Short Films

Denver Filmmaker Screening at Cannes

Live Review: Cinemocracy Rocks! at Red Rocks

Cinemocracy Rocks! at Red Rocks: a review

John Vanderslice

Pixel Revolt (Barsuk)

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 1

Pixel Revolt (Barsuk)

Up and Coming

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Super-8 Summer

Tears McFarlane Mansion

Democracy in Action

Cinemocracy brings the filmmaking to the people.

Special Effects

The Manhattan film festival inspires international unity.

Toofy Time

The Manhattan film festival inspires international unity.

In Living Color

Music and film come to life in Seeing Purple.

DIY or Die

Hop aboard the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival.

Short and Sweet

Hop aboard the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival.

Five Wonders of the World

Hop aboard the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival.

Burning the Yule Log

Hop aboard the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival.

In Retrospect

A Road Map of the Soul: The Complete Kieslowski gets to the art of the matter.

Our top DVD picks for the week of July 27, 2006.

A Road Map of the Soul: The Complete Kieslowski gets to the art of the matter.

Short 'n' Sweet

A ceiling fan and a potted plant in love? Yep, it's Oscar season.

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 2, 2006.

A ceiling fan and a potted plant in love? Yep, it's Oscar season.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A ceiling fan and a potted plant in love? Yep, it's Oscar season.

Short Cuts

Group 101 Films Colorado keeps grinding out “fast films.”

Looking Glass

Chihuly dazzles at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

The Boy on the Bus

Internet TV died on the coasts, but it's alive and well at 5,280 feet.

Flick Pick

Golden Film Festival

Club Scout

Sensory Circus

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Short Story

Aspen is long on short films during its tenth annual festival.

Toy story

The creators of Chicken Run find soul in a lump of clay.

THE GOULD VARIATIONS

The creators of Chicken Run find soul in a lump of clay.

Q&A with Surveillance director Jennifer Lynch

Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond in a scene from director Jennifer Lynch's "Surveillance." It's been a long time between films for director Jennifer Lynch, whose latest offering, Surveillance, unspools today at the Chez Artiste. Her debut, 1993's Boxing Helena, about a surgeon (Julian Sands) who preve ... More >>

John Common wants you to make him a movie

​If you like music -- especially the music of John Common -- and have an interest in making film, there's a project you should know about. In the wake of his successful Common Box Project, a collaborative project that asked visual artists to create a piece of assemblage box art inspired by the ... More >>

Producer Boon Doc has beef with his MPC 1000

When producers have problems with their equipment, it's usually solved quickly by checking out the index or troubleshooting page of an instruction manual. But in the case of Denver producer Boon Doc, aka Boonie Mayfield, who is currently preparing for the Red Bull Big Tune Finals in Atlanta next m ... More >>

Animation Nation

When producers have problems with their equipment, it's usually solved quickly by checking out the index or troubleshooting page of an instruction manual. But in the case of Denver producer Boon Doc, aka Boonie Mayfield, who is currently preparing for the Red Bull Big Tune Finals in Atlanta next m ... More >>

Bug Theatre and the Emerging Filmmakers Project support local filmmakers with weekend festival

​The challenges of independent filmmaking are many, from scriptwriting to planning around multiple people's schedules to finding funding and finding distribution, the list of hurtles to jump goes on and on. In fact, it's rather amazing when a film is actually made. The Bug Theatre, a venue for ... More >>

Five great looking clips from Festivus Film Festival

​The Festivus Film Festival is getting ready to kick off tonight at the Bug Theatre, and we figured it was as good as time as any to dig into the festival schedule and try to find some stuff worth seeing. With somewhere around 60 films on display, there should be something for everyone, with l ... More >>

We Like Short Shorts

​The Festivus Film Festival is getting ready to kick off tonight at the Bug Theatre, and we figured it was as good as time as any to dig into the festival schedule and try to find some stuff worth seeing. With somewhere around 60 films on display, there should be something for everyone, with l ... More >>

The MockSides Ultimate Filmmaker Challenge is a write-around throw-down

​Like so many good ideas, David Dalton's idea for the MockSides Ultimate Filmmaker Challenge essentially sprang from thrift: Dalton had a bunch of stuff lying around and wanted to think up something to do with it. Specifically, he had scripts. Lots of scripts. Now he wants you to take one of t ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Backcountry Film Festival tonight at Neptune Mountaineering

​The Winter Wildlands Alliance brings its Backcountry Film Festival tour to Boulder's Neptune Mountaineering (633 South Broadway) tonight at 8 p.m.

