Denver film 'Skills' wins festival award
John Lehndorff, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 30, 2007 at midnight
Skills Like This, a feature filmed in Denver in 2006, took home a Best of the Fest award at last week's Edinburgh International Film Festival, where the movie had its international premiere.
Skills was directed by Denver resident Monty Miranda and produced by Academy Award-winner Donna Dewey for her locally-based production company, Dewey-Obenchain Films.
The romantic comedy stars Spencer Berger — also the film's screenwriter — as Max Solomon, a playwright who realizes his talent and bliss lies not in penning plays, but in larceny. He falls in love with Lucy (played by Kerry Knuppe), the teller at the bank he robs.
Skills Like This also earned an Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the South By Southwest Film Festival earlier this year.
Dewey won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for A
Story of Healing, her film about plastic surgeons who traveled to
Vietnam to perform reconstructive surgery on children. Skills is
Miranda's feature directing debut. He has won international acclaim for
his commercial work.
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