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ReelAbilities, film festival that celebrates the stories of people with disabilities, coming to Denver
An inclusive, accessible international film festival is making its debut in Denver this week.
By: Stephen McNelis
and last updated 2021-05-05 08:41:08-04
DENVER â An inclusive, accessible international film festival is making its debut in Denver this week.
The Jewish Community Center of Denver has helped bring ReelAbilities to Denver from Wednesday, May 5 to Saturday, May 8.
âReelAbilities is a film festival that celebrates the authentic stories and creative expressions of people with disabilities, both in front of and behind the camera,â said Amy Weiner Weiss, director of festivals for JCC Denverâs Mizel Arts and Culture Center.
An ensemble of actors and actresses with Denver s Phamaly Theatre Company the troupe featured in the documentary
There’s Still Hope for Dreams: A PHAMALY Story, streaming May 5–8 at the ReelAbilities: Denver Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Phamaly Theatre Company
The ReelAbilities Film Festival Makes Its Mile High City Debut This Week
The international festival, which runs May 5–8, will feature a lineup of events and award-winning films by, for, and about people with various disabilities including several with Colorado connections. Madi Skahill •
May 3, 2021
Denver is adding to its growing list of cultural attractions, and this time, the spotlight is on inclusivity.
The film looks not just at disability, but also intersecting issues of gender, race, sexuality and class, and how they play into what types of disabled characters we see and don’t see. The doc takes on how disability informs tropes like the Magical Negro, how blind women are represented as sexual objects to conquer, and how blind men are often shown fighting and driving cars two of the only ways that Hollywood knows how to demonstrate virility. And when it comes to people with disabilities having sex according to the movies, it s nearly always with a person who doesn t have a disability, and done out of pity or rage.
Denver’s Virtual JAAMM Festival Features Culinary Superstars
James Beard Award–winning culinary historian Michael Twitty and chef Einat Admony will headline the Jewish Arts, Author, Movies and Music Fest’s spring lineup.Daliah Singer •
March 15, 2021
The Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins the evening of March 27, honors and celebrates the Israelites’ freedom from slavery in Egypt. Every year, we read the
Haggadah (the text that guides the seder, the ceremonial dinners that mark the first two nights of the holiday) and are asked to remember our people’s bondage. But we’re also called to do something more: to acknowledge and support the many people around the world who remain enslaved or lack our everyday freedoms.