Last fall, when this (tour) started we showed some short films, and it didn't really fit with the rest of the tour. So we wanted to do something that people could come in and look at.

It used to be that you had to have a lot of money to make a high quality film. Now, with digital video, anyone with a camera and a home computer can be a filmmaker.

We're just not quite sure how it's going to turn out. Under pressure you can either produce something brilliant or crap. It's that creativity crammed into such a short time that makes it interesting.

Part of the excitement about these 24-hour festivals is seeing where they will go. It will be interesting to see how everyone survives it.

I rode in the rest of the way to campus. I told the driver when I got off that the rear brakes were sticking and smoking.

Denver is politically and culturally out of sync with the rest of the state. It's very urbane. It's more heavily minority. It's a place that passed a liberal marijuana law and voted for John Kerry by 2 to 1.