FOR MEMBERS ONLY
A weekly column written especially for Denver Film Society Members. It includes special programs for DFS Members only, along with information about programs that are especially of interest to film-loving members and others who are cinema lovers! If you are NOT already a member, please JOIN NOW so you can enjoy many of the "Members Only" benefits!
What I try to highlight in this DFS Members column, are all those
events that DFS Members are ESPECIALLY hot for....I like to call those
events- FILM PLUS MORE.....that means, films plus guest filmmakers,
panels and/or receptions, some for DFS Members ONLY!
If you are already a DFS Member - check in here whenever you are looking for something wonderful to do!
Thanks!
Posted Wednesday, July
28, 2010 - 6pm
DFS
Members:
!!!IMPORTANT
PARKING & CONSTRUCTION
Info for
Starz FilmCenter!!!!
Effective immediately DFS Members and Starz FilmCenter customers are to start parking in the parking garage located
directly across from the ramp that leads to the SFC entrance.
After August
9th, Starz FilmCenter validations WILL NOT be accepted in the Tivoli surface lot. After
10/23, the Tivoli surface lot will no longer be a parking
lot.
Beginning in the next few weeks, the campus will be replacing the ramp that leads to SFC. This
project will take approximately ten days. The only way to get to the SFC
entrance will be through the Tivoli entrance.
On an entirely different note.......I still think this is a pretty cool story, so I'm leaving it in this blog for one more week:
Two DFS Members, Michael Mitchel and Dr. Sheila Rucki had been Dual DFS Members for
years....they also rent out a theater each year for the RIFF (Rucki
International Film Festival), a private festival where they screen one of their
favorite films and they invite friends. Well,
last year Michael came to me to get an explanation of why one of the DFS
Members they met at the SDFF had a VIP badge. I explained that it was because that person was an Executive Producer Level
member. I then explained to Michael and
Sheila about ALL the great benefits you get as a $1,000 member:
You get a VIP badge (free admission ALL year round for 2, to any regular
priced Starz FilmCenter screening) AND 2 tickets to ANY and ALL of the films at
the Starz Denver Film Festival (as long as you don't pull 2 more at the same
time in a different theater) AND 2 tickets to ALL of the Red Carpet films
(Opening, Closing, Big Night)! If you do
the math AND if you are someone who spends A LOT at the festival and
year-round, this membership can really make sense! I alway explain that this membership is the BEST cultural
deal in ALL of Denver!
So, guess what? Michael and Sheila became Executive Producer Members and
have been loving it ever since. Michael
loves it so much that he has offered to help me "spread the word" about this
great membership.
AND, add to that, we have officially started the:
I
(heart) Film campaign again!
That means any
NEW, UPGRADED or DONATION monies will be matched by a generous grant from the Gay and
Lesbian Fund for Colorado.
So if this story sounds like something YOU want to know more about, - you can UPGRADE and double the benefit to the DFS and get great new benefits for yourself! Please call or write me directly and let's talk (as Joan Rivers would say!)
Eileen O'Brien
Director of Membership & Volunteers
member@denverfilm.org
(303) 595-3456 Ext. 222
DFS Members
Studio Preview Screening
tOMORROW NIGHT, Thursday, July 29th
Thursday, July 29
Time: 7:30PM
Venue: Mayan Landmark Theater
Film: COUNTDOWN TO ZERO
Price: FREE for DFS Members, first-come, first-seated, show your DFS Membership for admission. Arrive early to assure seating. No holding seats, please do not sit in reserved seating.
Synopsis: COUNTDOWN TO ZERO traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of
global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others
racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be
shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident.
Written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker (The Devil’s Playground, Blindsight), the film features an array of
important international statesmen, including President Jimmy Carter, Mikhail
Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. It makes a compelling case for
worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more topical than ever with the Obama
administration working to revive this goal today. The film was produced by
Academy Award® winner and recent nominee Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds, An Inconvenient Truth) and developed,
financed and executive produced by Participant Media, together with World
Security Institute. Participant collaborated with Magnolia on last year’s
Food, Inc., recently nominated
for an Academy Award®, and the upcoming CASINO JACK and the United States of
Money. Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Bruce Blair and Matt Brown are
the film’s executive producers.
This Weekend
Friday - Sunday, 7/30-7/31/10
THE WATCHING HOUR
Time: 10pm
Date: Friday, 7/30/10 and Saturday, 7/31/10
Venue: Starz FilmCenter
Film: SERIES 7
Price: Regular screening price
Plus More: Keith Garcia, our programming magician here at DFS, is your host, he IS the HOST with the MOST when it comes to this program! You can't have a more "genre" experience in all of Denver than coming to a Watching Hour with Keith!
Click here for more details: SERIES 7
cOMING IN aUGUST!
colorado Cinema Salon
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Time: 7:00PM
Venue: Starz FilmCenter
Ticket price: Regular screening price ($7 DFS Members, $9.75 General Public)
Click here for Details about this NEW program:
The Denver Film Society will launch an exciting new monthly program in August geared to the Colorado filmmaking community in the broadest send(directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, actors, technicians, historians, teachers) but also designed to appeal to Denver Film Society Members and general audiences. The monthly Salon will be hosted and curated by Robert Denerstein, former long-time critic at the Rocky Mountain News and, for the past three years, moderator for all panels and seminars in the Starz Denver Film Festival.
The first Salon, scheduled for Thursday, August 12, will address violence in films. Blood on Our Hands: Morality and Violence in the Movies will feature a wide-ranging dialogue between veteran Denver filmmaker and actor donnie I. betts and The Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, the outspoken Archbishop of the Denver Catholic Diocese. The lively discussion will be highlighted by clips from several movies.
Price: regular Starz FilmCenter screening prices
Stay tuned here, for information about Colorado Cinema Salon programming for September and October!
lAST CHANCE TO GET YOUR TICKETS TO FILM ON THE ROCKS!
Did you know.....
that every DFS Membership gets
TWO (2) free tickets to
FILM ON THE ROCKS
(DUAL Membership gets 2, SINGLE Membership gets 2, STUDENT Membership get
2, COLORADO FILMMAKER gets 2...you get
the idea!)
DFS Members please note:
NEW this year....you MUST pick up your Film On The Rocks tickets
(you decide what date/film tickets you want)
at the Starz FilmCenter Box Office
at least
24 hours before
the night of the
screening!
The Starz FilmCenter Box office will be open:
Mondays! from 12noon-7p
especially for DFS Members to come and pick up their Film On The Rocks tickets.
And, regular theater hours:
Tuesday through Friday, 4p-9p
and Saturday & Sunday 3p-9p
NO DFS Member tickets will be issued at the
Red Rocks Box Office on the night of the film.
These screenings WILL sell out, so you need to get your tickets IN ADVANCE!
Here is the Schedule for
Film On the Rocks at Red Rocks 2010:
Tuesday, August 3rd
THE LOST
BOYS
Wednesday, August 11th
ACROSS
THE UNIVERSE
Eileen O'Brien
Director of Membership & Volunteers
member@denverfilm.org