We’re back where we started. Our second screening ever — 40 minutes of a work-in-progress — took place at last year’s Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Now we’re back at this year’s fest, already underway, with the completed Stop the Presses, which will have two showings at the Malco Theatre: 9:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. Mark’s already there, reporting that he’s just seen a great doc about New Orleans. I’ve read through the schedule and identified at least two dozen flicks I plan to check out after arriving Wednesday. Here’s the full schedule and the film synopses.

Stop the Presses also has been accepted by the Starz Denver Film Festival, which has been around for three decades and operates its own multi-screen theater, the Starz FilmCenter, year round. Mark and I are both attending the mid-November fest. In addition to a screening at the theater on Monday, Nov. 17, the film will show at the Denver Newspaper Agency, home to the area’s two daily newspapers, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, on Sunday, Nov. 16, sponsored by the Denver Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. Here’s the DPC announcement from its website:

Sunday, Nov. 16, 3 p.m., the DPC and SPJ will co-sponsor the Colorado premiere of “Stop the Presses - The American Newspaper in Peril” in the auditorium of the Denver Newspaper Agency, 101 W. Colfax Ave.

The documentary is being shown as part of the Denver International Film Festival. The film examines the economic pressures daily newspapers face. It features interviews with journalists such as Ben Bradlee, Dave Barry and Ken Auletta.

After the screening, there’ll be a panel discussion involving local journalists and producer/director Manny Mendoza, a former reporter for the Dallas Morning News. Participants include Al Lewis of the Dow Jones News Service and David Milstead of the Rocky Mountain News.

Manny Mendoza

Photo by Justin Parnell