welcome to the inaugural year

friday

06:00pm

Join us at the BloBack Gallery for

two films by Pueblo youth who completed the Youth Documentary Academy in Colorado Springs. At 7pm enjoy a performance by Spyderland and a Meet & Greet with Dennis Leoni & Daniel Zacapa sponsored by the Latino Chamber of Commerce & El Movimiento Sigue. The Bar will be tended by the artisans at Tipsy Rose. Food is available from Café Murillo, Papa Mario’s Grilled Cheese, & Pepper & Co Pizza trucks. On display in the gallery is the final weekend of the Absolution at the Blo Back art gallery show.

Sonny G.

Doors open at 9:30am and social bingeing of hours of short films will begin at 10am sharp. Films will play nonstop in two theaters with a break for lunch and an afternoon intermission. Our exhibition hall will be filled with vendors for all your snack desires from Walter’s Baked Goods, Sweethearts Kettle Corn and more. Food trucks are out front. The Sangre De Cristo Jackson Hall bar will open at 2pm.

Dinner is from 5pm-7pm --- please sample local fare like Bistoro, The Shamrock, The GoldDust, or Fuel & Iron Food Hall all within walking distance and return by 7pm in full glam ready for Red Carpet photography and the first ever Steely Award Show with a participatory preshow by Underground Improv and music by Jeremy Kitchen and Out Of The Box Entertainment. All hosted by our magnificent emcee, Sonny G., president of SAG-AFTRA Colorado.

sunday

10:00am - 04:00pm

Doors open again at 9:30am with a screening of the Winner’s Circle in the grand theater and filmmaker education in the Jackson theater with Professor Sharzad Dadgar on Storytelling and Pitching your film. This is followed by several more short films. After the lunchbreak we will have a screening of EP Dennis Leoni’s 90-minute pilot from Ressurection Blvd. followed by a talkback with Dennis Leoni and actor Daniel Zacapa. Additional films will be screened along with a workshop in the Jackson by The Collaborative Curators: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Predators of Digital Distribution. All events sponsored by T-Fiber who made this festival possible through both their financial support and their new fiber internet infrastructure here in Pueblo, CO.

4.26 friday 6pm

131 Spring St, Pueblo, CO 81003

youth documentary academy

06:00pm

Founded in 2014, the Youth Documentary Academy (YDA) trains young people how to locate stories from their lived experiences and direct their own documentary films. In a two-month summer intensive, students learn all aspects of documentary filmmaking from professional filmmakers, faculty and guest artists. At the end of the program, students complete a film, and learn how to distribute it to film festivals, community organizations and television outlets. Enjoy Kik-Me by KARIZMA Rivera and You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet by Jonah Parker - both students from Pueblo, CO.

spyderland

07:00pm

Spyderland is an indie-electronic duo with musical concepts for those who still believe in a passionate free world. Our community spreads outside the art world and bleeds into a continuing interest in the truth of our place in history, including our role in shaping our generation's legacy.

Executive Producer Dennis E. Leoni is best known Resurrection Blvd., McKenna (1994) and Covington Cross (1992) Nominated, ALMA Award for Outstanding Script for a Television Drama or Comedy for Resurrection Blvd. (2000) For episode "Compadres".

Daniel Zacapa has varied and diverse film roles sharing the screen with such actors as Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell and Mel Gibson, to name a few. His TV credits include starring for three seasons on the highly acclaimed Showtime series, 'Resurrection Blvd.’ He received an ALMA Award in 1998 for his work in 'Foto Novelas'. Daniel has received numerous awards from the State of CA and the City of LA recognizing him as a pillar of the Latino community.

Dennis Leoni, EP

Gold Dust VIP Afterglow

09:00pm

217 S Union Ave, Pueblo, CO 81003

Join us for an afterglow at the Gold Dust Saloon in our historic downtown Pueblo. Free Chips and Salsa sponsored by the Latino Chamber of Commerce and

The Gold Dust!

Daniel Zacapa, Actor

4.27 saturday 10Am

GRAND THEATER

JACKSON THEATER

10:00 REEL ROCK: Climbing Never Die

10:40 Love don’t bully

10:50 Cremains Unknown

11:00 LA TIMES

11:30 MORA IS BURNING

LUNCHBREAK---------------------

12:45 Traces of Rocco

1:05 Access Denied

1:20 Symphonic Sketches

1:30 The Last Goodbye

1:40 Emma's Recovery:

Journey to Congress

1:45 Forgive Me, Anya

2:00 *Fierro*

INTERMISSION--------------

2:45 House Call

3:00 Knockout

3:30 Slopperville, U.S.A.

4:05 MIRASOL:

Looking at the Sun

4:55 Tattooer

Tillie 10:00

OFF TRAIL: A Summer Away Tale 10:15

LIFELESS: A Musical Zomedy 10:25

SASHA 10:40

Dear, When I Met You 11:05

Hitchhiking To Mars 11:10

Pluto The DestRoyer 11:25

Babushkas 11:30

You Gonna Pay For That? 11:40

Alice 11:45

SAR: Search & Rescue 11:50

LUNCHBREAK---------------------

Here In There 1:00

Meet Los Parents 1:15

Light Under a bridge 1:20

DITULLIO’S 1:25

Green In Sight 1:40

Lola of the Light 2:00

Project Saudade 2:05

The Lift 2:10

Unexpected Suprise 2:25

Cabin 2:30

Horsegirl 2:34

I Am Who I Have Always Been 2:35

I'm Getting Too Much 2:40

AttENTION From .........

The Outside .........

dreampop spider 2:50

INTERMISSION-------------------

a story that doesn't 3:20

have to do with mE .....

Statistical 3:30

Probabilities .........

The Last Claim 3:50

*Hiatus* 4:00

All Choked Up 4:25

Hemorrhage 4:30

Soup Mix 4:35

Games People Play 4:38

*need* 4:40

DINNER BREAK-------------------

*Viewer Discretion is Advised*

4.28 sunday 10Am

GRAND THEATER

JACKSON THEATER

WORKSHOP 10:00

Storytelling

& Pitching

Stackers 11:05

Nest 11:25

Iridium springs 11:45

LUNCHBREAK-------------------

What Remains 1:30

The Dabber 2:05

Ronin 2:10

tapeface 2:20

le tour 2:25

sheol 2:30

love bites 2:40

intermission---------------

WORKSHOP 3:00

Digital distribution

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