Wednesday, June 23 OPENING NIGHTat FoothillsArtCenter 6-7 pm Opening
Reception:Cocktails and light hors'dourves will be served 7-9 pm Opening Night
Selection:An Evening of Academy Award
Nominated Shorts China's
Unnatural Disaster: Tears of SichuanProvince Directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant Directed by Steve Bognar and Julia Reichart
Music by Prudence* Directed by Roger Ross Williams
The opening night shorts package runs approximately 90
minutes. Seats are limited this evening and must be purchased in
advance. $10 ticket price includes
admission to the reception and the film.Film starts promptly at 7pm.
Thursday, June 24 An
ENVIRO-ART AFTER PARTY at The Golden Hotel for ticketholders, filmmakers and
filmgoers to Thursday night screenings.The lounge party is open from 8pm until late.
"GREEN" MOUNTAIN
NIGHT at the Foss Auditorium 5:30 pm Screening:Grown
in Detroit (60
mins) Directed by: Mascha and Manfred Poppenk Just imagine...Teen moms becoming urban farmers. Utopia?
Not in Detroit. The home town of mass production is turning green again.
6-7 pm Event:Private
viewing of the BradfordWashburnAmericanMountaineeringMuseum. Arrive anytime between 6-7pm. Free admission and free tours of the BradfordWashburnAmericanMountaineeringMuseum. Part of the AmericanMountaineeringCenter,
which houses DocuWest's Foss Auditorium, the museum will host DocuWest visitors
for a private viewing of the museum's latest exhibits.Ticketholders for DocuWest's Thursday night
screenings receive free admission and tours to the museum.
7 pm Screening:A Life Ascending (57 mins):DocuWest's
2010 Outdoor Feature Film Directed
by: Stephen Grynberg A world-class ski mountaineering guide and his young family
navigate the aftermath of a massive avalanche in which 7 people died.
8:15 pm Screening:Houston,
We Have a Problem (85 mins) Directed by: Nicole Torre Today, in the midst of Global Warming and Peak Oil, the
world's energy demand is skyrocketing.Aggressive strategies for securing Crude now go to the highest bidder or
the biggest bully. Hear the confessions of oilmen, who work in the trenches
every day, scrambling to feed America's
ferocious appetite.
ART IN FILM NIGHT at Foothills Art Center Celebrate different forms of art
through the documentary lens. After party at The Golden Hotel's lounge.
5:00 pm Screening: Scribble
08& Greenlit Scribble 08 (32 mins) Directed
by: Mark Murphy A
documentary film inspired by the art movement of Southern
California.
Greenlit
(50 mins) Directed
by: Miranda Bailey The documentary explores the damaging effects of the film
business on the environment. Greenlit follows Miranda, an indie producer, to
the realization that making movies has a tendency to be extremely
wasteful.Both entertaining and
humorous, this documentary is filled with compelling and important facts about
filmmaking and sustainability.
7:00 pm Screening: Automorphosis
(77mins) Directed
by:Harrod Blank What if you could morph your car into a mobile work of art,
and drive it down the road for all to see?What would it look like?What
would the world think of you?How would
you be changed? AUTOMORPHOSIS looks into the minds and hearts of a delightful
collection of eccentrics, visionaries, and just plain folks who have
transformed their autos into artworks.
8:15 pm Screening: DNC
Mediamockracy (60 mins) **Colorado
Creates Feature Film---Colorado Director Mitch Dickman** The camera rolls as Listen Productions sets out to create an
original play that will explore how the relationship between media and politics
impacts the American people and our democracy. Using footage shot during the
2008 Democratic National Convention Producer/Director Mitch Dickman and fellow
collaborators Karen Slack, William Hahn and GerRee Hinshaw try to write and
produce and original play in 4 weeks.
Friday, June
25 Women + Film Event 7 pm Screening the environmental film: Houston, We Have a Problem Event includes: screening of the film followed by a Q&A
with director Nicole Torre in person and a reception at Grappa Mediterranean
Bistro & Cafe, 1027 Washington
Avenue after the film. Click here to learn more about Women+Film.
Saturday, June 26 2010
DOCUWEST AWARDS RECEPTION & FEATURE FILM 7:15 pm Golden Champagne Awards Presentation
in the Foss Auditorium 7:30 pmFEATURE FILM PRESENTATION 9:00 pm FILMMAKERS AFTERPARTY begins at Table Mountain Inn.Meet the Filmmakers of DocuWest 2010!
DOCUWESTERS' EVENT at Foothills Art Center Event Sponsored by G.R.E.A.T.! Golden Resource for Education, Arts, and Theater 5-6:30 pm Screening: A Life Ascending & An Academy Award Nominated Short A Life Ascending (57 mins) Director: Stephen Grynberg **Colorado
Creates and Outdoor Featured Film** A Life Ascending chronicles the life of acclaimed ski
mountaineer and mountain guide Ruedi Beglinger. Living with his wife and two
young daughters on a remote glacier in the Selkirk Mountains of British
Columbia, Beglinger has built a reputation as one of the top mountaineering
guides in the world.
Academy Award Nominated Short to follow
6:30-7:30 pm Event: Cocktail
Reception with Filmmakers A
support program for DocuWest Film Festival
that helps make a greater festival while giving you greater access!
Enjoy
cocktails and light hors'dourves while mingling with the filmmakers.
COLORADO CREATES!---DocuWest Celebrates Colorado
Filmmakers DocuWest
Screens 3 Colorado Filmmakers' films at the Miners' Alley Playhouse and FoothillsArtCenter,
celebrating the work of Colorado Film!
1-3 pm Screening: Sole Journey
& Mortal Lessons at the Miners' Alley Playhouse, with Filmmaker Panel after
the films.
Sole
Journey (59 mins) **Colorado
Creates Feature Film---Colorado Director Sheila Schroeder and KateBurns** Sole
Journey tells the stories of brave families and individuals from across the United States who have joined the Soulforce
movement to confront the dangerous political policymaking and anti-LGBT
rhetoric of Dr. James Dobson and Focus on the Family, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mortal
Lessons (57 mins) **Colorado
Creates Feature Film---Colorado Director David Liban** Death is inevitable, yet we spend most of our lives trying
to ignore that fact. We use euphemisms like "passing on," as if to talk about
death would make it happen sooner. On the surface this film is about death and
dying, yet it's really about living, and about learning to face our own
mortality.
Sunday,
June 27 Missed theFEATURE FILM
PRESENTATION on Saturday? Catch the second screening at Foothills Art Center
2 pm Screening: Featured Film Thieves by Law at Foothills Art Center Director: Alexander Gentelev The Russian Mafia: what can't they do? After this insider's
look into the world of, ahem, "hypothetical" crimes, it's pretty
clear that the answer is nyet. Following the stories of three
mafiosi-cum-businessmen, Thieves By Law paints a fascinating tableau of men
that would make Tony Soprano cringe. Most intriguing, though, are their
personal histories interwoven with the evolution of the Russian Mafia itself.
Beginning in Stalin's gulags and slowly transforming into an international
organization, the mafia and Code of Thieves have always directly correlated to
the political struggles of the Soviet Union---reflecting
society back to the government like a funhouse mirror.