CineVegas 2006 Coverage - Page 2
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NEVADA FILMMAKING SHORTS
“We Know What You Did in Vegas”
19 Miles to Vegas Dir: Shane Valdez. 2005
Buffet: All You Can Eat Vegas Dir: Natasha Schull. 2005
The Business of Being Monti Rock Dir: Danny Lairamore. 2006
Nicky’s Game Dir: John-Like Montias. 2005
Synthetica Dir: Josh Meeter. 2006
The Walking Ink Dir: Thomas Barndt. 2005
Wrestling with the Past Dir: Jason Leinwand. 2006
This years shorts were very good. I am not going to talk about each short. I
chatted with filmmaker Danny Lairamore, and will post about The Business of
Being Monti Rock.
June 15, 2006
Danny Lairamore, Monti Rock
and Walker Dale
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SOMEBODIES
Dir: Hadjii
Cast: Hadjii, Kaira Whitehead, Tyler Craig, Carlos Davis, Patt Brown, David "Nick" Lewis
Synopsis: Surrounded by eccentric relatives, prankster classmates, and more-or-less rehabilitated
ex-cons, a Black college student stumbles along the path to responsible adulthood.
This was a great film and I hope everyone got to see it. They are looking for distribution. I will post a
review later.
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THE RING FINGER (L'ANNULAIRE)
Dir: Diane Bertrand
Cast: Olga Kurylenko, Marc Barbé, Stipe Erceg, Edith Scob
Synopsis: After losing the tip of her ring finger while working, a woman leaves her job and is engaged
as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind.
This was an interesting film and an odd ending. Preservation is important, not sure I want to be
preserved for life.
June 16, 2006
Taylor Hackford received his "CineVegas Vanguard Director Award" along with a conversation and
screening of THE IDOLMAKER.
Helen Mirren received her CineVegas Marquee Award
along with a conversation and screening of THE PASSION OF AYN RAND
June 17, 2006 Closing Day/Night
Christina Ricci Half-Life Award presentation, conversation and screening of THE OPPOSITE OF SEX.
Closing night film is LIES AND ALIBIS
(U.S. Premiere)
Sony
Dir: Matt Checkowski,Kurt Mattila
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Sam Elliott, Henry
Rollins, Jaime King
A man who runs an alibi service for adulterous husbands gets into a jam with a new client. In trying to
remedy the situation, he must rely on an alluring woman who gets his heart racing.
Closing night party is at Green Valley Ranch presented by VEGAS Magazine. The publication
celebrates three years.
Celebrities include: Christina Ricci - VEGAS Magazine 3rd anniversary cover model and party hostess,
Dennis Hopper, Dylan McDermott, Kristin Cavallari, Chris Kattan, Arielle Kebbel, Greg Grunberg,
Sanaa Lathan and St. Louis Rams’ Steven Jackson, among others.
"VEGAS Magazine", the first national magazine for Las Vegas, is an upscale, affluent bible to
everything Vegas and the lifestyle it embodies. VEGAS Magazine delivers the style and sophistication
that the new Las Vegas player demands. Each month, readers are enticed with smart editorial on
fashion, style, entertainment and nightlife. VEGAS Magazine is available in the Las Vegas market and
widely distributed throughout newsstands in key feeder cities including: Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los
Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Miami. Vegas Media
LLC, a partnership between Greenspun.
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