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The Duke City Shootout, dubbed by Premiere Magazine as "the world's strangest little film festival," is the latest incarnation of the world's first movie-making festival, launched in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2000. The festival was formerly known as Flicks on 66 and DigiFest Southwest. Event organizers solicit short scripts from around the world. The seven best are selected and the writers brought to Albuquerque to shoot, edit and premiere their movies in one week, using digital technology. The festival has produced more than 40 short films in its first six years.

The festival provides cast, crew, equipment, catering, editing facilities and industry mentors to guide the filmmakers. The movies are premiered on the final night of the festival. Previous mentors include director Jack Hill (Foxy Brown, Coffy), Barry Alexander Brown, editor for Spike Lee, producer Alton Walpole ("Koyaanisqatsi"), producer Michael Steinberg ("There's Something About Mary"), director Anthony Drazan ("Hurlyburly," "The West Wing"), director Christopher Coppola ("Belair," "Bloodhead"), actor Donal Logue ("Grounded For Life," "ER"), director of photography Alan Walker ("Soap," "Roseanne," "The Cosby Show," "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment") and writer/director Gregory Widen ("Highlander," "Backdraft"). Other notable participants include director Jay Roach ("Austin Powers," "Meet the Parents") and producer Linda Goldstein ("The Shipping News," "Whale Rider.")

The concept for the event was hatched over lunch in the summer of 1999 by co-founders Jim "Grubb" Graebner and Anthony DellaFlora, who wanted to create a festival that would stand out among the hundreds already existing. That fall, Graebner formed an LLC with partners Steve Anderson and Dennis Gromelski to launch the first festival, known as Flicks on 66. After two years, DellaFlora and Graebner split off to form the Digital Filmmaking Institute, a non-profit organization that took over operation of the festival in 2002. DFI, which also runs crew and above-the-line training programs, is dedicated to the promoting the art and technology of digital filmmaking.

In 2005, the festival took on Christopher Coppola and his EARS XXI production company of Los Angeles as a partner in the festival.

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