Welcome to the Starz First Look Student Film Festival!
April 21-23 at the Starz FilmCenter.
Click Here for the 2005 Program Schedule
Watch our into video: Here!
Read the Article in the Denver Post: Here!

The 2005 Festival Is over and the winners have been announced! Congratulations to all the filmmakers for putting on an incredible show. Audience turnout was great and the films were very well received!

Congratulations to the following films and Filmmakers:

Best Narrative and Best Overall Short Film: West Bank Story
Director: Ari Sandel
School: USC

Best Short Film Documentary
Film: Time Lost
Director: Carla Gutierrez
School: Stanford University

First Place Best Animation or Experimental Short
Film: One Balloon
Directors: Aruna Naimji & Aram Hekinian
School: NYU

Runner Up Best Animation or Experimental Short
Film: Caesura
Directors: Leeanne Williams
School: Rhode Island School of Design

First Place Best Colorado Short Film
Film: One and The Same
Director: Wenhua Shi
School: University of Colorado at Boulder

Runner up, Best Colorado Short Film
Film: The Crestwood Variations
Director: Zach Armstrong
School: The Colorado Film School

Best Short Screenplay
Script: Stay Good
Writer: Julie Perez

Best Cinematography
Film: One and The Same
Director: Wenhua Shi
School: University of Colorado at Boulder

Audience Choice Award
Film: The Tragedy of Glady
Director: Karrie Crouse
School: North Carolina School of the Arts

Audience Choice Award (Runner up)
Film: Abstinence Man and the Orgy of Death
Director: Chris Obal
School: University of Texas at Austin

CONGRATULATIONS!
We will be contacting all winning filmmakers shortly regarding their prizes! Thanks for your excellent filmmaking contributions!

First Look is a film festival screening short films by the best student filmmakers in the world! Now in its fifth year the festival has shown hundreds of films from students all over the world and gained a reputation for screening entertaining and thought-provoking material. Past shows have included works from: USC,UCLA, AFI, NYU, CU-Denver, CU-Boulder, The Art Institute of Colorado, Boston College, The Polish National Film School, The Korean Film Academy, San Francisco State University, Stanford, BYU, Cal-Berekely and many more ...

When: April 21st-23rd 2005
Where: The Starz FilmCenter
Click here for directions.
Cost: $7/Person, $5/Student or DFS Member

Remember - Parking is FREE at the Tivoli with your validated ticket stub. This is true even when there is a Pepsi-Center event. Tell the parking attendant you are going to the FilmCenter and they will direct on how to proceed.