While the inaugural year of the Mile High Horror Film Festival boasted filmmaker Dan Myrick (The Director of The Blair Witch Project), Scarlet Salem (actress/model), and Bailey from Denver’s 93.3 as celebrity judges and showcased award-winning horror films from around the world, the true success of the festival had much more to do with a pass-holder’s comment that for her, film had “never been so intimate or alive as it was in the presence of those who had given it life.”  Truly, the greatest success of this festival had to do with the presence of the filmmakers who were able to answer questions and hear comments in the intimate venue at the Starz Film Center.  Somehow, art becomes a very different thing in the presence of the artist.  This is a characteristic unique...