See GBC's Chris Hoeh's "Wheels of Justice" film Sun. 3/29 at 7pm (ONLINE!)

We would like to invite you to a very special online film screening of the 16 minute documentary “Wheels of Justice” that focuses on GBC Advocacy Representative Chris Hoeh and his experience living with a spinal cord injury and his fight to get the right wheelchair. The film highlights the importance of robust healthcare coverage and legal advocacy. The film was shown during the chapter’s January Saturday Spinal Source. A live-streamed discussion will follow the films on this YouTube channel with Chris, Director Alice Markowitz, and Senior Attorney for the Disability Law Center, Svetlana Uimenkova.

Date: Sunday, March 29 Time: 7pm Program of several short films (WoJ at aprox. 8 PM)

How: Register here for tickets. The event is free (donations appreciated) This is part of the ReelAbilities Film Festival with films each night from March 22-April 2.

Here's a description excerpted from the 3/20 WBUR ARTery "In “Wheels Of Justice” (also in the International Shorts Block, Sunday, March 29 at 7 p.m.), Jamaica Plain activist, teacher and all-around remarkable guy Chris Hoeh says, “Before my injury, I always thought of people in wheelchairs as just people who aren’t able to walk. I had no idea what it takes to be in a wheelchair.” He finds out after a skiing accident leaves him using one. When he and his health care team deem a stand-up wheelchair a “medical necessity,” MassHealth disagrees. Alice Markowitz’s short documentary follows Hoeh as he learns that not only will his new situation require top-notch medical care and technology but also legal advocacy." “Anybody can fall sick at any point or have an accident at any point,” says Markowitz, about what dawned on her when making the film. The Arlington filmmaker has decades of experience producing for PBS programs like NOVA and Scientific American Frontiers, including some about fissures in American health care. “The idea that it’s ‘us’ and ‘them’ is just a false belief.” Chris Hoeh is the Advocacy Representative of the Greater Boston Chapter of United Spinal. He welcomes your feedback, questions, and interest in the disability rights movement.

A still from the documentary "Wheels of Justice." (Courtesy ReelAbilities Film Festival)