Reader: Where is Daniel Junge’s marijuana movie?

Daniel Junge just picked up an Academy Award for best short documentary for his film Saving Face.. This was Junge's second nomination...but one reader wonders what happened to a third movie:...

By Patricia CalhounFebruary 27, 2012

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Daniel Junge just picked up an Academy Award for best short documentary for his film Saving Face..

This was Junge’s second nomination…but one reader wonders what happened to a third movie:

Says ArtChangeCommerce?

This is all very exciting for our fair city and its plethora of talent….but I do want more details as to why the marajuana project is on the back burner? Sounds like that little soundbite might house a whole lotta hidden political/investment/artistic COMPROMISE. Regardless, this is obviously a compelling subject, but is it a widespread one in these times that call for so much social change?

Saving Face will be on HBO March 8, and showing at the DenverFilmCenter the day before. Find more details, as well as an interview with Junge, here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame (probably for her bar tab). She’s received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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