Go West Film Festival welcomed these talented guests to our 2021 festival.
Temple Grandin
Dr. Temple Grandin joined us in person on Monday November 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kress, when Go West screened the biographical film Temple Grandin (2010).
Dr. Grandin is Professor of Animal Sciences at Colorado State University. She is the author of numerous books on animal behavior and is a leading advocate for the awareness and understanding autism and the people who live with it. She explains her work on her website Temple Grandin .
Rodney Sauer
Go West welcomed Rodney Sauer back to the festival on November 9! He is the founder of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra and a leading expert on the musical repertoire of the silent film. In addition to his work as composer, performer, and conductor, Rodney has collected and preserved a significant body of silent film music and orchestrations. Learn more and hear Mont Alto performances at the website Rodney Sauer.
Tuesday November 9, 2021, 6:30 p.m. at the Kress: Live keyboard accompaniment by Rodney Sauer for The Daughter of Dawn (1920), using a film score by Charles Wakefield Cadman.
Cody Kuehl
The 2021 program cover and poster art features Cody Kuehl’s painting Bugle Boy. On the evening of November 9, Cody was on hand at the Kress to autograph the collectible 18x24-inch 2021 Go West Film Festival poster. All proceeds from poster sales benefit the festival. We are grateful for Cody’s continued support!
Cody is a Northern Colorado-born New Western artist who resides in Denver. Utilizing many different sources, Cody illustrates the West by pairing strong graphical themes with non-objective underlays. Cody shares this view to help us understand his approach:
The myth and ethos of the West live strong even today in American culture. The lone gunman of the West stands tall as an enduring symbol that people strive towards. The history that we try to live is a double-edged knife that cuts both ways, however. These paintings strive to build up and undercut, live into and criticize the American West as a force in our history that is both a powerful story of American ideals and a fundamentally flawed American character study.
Learn more and see other works by Cody Kuehl at his website Cody Kuehl.
The official 2021 Go West Film Festival poster (18x24 inches) featuring Bugle Boy by Cody Kuehl.