CineVegas is becoming one of the fastest growing film festivals in the world
Trevor Groth, director of programming for the CineVegas Film Festival, has announced that the 9th Annual CineVegas Film Festival will return to the Palms Hotel and Casino and Brenden Theatres June 8 through 16, 2007. All of which signals that CineVegas is finally on the map.
The ninth annual CineVegas begins a 10-day run at the Palms with a Wednesday night screening of “Ocean’s Thirteen”. With a red carpet spotlighting such stars as, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Ellen Barkin and Andy Garcia during a “Lights, Camera, Take Action” benefit for Not On Our Watch, which supports humanitarian efforts in Darfur.
Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins, meanwhile, is scheduled to accept the festival’s highest honor, the Marquee Award, June 15. In addition, Dennis Hopper will continue to serve as Chairman of the Creative Advisory Board in 2007. He has been dedicated to growing the national presence of the CineVegas Film Festival ever since he was honored in 2003 with CineVegas’ Marquee Award for his lifetime achievements in the film industry.
CineVegas has also honored such film greats as Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren, Laurence Fishburne, Christina Ricci, Ann-Margret, Samantha Morton, Nicolas Cage, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Holly Hunter, and David Lynch.
Another Oscar-winning Brit, Ben Kingsley, will receive CineVegas’ Vanguard Actor Award on the festival’s closing day. Kingsley also stars in the closing-night attraction, the black comedy “You Kill Me.”
Other festival honorees include British director Mike Newell (”Four Weddings and a Funeral”), who will receive the Vanguard Director Award, and Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron, recipient of the festival’s Half-Life Award.
CineVegas has established itself as one of the hottest and fastest growing film festivals in the world, with recent profiles in the New York Times and TIME Magazine and a mention as one of the top 5 Film Festivals to visit by Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper. CineVegas combines the glamour and energy of world premiere films and unique independent cinema with celebrity honorees and panel discussions of renowned filmmakers, writers and talent.
At night, CineVegas hosts nine nights of distinctive parties, from the hottest nightclubs to bowling alleys, rooftops and shark reefs.
CineVegas has hosted the world premieres of such films as “George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead,” “Spun,” “Bubba Ho-tep,” and “Artie Lange’s Beer League,” as well as advance screenings of high profile and independent films, shorts and documentaries such as “Hustle & Flow”, “Whale Rider,” “Riding Giants,” “The Aristocrats,” and “Napoleon Dynamite.”
Initially, this year’s CineVegas was scheduled to begin Thursday, not Wednesday.
But the opportunity to showcase “Ocean’s Thirteen” — and to honor producer Jerry Weintraub with a Vanguard Award — so soon after its world premiere at last month’s Cannes Film Festival proved an ideal fit for CineVegas, leading to the one-day-earlier start.
Considering “Ocean’s Thirteen’s” Las Vegas setting, “it didn’t take a genius to figure out what a perfect (decision) that was,” he adds.
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