Last night was the very last Red Rocks event of the year, Cinemocracy Rocks!. Like our regular Film on the Rocks programs on steroids, this time we had way musical acts (including The Apples in Stereo, Murs, Jill Sobule and more) and screened Election starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick.

Of course, the focal point of the evening had to be the top 10 short films (and three special selections) from the Cinemocracy short film competition. In this online contest, people uploaded videos about what democracy means to them. Then the public voted on their favorites and the winners screened at Red Rocks.

I have to give a shout out to my friend Isha Aran who directed “Democracy: A Marriage” and to Ryan Charmatz who created “The Short End of the Spaghetti” one of my all time favorite animated shorts.

I was upstairs in the Visitor’s Center for most of the night running the small press conference/filmmaker interviews. You can see footage from IFC News about it at IFC.com.

For now, though, here’s some pics….