Me and the marquee at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival

On the heels of our triumphant appearance in Hot Springs — more 200 people saw the film there — we’re off to Colorado this weekend for screenings at the Starz Denver Film Festival. This is looking like a real cool opportunity.

After the Sunday afternoon showing at the Denver Newspaper Agency, home to the city’s two dailies, we’ll have a panel discussion about the future of print journalism with a couple of local business scribes who’ve written about the financial and spiritual woes of newspapers.

The moderator is former Rocky Mountain News film critic Bob Denerstein, who recently took a buyout. The panel is sponsored by the Denver Press Club and the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. There’s a second screening at the Starz FilmCenter on Monday, and we’ll have DVDs for sale.

I’m also looking forward to catching some other films. As always, Starz Denver has a wide selection of international fare, and this year there are quite a few animated offerings. My wish list includes The Toe Tactic, A Christmas Tale, No Subtitles Necessary, Slumdog Millionaire, The Class, Waltz with Bashir, An Evening with Bruce Bickford, Obscene, The Guitar, Megalopolis and Cinemocracy. Here’s the full schedule.

Look for stories about Stop the Presses this weekend in the Rocky Mountain News and The Advocate, the school paper at the University of Colorado at Denver. We were interviewed by both.

Manny Mendoza

That is supposedly Alfred Hitchcock’s crane outside the Malco in Hot Springs

Me with poster-under-glass at the Malco

Me, second from left, talking about Stop the Presses on a San Francisco Chronicle podcast