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.