CINEVEGAS FILM FESTIVAL

2008 FESTIVAL FUN

She Unfolds By Day - Rolf Belgum’s Grand Jury Prize winner.
Beautiful Losers - Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard’s inspiring documentary that won the Pioneer Documentaries jury prize.
Explicit Ills - Mark Webber’s directorial debut.
Schoof! - Sci-fi comedy from the one-man crew Giuseppe Andrews.
Déficit - Gael García Bernal’s directorial debut.
Go Go Tales - Abel Ferrara’s movie about a strip bar that boasts a top notch cast of Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Modine, Asia Argento, Pras and Burt Young.
Dark Streets - A musical film noir, directed by Rachel Samuels and starring Gabriel Mann, Bijou Phillips, Izabella Miko and Elias Koteas.
Your Name Here - Matthew Wilder’s weird film starring Bill Pullman, Taryn Manning, Traci Lords and M. Emmet Walsh.
The Rocker - The film starring Rainn Wilson that opened the 10th annual CineVegas Film Festival.
Winners - List of all the 2008 award winners.
Blog entries - CineVegas blog entries at WhatUpThug.com

2007 FESTIVAL FUN

LOOK - Adam Rifkin’s Grand Jury prize winner.
Frownland - Ronald Bronstein’s odd 16mm movie.
Garbanzo Gas - Hilarious movie from underground filmmaker Giuseppe Andrews.
Giuseppe Andrews - Q&A
Anna Biller- Q&A
Ronald Bronstein - Q&A
Winners - List of all the 2007 award winners.

2006 FESTIVAL FUN

Day 1 - Opening night red carpet.
Day 2 - Japanese inspired psychological thriller “Danika” and Hannah Marks.
Day 3 - Outlaw panel - Bobcat Goldthwait and Gregg Araki.
Day 4 - Izabella Miko and Dagney Kerr.
Day 5 - Celebration of diversity with “G.I. Jesus” and “Thanks to Gravity.”
Day 6 - Slyvester Stallone gets a star at The Palms..
Day 7 - More on “G.I. Jesus.”
Finale - Closing thoughts on 2006 festival.
Winners - List of all the 2006 award winners.
Scrap Book - Random stuff.
G.I. Jesus - Grand Jury winner written and directed by Carl Colpaert.
Danika - Ariel Vromen’s excellent film starring Marisa Tomei, Craig Bierko and Regina Hall.
Thanks to Gravity - Starring Gina Philips, Sean Astin and Adam Rodriguez, and written and directed by Jessica Kavana.

ABOUT CINEVEGAS

     CineVegas has established itself as one of the hottest and fastest growing film festivals in the world, being mentioned in a TIME Magazine cover story as well as listed as one of the top 5 small fests to visit by Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper.

     CineVegas highlights up and coming filmmakers, as well as masters of the craft, and has attracted the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Josh Hartnett, Benicio del Toro, Quentin Tarantino, Tony Curtis, and Michael Caine in years past. CineVegas has also hosted the world premieres of such films as “George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead,” “Spun,” and “Poolhall Junkies,” as well as advance screenings of high profile and independent films, shorts and documentaries such as “Hustle & Flow,” “Whale Rider,” “Gods and Monsters,” “Cider House Rules,”“Napoleon Dynamite” and many, many more.