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  • Festival Information
    • Each year CineVegas highlights the most exciting offerings from up-and-coming filmmakers and visionary veterans, in-depth celebrity tributes and world premiere films set against the backdrop of Sin City. Robin Greenspun serves as the Festival's President, Trevor Groth serves as Artistic Director and Dennis Hopper serves as the Chairman of the Creative Advisory Board.

  • The Winning Director
    • Sol Tyron earned the Heineken Red Star Award at CineVegas 2007.

      Sol Tyron graduated from the International Film and TV Workshops in Rockport, Maine in 1998. In 2002, he produced his first narrative feature film, Bomb the System earned him a Spirit Award nomination for "Best First Feature." In 2005, Tryon worked on Shirin Neshat's most recent film, Zarin (Sundance 2007), and served as the executive producer on Weapons and director/producer on The Living Wake. The Living Wake earned the Audience Award at Woodstock 2007 and the Comedic Vision Award at the Austin Film Festival 2007.

  • The Winning Film
    • "The Living Wake"

      The Living Wake is a dark comedy that chronicles the final day in the life of self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew. Binew is a dreamer who elevates his drab and somewhat pitiful existence into a personal mythology. For his final day, K. Roth Binew enlists his best friend, the unrecognized poet and biographer Mills Joquin, to chronicle his final hours. Joquin drives Binew around town on a bicycle-powered rickshaw. As the eccentric duo go about their day, Binew hands out invitations to his final party - a living wake - where Binew will do a short performance before dropping dead on the spot.