THE COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FILM FESTIVAL
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        • #AsianAmResilience Microdocs
        • good enough
        • In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
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        • Charlie
        • Desert Lotus
        • Ara, Untamed
        • My Name is not Amy
      • 2022 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Sino Ako
        • All Mine
        • Winter Glass Glare
        • Core
        • Maa
        • Heart Sutra
    • 2021 Program >
      • 2021 Short Film Showcase >
        • #AsianAMCovidStories
        • Duo Pandemia
        • Mastery I & II
        • Ib Tsug 13 Hnub
        • Ntuj Tsim Txom
        • Mechamorphosis
        • The 3 Day Nun
        • The Loyal Betrayal
        • Voices
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Check Box: Other
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter >
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S2
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S1
        • Safe
        • In the Spotlight
    • 2020 Program >
      • Digital Program Book
      • 2020 Creative Conversations >
        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
        • 2/22 - Health & Mental Health
        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
      • 2020 Colorado Showcase >
        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
        • Three Worlds One Stage
        • Virtual Mandala
      • 2019 Festival Talkbacks >
        • Creative Leadership Talkback
        • CU Filmmaker Q&A
        • Film Industry Talkback
    • 2018 Program
    • 2017 Program >
      • Taipei Story
      • The Last Princess
      • Mid-Length Films Block
      • Ten Years
      • What's in the Darkness
      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl
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2019 Film Festival Talkbacks

This year, we will have three different opportunities to engage with our creative leaders and film experts from our Colorado community! Each talkback allows our panelists to share their personal stories, advice, and expertise. This is also a way for you to talk back to the leaders and experts in our community! 

 
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Wednesday, February 27
Zeppelin Station: 1:30-3:30PM
​
Creative Leadership Talkback / Lunch:
Women in Film, Arts, Community
​Festival Kickoff

Thank you panelists!
Zeppelin Station
3501 Wazee St.
Denver, CO 80216

This year we celebrate women in film, arts, and our community! Meet some of our creative leaders in Denver for this hour-long talkback and film festival kickoff! Audience members will have an opportunity to ask our panelists questions and stay for some networking at the end of our talks! Lunch and drinks available for purchase from one of the six tasty food stalls inside Zeppelin Station's beautiful open space.

​This event is free and open to the public! RSVP to be entered into a raffle drawing
​for a free ticket to one of our film festival screenings!

Talkback Panelists
Britta Erickson - Denver Film Society 
Erin Yoshimura - Empowerful Changes
Kathryn Gould & Trai Cartwright - WIFMCO 
Kerry Owens - Denver Zoo
Namita Khanna Nariani and Neeti Pawar - Mudra Dance Studio
Rachel Taylor & Cheyenne Michaels - Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Learn More!

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Saturday, March 2
CU Denver Filmmaker Q&A: 2:45PM

Following 1:15PM 2019 CU Denver Showcase

Join us in celebrating our partnership with the University of Colorado Denver - Collage of Arts and Media (CAM)! Our CU Denver Showcase features two films from CAM professors and a special 45 minute Filmmaker Q&A! See traditional cultures brought to life in the contemporary world, and experience some of the amazing work being done in the fields of art, entertainment, music, and technology. 

Our filmmakers will show you the creative ways they're engaging with our increasingly modern and globalized culture, and the innovative ways that programming and technology can be used to connect us with ancient traditions. After the films, you'll have a chance to ask them questions about their work!
​Panelists / Filmmakers
J. Cecilia Wu
CU Denver CAM - Recording Arts
Virtual Mandala | USA, 2015

Jessica McGaugh & Roma Sur
CU Denver CAM - Film & Television
Three Worlds, One Stage | Colorado, 2018

Learn More!

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Sunday, March 3
Film Industry Talkback: 2:20PM

Following 1:30PM 2019 Film Shorts Showcase

For our 2019 Local Artist and Debut Film Shorts Showcase, our filmmakers will be giving their Filmmaker's Statement for the debut of their first on-screen films. After the showcase, we'll have a 45 minute Talkback with film industry experts to hear their advice on film production, screen projection, and submission to film festivals! Our experts will critique the shorts made by our filmmakers and talk back to audience members who want to ask questions! This is a great talkback for aspiring filmmakers, film enthusiasts, writers, and artists!
Panelists

I Put the Bi in Bitter
Writer & Director - Marin Lepore

Production Crew - Kelley Zincone & Dannah Elizabeth
Actresses - Rhema Srihartiti (Sam), Rhianna DeVries (Alex), Evangelina Kisa (Naomi)

My Escape
Writer & Director - Steven Thai

Actress - Jordan Jenkins

Tears of the Sky
Eriko Tsogo

Learn More!

Contact Us

  • Home
  • About / Contact
  • 2023 Raffle
  • 2023 Program
    • 2023 Community Conversations >
      • 3/11 - Celebrating the Stories of our LGBTQ+ Asian American Pacific Islander Community
      • 3/12 - Celebrating the Stories of our Multiracial AAPI Community
    • 2023 Short Films Showcase >
      • Amache Rose
      • Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Findings
      • Dirty Rotten Tofu and the Gohan Girls
      • One Fine Day
      • Paddles on the Water
      • Soon
      • Thread
    • 2023 Emerging Artists Showcase >
      • 1992
      • Daruma
      • Esperanza
      • it's in the cards, fatherhood
      • My Grandpa Says He's an Alien
      • The Pomegranate Tree
      • The Waterspout
      • Yesterday I Was the Moon
  • Sponsors / Donors
  • Previous Programs
    • 2022 Program >
      • 2022 Community Conversations >
        • 3/5 - CAPU
        • 3/6 - AGI
      • 2022 Short Films Showcase >
        • #AsianAmResilience Microdocs
        • good enough
        • In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
        • Projections
        • Charlie
        • Desert Lotus
        • Ara, Untamed
        • My Name is not Amy
      • 2022 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Sino Ako
        • All Mine
        • Winter Glass Glare
        • Core
        • Maa
        • Heart Sutra
    • 2021 Program >
      • 2021 Short Film Showcase >
        • #AsianAMCovidStories
        • Duo Pandemia
        • Mastery I & II
        • Ib Tsug 13 Hnub
        • Ntuj Tsim Txom
        • Mechamorphosis
        • The 3 Day Nun
        • The Loyal Betrayal
        • Voices
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Check Box: Other
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter >
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S2
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S1
        • Safe
        • In the Spotlight
    • 2020 Program >
      • Digital Program Book
      • 2020 Creative Conversations >
        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
        • 2/22 - Health & Mental Health
        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
      • 2020 Colorado Showcase >
        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
        • Three Worlds One Stage
        • Virtual Mandala
      • 2019 Festival Talkbacks >
        • Creative Leadership Talkback
        • CU Filmmaker Q&A
        • Film Industry Talkback
    • 2018 Program
    • 2017 Program >
      • Taipei Story
      • The Last Princess
      • Mid-Length Films Block
      • Ten Years
      • What's in the Darkness
      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl
  • New Page