The JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center in Denver is hosting the third annual ReelAbilities Film Festival Denver from November 17-19, 2023. The festival promotes awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with disabilities. The festival includes 14 films and film shorts showing in-person and virtually, along with supplemental programming and Q&As. Denver was the first city in Colorado to host a ReelAbilities Festival, which has now also expanded to Boulder.
Opening night is on November 17 at 6 p.m. in the Elaine Wolf Theatre at the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center. The opening film is called Long Live My Happy Head, which is an expectedly uplifting love story, about a comic book artist with a brain tumor. The film is preceded by a 10-minute short film, The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms, a live-action documentary about a man’s experience with chronic illness. Access Gallery artists will be at the event drawing caricatures for attendees. Access Gallery is an inclusive nonprofit that engages the community by opening doors to creative, educational and economic opportunities for people with disabilities to access, experience, and benefit from the arts.
Closing night will be held on November 19 at 6 p.m. with the film No Bone: Scars of Survival, a film about a stroke victim, and the short film, Brainstorms, about a veteran who sustained a traumatic brain injury during combat.
For more information and tickets, visit https://www.jccdenver.org/arts-culture/fes tivals/reelabilities-film-festival/.
