No one believes me when I tell them that, for a week in April, Denver becomes the center of the television universe. A brigadoon for the Schmigadoons.
I still don’t know why Denver, but it has been happening for 11 years now, so I’m just going with the mile raised here.
Series has become a big problem for the city and the local entertainment industry.
At the end of what is essentially a fun and entirely public film festival for independent episodic television, around 15,000 people will have attended rescue projections from a 60 series of theater and comedy that soon hopes (or back) to a streaming service near you. It takes place mainly at the SIE Film Center.
There will also be parties, panels, awards and other activities, such as an independent film conversation with the head of the Film Film Festival to Boulderan “innovation speech” with the Executive TOP at Universal Televisionand a discuss AI With the unions that make films.
There will be several specific conversations for shows with casts and crews. One is “Cooper’s Bar”, which is itself a story of success in the Fest series. Seriesfest was the launch pad for more than a dozen independent projects which then obtained the consumer distribution.
Amy Schumer is one of the opening evening of the 2025 series on Tuesday April 29 in Red Rocks.
If you have never been, you should make feet (or cannonball) in your way in what has become a most unique stop on the local cultural calendar. But like any robust festival, you have so many options that making a plan may seem overwhelming. Here is an overview of the recommended Fest Series events that you may want to check until May 4.
The party starts Tuesday to Red Rocks with a night of comedy woven by Amy Schumer. She has become celebrity for her comedy, but has become a dramatic actor and actor of a remarkable screen who can clearly make people laugh. Example: his new Netflix comedy “Pregnant», A film on a spiral woman who accidentally falls for her dream guy when she accidentally puts a false baby bump.
Mia Jackson (“Life & Beth”) and Jaye McBride (“Netflix is a joke”), with music) The Honey Empire and the Voices Rock! choir.
The event with big tickets of the week is Friday evening “Fest evening series,“Where Badass” Better Call Saul “Star Rhea Seehorn will receive the festival’s agitation prize for agitation for his work work.
Seehorn is the executive creator and producer of “Cooper’s Bar“, Which was presented to the Fest series in 2020, was then taken over by AMC Networks, launched on AMC + in 2024, and quickly won Seehorn his third nomination at the Emmy Award (after two for playing Kim Wexler in” Better Call Saul “). Next, she will play in a next Vince Wexler without deadline in the Apple TV +series.
Also Friday, Michael Peña (“The Shield”) and Allen Leech (“Downton Abbey”) will accept the Impact in Television of the Fest. (They also speak on a sign at 1 p.m. Friday.) Jason Ritter (“Matlock”) will receive the distinguished artist Award, and the television prize in 2025 will go to Great Britain Carnival movies.
The party begins at 6 p.m. in Asterisk1075 Park avenue West.
Separated but equal, a special “Cooper’s Bar”Screening will take place at 5.30 p.m. ThursdayGiving advanced fans of episodes 4, 5 and 6 of season 2.
Many names related to Denver that you will not recognize, but they are the real power behind the cameras. Showrunners Carla Kettner (“Alert: Missing Persons Unit”); Barbie Kligman (“Doc”), Daniel Lawrence Taylor (“Boarders”), Eric Ledggin (“St. Denis Medical”), Audrey Morrissey (“Live Animals”) will include a panel called “Direct the story: in the world of showrunners“At noon on Saturday.
Other panels and workshops will approach The future of narration,, the power of the media and identity And how Crafts of convincing land. The director of the Sundance Film Festival, Eugene Hernandez, will participate in “Inside the independent ecosystem: film, television and festivalsWho will explore the interconnected forces that stimulate the landscape of narration today. (10 a.m. Thursday))
D’Arcy Carden and Will Forte Star in “Sunny nights», A new television series that obtains a special projection this week in the Fest series in Denver.
Marquee projection: “sunny nights”
Will Forte (“Saturday Night Live”) and Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”) Star in “Sunny nights», About a man who teams up with his sister in loose cannons to start a spraying company in Sydney – but they become tangled in the criminal world. The creators Nick Keetch and Ty Freer will be present for the 8 p.m. Wednesday projection.
