Havey Productions, one of Denver’s leading film production companies and producers of several historical and cultural documentaries of significance, will premiere their new film, Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress this Friday, February 5, at the Hyatt Regency Denver – Convention Center Hotel. You are invited!
At Union Station Advocates, we’ve been working for over a year to help raise funds for the film’s production. Along with many other community groups and contributors, we are thrilled that this feature-length movie on Denver’s Union Station is now ready for its big debut. General Admission tickets are $15 and available at 6:00 PM. Patron Level tickets are $100 and include a hosted bar and hors d’oeuvres reception at 5:30 PM. To purchase tickets in advance or to check out a trailer of the move, click here.
Denver’s Union Station redevelopment has been a long time in the making. First, Lower Downtown blossomed in the 1990s. Then, the Central Platte Valley emerged in the 2000. Waiting patiently in between those two vibrant districts has been our historic Union Station and its neighboring parcels, which is now poised to be the star of the 2010s.
The excitement about this project is palpable. This past fall, 800 people packed Union Station for a party the likes of which the old station hasn’t seen in generations. Fundraising is underway to bring back the Welcome/Mizpah Arch to the Union Station site. New projects like the relocation of IMA Financial’s headquarters to the Union Station site are being announced. Design work for the massive project is nearing completion and the project authority, DUSPA, has a new website with all the latest renderings, plans, and diagrams. And now… Denver Union Station-The Movie… is set to premiere. Please join us this Friday to celebrate not only a movie, but the launch of Denver’s most important civic project since Denver International Airport.
Link to the trailer:
http://www.vimeo.com/7596441
How long is the film? Trying to figure out dinner plans that night.
Mark, the movie is 35 minutes. Hope you can make it!
Will the film be on local PBS sometime? Since it sounds like the film has a high production value, showing it on PBS would be a great way to reach a much larger audience. Speaking of PBS, I recently saw a very interesting and well produced show about large revitalization projects in downtown Kansas City, including a sports arena, entertainment complex, performing arts center, and commercial buildings. I have been to Kansas City recently and the design of the new sports arena and some of the public art downtown are great. I like alot of the projects completed in Denver over the last few years, but I think we need to push the envelope and have some more cutting edge architecture and public art. It seems the architects, city planners, and developers are overly concerned with everything “fitting in” or looking “Western.” I don’t think we will ever need any more horse, bear, deer, elk, cow, eagle, etc. sculptures.