Non-profit organization founded in 1978 to promote film as both art forum and a civic forum with regular screenings, community outreach projects and festivals. They are known primarily for the annual November Starz Denver Film Festival, and the Starz FilmCenter, a seven-screen independent movie theater, featuring the finest in independent, foreign and art house cinema year-round.

Denver's cinematheque, screening more than 600 selections per year, offering first-run exclusives, best-of art-house cinema, foreign film, festivals, cinematique series and special film events.