4. The Supreme Court of Film

Richard and Adam are joined by Michael McNeely, a second year Osgoode Student and deaf-blind advocate as they discuss free time at law school. What is it? Does it even exist?

 

Michael and Richard talk about film and the TIFF. We discuss our attempts at marrying free-time with the workload of law school.  We find out what happened in 12 Angry Men, and the Supreme Court of Film renders its first judgement.
 

 

Required Readings: 

 

Watch "12 Angry Men", 1957 Film.

 

See Michael McNeely's activism regarding accessibility in film.

 

Links:

 

https://thatshelf.com/author/mmcneely/

https://thatshelf.com/2016/09/06/an-open-letter-to-tiff/

http://reelabilities.org/toronto/about/#about

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2017/05/09/reelabilities-film-fest-sometimes-heartbreaking-hopefully-eye-opening.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/michael-mcneely-reel-abilities-film-festival-1.4106600

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tiff-accessibility-hearing-sight-impaired-audiences-1.4284325

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tiff-captions-1.3750804

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tiff-closed-caption-system-fails-disappointing-film-critic-who-needs-them-1.3760941

 

  

Questions?:

 

Call 681-443-7763 and leave a voicemail. Just yell 10 numbers at Siri and you are there.

 

Transcript for this Episode Available HERE