Author: Todd Wallinger

After 23 years of enthusiastic audiences and rave reviews, what can a film festival possibly do for an encore? What else? Do it again, only bigger. At least that’s the approach taken by the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival. Launched in the pre-HD, pre-DVD days of 1988, it’s the longest-running women’s film festival in the…

The 23rd Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival is this weekend, but longtime fans know that they can several screenings before the festival even opens. Titled Festival in the Community, this series of screenings takes place at a variety of locations throughout the city and are completely free. All they ask is that you RSVP online…

It’s not every day Colorado Springs audiences get to see a film premiere, but that’s what’s happening this Saturday as local fillmaker A. J. Ager screens his first feature film, Darkness of Day. Using local talent, Ager has made a number of edgy comedic shorts like Spoogie Norris: Fecalologist and his Demented Visions series of…

At 23 years and counting, the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival (November 5-7) is not just the oldest film festival in Colorado Springs, it’s the oldest women’s film festival in North America. And if you’ve only recently become aware of it, you’ve got a whole lot of catching up to do. Fortunately, the festival organizers…

In Silvio Soldini’s bittersweet drama, a young wife who has everything finds herself losing it all when she falls for a married waiter. Italian with English subtitles. The film will be preceded by 12 Years, an amazingly realistic animated short that shows what can happen when a real “bitch” tries to break up with her…

On Sunday afternoon as the 2nd annual Castle Rock Film Festival wound to a close, about 40 people gathered in the spacious Douglas County Event Center to learn who had won the awards at the festival. (How spacious is it? Well, consider that the building, which serves as the main exhibit hall for the Douglas…

The Castle Rock Film Festival is only in its second year, and while it’s still small, it’s putting itself on the map in a big way by being one of the few Colorado-only film festivals in the state (well, there IS one film from Arizona). This means, of course, that it’s a little low on…

LAVENDER FILM FESTIVALWhen: 6:00pm, Friday, September 24 through 9:30pm, Sunday, September 26Where: Cornerstone Screening Room, Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. CascadeAdmission: From $10 for a single film to $75 for a full-weekend pass (senior, student and low income discounts available at the door) It’s been ten years since the Pikes Peak Lavender…

Oh, what a difference a decade makes. In 2000, when the Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival was launched, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender films were few and far between. Those that did exist were often cheaply made or featured only a single gay character. Then came “Brokeback Mountain,” the 2005 Oscar-winning drama that proved straight…

Oh, what a difference a decade makes. In 2000, when the Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival was launched, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender films were few and far between. Those that did exist were often cheaply made or featured only a single gay character. Then came “Brokeback Mountain,” the 2005 Oscar-winning drama that proved straight…