Tag: Denver Film Festival
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Denver Film Festival to feature Colorado filmmaker’s new documentary about ’90s band The Matches
The Matches is a band that burned brightly and then burned out. As a pop punk band from Oakland, Calif., in the ‘90s, the quartet seemed to check all the right boxes: charismatic musicians, hopped-up live show, a cult following and the appetite to do whatever it took to get big, including touring relentlessly for…
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Denver Film Festival to open with red carpet screening at Red Rocks
The 43rd Denver Film Festival is kicking off Thursday night with a drive-in red carpet premiere of the film “Nomadland” at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Thursday will begin 18 days of mostly virtual celebration. Nearly 200 films will be screened on Denver Film’s virtual platform as part of the festival, including short films, student films and…
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Manitou Incline record is subject of documentary premiering at Denver Film Festival
Living in Los Angeles the past 15 years, the mental picture of home for Jonathan Perkins has included a scar on the mountain. “Like a zipper,” he said of the Manitou Incline, the grueling stretch of railroad ties gaining 2,000 feet in less than a mile. The filmmaker and 1998 Coronado High School graduate had…