A film festival can accomplish many things. It can pack hotel rooms with filmmakers from across the country and line cinephiles out the doors of theaters for days on end, all the while entertaining and informing audiences.
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To coincide with the Starz Denver Film Festival, we paired some of the top acts in the Love Hope Strength Music Lounge (a showcase of Denver music) with the movies their music might best fit into.
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We're on set for the filming of the sponsors' ad. Before the lights, before the camera, even before actors assemble and the scene number is chalked up and read off, there is plenty of action on a film set.
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Putting in five hours of volunteering at the 32nd Annual Starz Denver Film Festival will get you a free movie pass, and maybe allow you to rub elbows with industry bigwigs.
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A recap of the Women + Film Panel discussion with Karina Longworth, AnnaSophia Robb, Rachel Leigh Cook, Eva Lopez Sanchez, Emily Kuntsler, and Eileen O'Brien.
A look at the red carpet event at the Starz Denver Film Festival opening night premiere of Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
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The mysterious “mystery screening” on the last night of the Starz Denver film Festival turned out to be a real treat for the audience because the film won’t come out until next fall, in time for awards season in 2011.
Orgasm Inc. is a terrifying look into the sex industry. And not the sex industry you might think. The documentary doesn't deal in porn or prostitution, but in pharmaceuticals.
Instead of the glossy visions of young girl angst films like Juno delight in portraying, British writer-director Andrea Arnold brings an unpolished, more realistic vision of female adolescence to her second full-length film, Fish Tank. There are no easy, clear morals or cutesy quirks to be found. And while this might exclude the film from mass distribution, it includes it in the arena of invigorating honesty.
A break from the hour-plus features at the film festival, It Takes Two to Tangle is a collection of beautifully composed short films that lets the audience peek into the lives of peculiar pairs of people.
Terezka is a child confused by her parents distancing relationship. Her only comfort comes from nightly readings of "Little Red Riding Hood". Extremely intelligent, Terezka blends her child innocence with her favorite story and wild imagination, all the while trying to make sense of her life.
Taking place in New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina, Nicolas Cage plays a crooked cop, leading a life of betrayal and manipulation. The film also features fellow cop played by Val Kilmer, and Cage's drug addicted, prostitute girlfriend, played by Eva Mendez.
On the surface, it may seem as if the story of Fred Martinez, a transgendered teenager brutally murdered in Cortez, Colo., has been told countless times. But in reality, director Lydia Nibley’s Two Spirits is the kind of story that rarely gets told.
Showcasing the effect of the modern day cult classic Troll 2, Best Worst Movie brings hilarity to what is considered by some as the greatest terrible film of all time.
Victress Hitchcock puts a new spin on femme-power films with Blessings, a documentary following a group of American women to Nangchen, a nomadic region in Tibet, in search of Tsokyni Nangchen nuns.
Jessica Oreck’s Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo sounds like a sci-fi flick involving a mutant beetle. It’s actually a documentary about how insects have been a long-standing part of Japanese culture, the beetle in particular.
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