{"id":133434,"date":"2026-06-15T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/co150-film-festival-screens-in-cortez-mancos\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T01:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:30:57","slug":"co150-film-festival-screens-in-cortez-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/co150-film-festival-screens-in-cortez-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"CO150 film festival screens in Cortez, Mancos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8e97f8a7-2c88-5b25-a956-a01989f1b6ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8e97f8a7-2c88-5b25-a956-a01989f1b6ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8e97f8a7-2c88-5b25-a956-a01989f1b6ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8e97f8a7-2c88-5b25-a956-a01989f1b6ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The Sunflower Theatre is hosting five of the 150 screenings statewide of films related to and taking place in Colorado throughout the year. (Ann Marie Vanderveen\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Sunflower Theatre is hosting five of the 150 screenings statewide of films related to and taking place in Colorado throughout the year. (Ann Marie Vanderveen\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>To celebrate Colorado\u2019s 150th anniversary, films produced in and showcasing the beauty of the Southwest will screen in historic venues throughout the state \u2013 including the Sunflower Theatre and the Mancos Opera House \u2013 through November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese venues are gathering spaces. They\u2019re important parts of the community,\u201d said Festival Director Rob DuRay.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative plans to host 150 screenings of the best movies connected to Colorado via their filming locations, inspirations, directors or cast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to feel like \u2018Oh, my God,\u2019 \u2013 they know this is from Colorado,\u201d DuRay said. \u201cThey\u2019re building pride together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue Grit\u201d screens at the Mancos Opera House at 7 p.m. Saturday. The 1969 Western starring John Wayne is a classic shakedown of a murderous outlaw, filmed in the Ouray and Montrose counties.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ruTdCaAWTNA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade,\u201d screening July 23 at the Sunflower Theatre, features Pagosa Springs in its adrenaline inducing introduction depicting a chase aboard a moving train.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very easy on-ramp to learn more about different aspects, different points in time in the state\u2019s history,\u201d Programming Director Chris Getzan said. \u201cDifferent things that were happening in Colorado show up in these movies.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MuU1Er7bfOU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Getzan pointed to the 1974 thriller \u201cMr. Majestyk,\u201d which takes place on a farm in La Junta and features Charles Bronson as its melon-growing protagonist. The film touches on farmworkers\u2019 issues, including those of immigrant farmworkers, capturing both regional and national discussions at the time, Getzan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a real rich history of cinema emanating from Colorado,\u201d Getzan said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/em6nLpVuC3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Silverton Powerhouse in Silverton will screen the 1950 Western comedy \u201cA Ticket to Tomahawk\u201d about the expansion of the Tomahawk and Western Railroad through the Rockies on Sept. 9. The film features a model train now in the possession of the Durango Historical Society and the Rio Grande Southern No. 20, kept at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. Festival directors plan to bring in an expert from the railroad museum to speak at the screening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great, fun way \u2013 easy way \u2013 to learn about the state, to learn about different points in the country\u2019s past,\u201d Getzan said.<\/p>\n<p>Other Southwest Colorado locations screening the program\u2019s films include Three Springs in Durango and the Liberty Theatre in Pagosa Springs.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of the CO150 movie selections and showtimes along with tickets is available at <a href=\"colorado150film.com\" id=\"link-b090ba8b584a2c9bb6d685f45bc36d21\" target=\"_blank\">colorado150film.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-e2bddf5bea5a7d46549363bfde32d47b\"><a href=\"mailto:avanderveen@the-journal.com\">avanderveen@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado\u2019s landscape and history are main features of films shown at the Sunflower Theatre, Mancos Opera House and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[120,21,1047,28,198,83,1107,29,6419],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-133434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-colorado","tag-cortez","tag-film","tag-headlines","tag-history","tag-mancos","tag-movies","tag-newsletter","tag-tj-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133528,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434\/revisions\/133528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133434"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=133434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}