Now's the time to see these Oscar-nominated short films

​The Winter Wildlands Alliance brings its Backcountry Film Festival tour to Boulder's Neptune Mountaineering (633 South Broadway) tonight at 8 p.m.

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, February 18-20, 2011

​Money is stupid. It really just gets in the way of having a good time and causes more harm than good. Thankfully, provided you're into dance parties, art shows, reading or writing, this weekend has plenty of opportunities to enjoy life on the cheap. That is, provided you're willing to spend a ... More >>

Who Likes Short Shorts?

​Money is stupid. It really just gets in the way of having a good time and causes more harm than good. Thankfully, provided you're into dance parties, art shows, reading or writing, this weekend has plenty of opportunities to enjoy life on the cheap. That is, provided you're willing to spend a ... More >>

What to see at Aspen ShortsFest? Here's something for each day

Lou Reed not being a dick? Crazy.​There are a lot of short films playing at the Aspen ShortsFest tonight and over the course of the next five days -- like, a shitload of them. And since many of them are foreign and all of them, pretty much by definition because they are short films, are somewh ... More >>

In honor of The People Vs. George Lucas, here are our five favorite Star Wars fan films

​LucasFilm has had a long and storied past dealing with fans, which is a large chunk of what the film The People vs. George Lucas, which is screening this weekend at Denver FilmCenter, deals with. When fans first started making films inspired by Star Wars, LucasFilm quickly started sending out ... More >>

Strange Brews

​LucasFilm has had a long and storied past dealing with fans, which is a large chunk of what the film The People vs. George Lucas, which is screening this weekend at Denver FilmCenter, deals with. When fans first started making films inspired by Star Wars, LucasFilm quickly started sending out ... More >>

Charly "The City Mouse" Fasano on his new book, Next Analog Broadcast

​This Friday, August 5, Charly "The City Mouse" Fasano will be celebrating the release of his new book, Next Analog Broadcast at Fast Geek Boutique (321 West 11th Ave.). The book, released by Sunny Outside, is a small, 56 page collection of Fasano's storytelling poems, which he's been performi ... More >>

Go to the movies tonight at Gorinto

​Gorinto, the weekly food-and-music joint at the Mercury Cafe, is known for bringing together eclectic bands with a $5 vegetarian meal. And tonight, they're adding film. Local filmmaker Kim Shively is curating a night filled to the brim with short films from local filmmakers, music, and as alw ... More >>

Mile High Horror Film Festival will be full of the fright stuff

Timothy Shultz, creator and director of the MHHFF.​What's the scariest thing about Colorado? The haunted mountain resorts? The cemeteries-turned-city parks? The escort-loving, meth-using pastors? All of those may soon be trumped by the second annual Mile High Horror Film Festival, which takes ... More >>

Five films not to miss at Mile High Horror Film Festival

​The Mile High Horror Festival kicks off tomorrow night at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli, with more than thirty films being shown across three days on two different screens. While you can pick up a weekend pass to check out all the festivities, not everyone is going to have the time to do ... More >>

The Spice of Life

​The Mile High Horror Festival kicks off tomorrow night at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli, with more than thirty films being shown across three days on two different screens. While you can pick up a weekend pass to check out all the festivities, not everyone is going to have the time to do ... More >>

Starz Denver Film Fest must-see pick for Nov. 8: "Close Encounters of the Animated Kind"

Video below.​Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest -- including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Here, he shares his choice for tonight: "Clos ... More >>