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The latest interview with our guests – Isaac Zablocki and Lawrence Carter-Long

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Isaac Zablocki is a co-founder and CEO at ReelAbilities. He is also the Director of film programs at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. He attended film school at Columbia University and went on to work at Miramax films. Previously, he produced and directed feature films and developed film educational programs for the Board of Education.

Since 2004, Isaac has been developing film programs at the JCC including The Israel Film Center. Beyond ReelAbilities, he programs multiple film festivals annually including the acclaimed Other Israel Film Festival about Arab and minority populations in Israel.

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Lawrence Carter-Long, Director of Engagement for ReelAbilities International, is a respected authority on disability in media. He has created, curated, critiqued, and consulted on projects for the National Endowment for the Arts, Sundance, SAG-AFTRA, AFI, NPR, ITVS, the BBC, and the Peabody Award-winning Disney+ film Out of My Mind, among others.

His writing has appeared in Film Quarterly, PBS, The Atlantic, and USA Today, among other outlets. His insights are featured in the award-winning 2020 documentary Code of the Freaks and, most recently, in the PBS American Experience documentary Change, Not Charity, exploring the history and significance of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Since 2012, he has programmed and presented four showcases on the history and evolution of disability in film on Turner Classic Movies.

A sought-after public speaker, Carter-Long has lectured and curated programs on disability history and representation at the Library of Congress, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and the United Nations. From 2011 to 2017, he served as communications lead for the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency.

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