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But handing out books on playgrounds would not have the wide impact she wanted.įor Graschinsky, the message of “Ian” extends far beyond swings and slides. She wrote a book called The Gift about the daily life of a family that includes people with disabilities, which she handed out to children who bullied Ian, she told Variety.

When Ian’s mom, Sheila Graschinsky, saw how children who were not used to people with disabilities treated her son on the playground, she set to work to change their perceptions. In animation, the film “Ian” shows that all children, disabled or not, are made of the same stuff. The film, to him, educates the children on the playground that he wants to play, and they can play with him. Ian wants the world to know that he and all the other kids like him can play, too, if others include them. But because some kids are not used to someone like Ian-someone who has cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair, and a computer that works with his eye movements to communicate-they bully him and don’t include him when they play. The real Ian is a fourth grader who, like most fourth graders, wants to play with his friends. To find ourselves fighting a force that pushes us away from whatever we want to be and do.” “I can play and participate” There’s no need to have a disability to have experienced in our lives isolation and exclusion. “The feeling of being alienated is common to all of us.

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Ian’s story was so honest, tough and yet full of hope,” he said. “In that first meeting with, I felt the urge to do something about it. The universality behind the idea for “Ian” spoke to Gorali immediately. “We worked hard to make it as simple and honest as we could, so it could be understood by a preschool child, yet an adult could discover other layers of the story,” said Gastón Gorali, who wrote the short. The film is wordless-a deliberate decision to make “Ian” inclusive of all people. She approached MundoLoco, a top digital animation studio in Latin America, about creating “Ian,” an animated film to deliver the message of inclusion to audiences all over the world. When she realized that the need for inclusion was bigger than one playground, she wrote a book and founded Fundación ian to change thousands of minds and attitudes about people with disabilities. “Ian” started as a mother’s mission to educate her son’s bullies on the playground-one to one. “Ian” premiered for audiences around the world on YouTube and was broadcast in Latin America simultaneously on Disney Junior, Cartoon Network, Discovery Kids, Nickelodeon, PakaPaka and YouTube Kids Nov. This film sets out to show that children with disabilities can and should be included. “Ian” is a short, animated film inspired by the real-life Ian, a boy with a disability determined to get to the playground despite his playmates bullying him. The festival is adding audio description to this animated short so people who are blind or who have low vision can enjoy it independently at the April 6th showing. – “Ian” will be showing at the ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York on Tuesday, Apin Queens and Saturday, Apin Manhattan.

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