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The CineVegas Film Festival is a platform for artists and art lovers who are drawn to the edge. Held amidst the unique, unpredictable and intoxicating environment that is Las Vegas, the CineVegas Film Festival pushes the boundaries of cinema. The Festival annually presents work by innovative, uninhibited, and renegade artists to an audience of local and national film lovers, journalists, and film industry representatives. |
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CineVegas has come a long way from its humble, grassroots beginnings to the vibrant, fun-filled event that takes place every year in Sin City. Started by an enthusiastic group of film and art lovers, independent filmmakers, and movie industry veterans, the Festival first took place at Bally’s Hotel and Casino six years ago. With financial backing from Las Vegas Events and local businesses and individuals, Bally’s showroom and convention spaces were transformed into movie theatres and screening rooms. The Festival featured “The Best of the Fests,” bringing to Las Vegas independent films that were winning awards and acclaim at other festivals around the world.
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During Howard Hughes's fabled four-year tenure in the late '60s on the top floor of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, he took a hands-on approach to at least one part of his billion-dollar empire: the city's only television station, the CBS affiliate KLAS-TV, Channel 8, which he purchased from the Las Vegas Sun publisher Hank Greenspun. America's richest private citizen, as described in Michael Drosnin's "Citizen Hughes," spent much of his time programming three films a night, which he then watched commercial free, between 11:30 p.m. and 6 a.m., in a codeine-induced haze. |
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