By Sharon Swart

Over the past eight years, Sundance vet Trevor Groth has been moonlighting at a little festival in Nevada called CineVegas. He's built the fest into a post-Cannes destination for the indie world and a sassy summer answer to Sundance (though on a much smaller scale).

By Eric Kohn

If the CineVegas Film Festival opened a mere two weeks earlier, one could imagine the opening night slot going to Warner Bros’ newly released comedy “The Hangover.” As the summer’s first big hit, its tremendous eruption of popularity suggests that Vegas’s party vibe lies squarely within the collective imagination of the moviegoing public.

By Eugene Hernandez

The secret weapon, or at least ongoing inspiration, of the eleven year old CineVegas film festival is Dennis Hopper, the American actor (and artist) long associated with the renegade spirit of U.S. independent film from his work on such maverick movies as “Easy Rider” and “Blue Velvet,” among others.

By Kim Voynar

These folks at Cinevegas sure know how to throw some parties. I've skipped out on most of the bigger shindigs, but did make it to late-night bowling the other night (awesome time, and, for the record, drunk film biz people bowling = much hilarity if you're not drinking yourself) and to last night's smaller party in the Kingpin Suite at the Palms, which was just crazy. Bowling lanes in the suite, two tables of distributors (and a few non-distributors who managed to get in on the games) playing poker, DJ cranking out the tunes, amazing views of Vegas and a bathroom bigger than most NYC apartments.