CineVegas

CineVegas was a film festival held annually at the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada that ran from 1999 to 2009, typically in early June. Robin Greenspun serves as the Festival president, and Trevor Groth serves as artistic director. Actor Dennis Hopper was the chairman of the Festival's creative advisory board from 2004 until his death in 2010.

Over the past decade, CineVegas has established itself as one of the fastest growing film festivals in the world, with profiles in the New York Times,Los Angeles Times, and Time magazine. CineVegas was mentioned as one of the top 5 festivals to visit by Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper and was also named one of the top 5 gem festivals in the world by Variety, one of the top 12 film festivals in North America by San Francisco Magazine, and one of the top 7 events occurring in Las Vegas by LA Weekly. Combining world premiere films and independent cinema with celebrity honorees and panel discussions about filmmakers, writers, and talent, at night CineVegas also hosts parties in locations as diverse as bowling alleys, rooftops, and shark reefs.

CineVegas has hosted the world premieres of such films as 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 Ocean's Thirteen, You Kill Me, Whale Rider, Riding Giants, and . Honorees in past years have included Jon Voight, Willem Dafoe, Anjelica Huston, James Caan, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Kingsley, Viggo Mortensen, Don Cheadle, Christina Ricci, Charlize Theron, Nicolas Cage, Julian Schnabel, Holly Hunter, Mike Newell, Taylor Hackford, Ann-Margret, Helen Mirren, and David Lynch.

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