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/.