9vcTWYUVSj4r7Kn81WWBW-f4Al0Srr
Have a look a choose a few - or come to all of them! Here is a link to our program guide and schedule for the weekend: http://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/GlobalRootsDisability_trifold_20181.pdf

I would encourage you to purchase a $40 pass for the entire weekend or individual tickets are $10 and may be purchased online or at the box office: http://sevendaystickets.com/events/52588502/global-roots-film-festival-disability?ref=elink

Daily receptions will be catered by A Single Pebble and a cash bar provided by Zero Gravity Brewery. On Saturday and Sunday, Perky Planet, a budding new coffee shop which employs people with disabilities, will be offering coffee.

Please share this event with your friends and network and I hope to see you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/179527242834833/

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