Maury Povich, podcaster
Of the department “Bet you n’t a not award this coming”, Maury Povich comes for a live recording of his new podcast “Tied with Maury Povich. “The oldest day talk show host in television history will chat with a political journalist Jessica Yellin On the (regrettable) evolution of the media. (2:30 p.m. Saturday))
And the Podcast aclu “in Liberty“Will turn on the microphone on the host W. Kamau Bell For a live recording led by the actor Mo Fry Pasic, speaking with Bell of political comedy at this American moment. (5.30 p.m. Wednesday))
Chartered projection: “The four seasons”
Italian origin Marco Calvaniwho will make his acting in the United States in the next Netflix series by Tina Fey “The four seasons“Alongside Steve Carell, Colman Domingo and Will Forte, will receive the” Breakthrough actor “Prize in Fest during a 2 PM Thursday projection show. He will be joined by the Co-showrunner and co-series Tracey Wigfield. The show is based on the 1981 film of the same name.
Here is the field
A signature event for each Fest series is “Pitch-a-Thon“, Where dreamers are invited to present their ideas in front of an industry’s Bigwigs panel. Where can others independent content creators go before senior executives in the hope of advancing their unproduced projects? (Nowhere. This is where.) It is a fascinating and inspiring thing to look at. Lisa Ann WalterWho plays Melissa Schementi in the best ABC comedy “Abbott Elementary”. It is 9:30 am Thursday. She will be back at 4:15 p.m. Thursday For another panel called “The evolutionary role of actors in television. “”
From left to right: Marco Calvani, Lisa Ann Walter, Maury Povich and Michael Peña come to Denver for Fest series.
Who else comes to Denver?
Some of the actors who visit Fest series for screen or panel include Fawn cypress of “yellow jaques” (She is a coloradan living in the conifer), Jocko Sims (“Big Pointe Garden Society”); Stephen Moyer (“art detectives”); Cooper Raiff (“Hal & Harper”); Mayan Lopez (“Lopez against Lopez”) Louis Mustillo (“Cooper’s Bar”). The other showrunners and managers include Justin Spitzer (“St. Denis Medical”); Patrick Macmanus (“Devil in disguise”); Benoit Marchisio (“Proy”) and Kit Williamson (“unconventional”).
Governor Jared Polis, who is largely responsible for Colorado $ 5 million in annual tax incentives until 2029 For companies that turn in the state and hire locally.
The climate change comedy of Isabel Siragusa “Monearth Inc.” Will be projected at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday April 30 at the SIE Film Center as part of Seriesfest.
Fertility now!
A block of digital shorts will be packed for screening 2:45 p.m. Wednesday (April 30) at SIE. One to look at is Moterheth Inc.A feminist comedy that follows a young entrepreneur who starts a meeting application for people who do not want to have children because of climate change – only to discover that she is pregnant.
“Surprisingly, the development of the project made me realize that I wanted to have my own children despite all the negativity of our world, so I will attend the festival with my 10 -week son,” said filmmaker Isabel Siragusa. He features Nandini Bapat from “Silicon Valley” and “Abbot Elementary”.
HAS 3.30 p.m. ThursdayThe actress Sarah Adelman (“Game Theory”) will present a global projection of her new digital series “Broken!” He follows the true story of an impulsive scientist in an elite sperm bank in New York which is secretly in the moonlight as a hot stand-up actor. Also featuring the casting member of “Saturday Night Live” Emil Wakim and the Emmy Award, Judy Gold (“Life & Beth”). The co-creator and director Emily Everhard is a award-winning filmmaker in Colorado. Her sister, Sophie, plays a support role.
Sarah Adelman, on the left, brings her real story to project life into her new series “Bustated! Made with several members of the Everhard family from Colorado. It is presented this week at Seriesfest.
Online auction
Seriesfest has added an auction component that is unusual because it is responsible for items that you might want really, including a signed Nikola Jokic Basketball, a signed makar hocar hockey stick and an Electric Electric Guitar Epipone Signed by Nathaniel Rateliff and (all) night sweats. Are also offered and experiences on the set of “Bridgerton”, “Watch What Happens Live” by Andy Cohen! “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune”. Also: VIP tickets and behind the scenes at a live show “Pod Meets World” on June 4 at Denver’s Paramount Theater. Seriesfest.com/Soiree.
Seriesfest also makes its very first exhibition in the industry on the backlot of the SIE Film Center on Saturday May 3.
Amber Ruffin appeared with the Lake Street Dive group in Red Rocks to open Fest 2023 series.