Arts & Entertainment

Meet the MasterMinds

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At Bosch's weekly screenings at places like the Mercury Cafe and Hooked on Colfax, the audience sometimes numbers three and sometimes thirty. "There are some films I really want to show, though I know no one will come out for them," he admits. "But I still show them, because I think they're important films and people need to see them." The problems these films address can't be resolved without some modicum of knowledge, he points out: "I don't know the solution to human-rights issues, but I do believe that part of that solution is to have a more informed public." And if knowledge converts even one person to work for a cause, that's a net gain. "Imagine if all people who worked for human rights for the past year decided to do something else instead," he notes. "It would be markedly worse. And then again, what if that number doubled? It would be better!"

So Bosch will continue to screen films about modern slavery, genocide, backhanded politics, environmental misdeeds and labor disputes — as long as he has his helpful sense of humor, a projector (one was stolen recently, then returned) and a place to show the movie. "My dream is to find a warehouse and turn it into a community micro-cinema," he admits, though he's never come close to finding the funding for such a venture. One reason, he says, is apathy; Denver is a sports town, after all. But another is the lack of a safe place to turn for financial support: "Most nonprofits maintain the status quo," he points out. "If they get funding, they must cater to the wants of the funders." And that's clearly not his style.

"I just want to make a difference," Bosch says resolutely. "And when I leave this world, I want to have made an impact on it in a positive way."

We've no doubt that this MasterMind will have done that — and more. — Susan Froyd

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