Cinevegas 2010

CineVegas is a film festival held annually at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, typically in early June. Robin Greenspun serves as the Festival president, and Trevor Groth serves as artistic director. Actor Dennis Hopper is the chairman of the Festival's creative advisory board. Over the past decade, CineVegas has established itself as one of the fastest growing film festivals in the world, with recent profiles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Time magazine.

CineVegas was mentioned as one of the top 5 festivals to visit by Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper and was also named one of the top 5 gem festivals in the world by Variety, one of the top 12 film festivals in North America by San Francisco Magazine, and one of the top 7 events occurring in Las Vegas by LA Weekly. Combining world premiere films and independent cinema with celebrity honorees and panel discussions about filmmakers, writers, and talent, at night CineVegas also hosts parties in locations as diverse as bowling alleys, rooftops, and shark reefs.

Unfortunately, Dennis Lee Hooper died on May 29, 2010. He was "Spiritual Leader" of the CineVegas family. Therefor, CineVegas Festival President Robin Greenspun and Artistic Director Trevor Groth announced that the CineVegas Film Festival will not be held in 2010. On the website are currently no plans to continue the festival.

CineVegas has hosted the world premieres of such films as Land of the Dead, Spun, Bubba Ho-tep, and Artie Lange's Beer League, as well as advance screenings of high profile and independent films, shorts, and documentaries such as Ocean's Thirteen, You Kill Me, Whale Rider, Riding Giants, and The Aristocrats. Honorees in past years have included Jon Voight, Willem Dafoe, Anjelica Huston, James Caan, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Sir Ben Kingsley, Viggo Mortensen, Don Cheadle, Christina Ricci, Charlize Theron, Nicolas Cage, Julian Schnabel, Holly Hunter, Mike Newell, Taylor Hackford, Ann-Margret, Helen Mirren, and David Lynch.