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The Same Air

Two years of showing up at SeriesFest — Denver's home for episodic storytelling — from a red carpet through a fashion runway to the Soirée stage twice over.

  • 2025 festival
  • Devil in Disguise
  • Soul Power premiere
  • Fashion in Focus
  • Season 12

SeriesFest · Denver, Colorado · 2025–2026

Words & photographs — Sindbad Horizon

For a few days each spring, SeriesFest turns Denver into a room where creators, audiences, and industry actually share the same air.

We've now sat in that room five times: the full 2025 festival, a November screening between seasons, a February premiere, a March fashion panel, and back for the main event in May 2026. We just kept showing up.

A moderator speaks from the SeriesFest podium, notecard in hand, before an empty panel row and the Season 11 branded screen.
012025 · The full festivalApr 30 – May 4, 2025

The deepest visit.

Official-selection screenings, on-stage Q&As, and panels, back to back. There's a saying about SeriesFest — you simply couldn't pull off this kind of intimate, high-access event in New York or LA.

SeriesFest 2025, in full
Venue signage for the SeriesFest screening of Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy.
02Devil in Disguise · between seasonsNovember 2025

A screening, and the craft underneath it.

SeriesFest presented Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, then put the creator and showrunner on stage — how structure, tone and perspective shape what an audience understands.

The screening, in full
Six people lined up on the red carpet at the SeriesFest step-and-repeat outside the Sie FilmCenter, two of them holding red-white-and-blue ABA basketballs, a broadcast camera in the foreground.
03Soul Power · a premiere before the stormFeb 18, 2026

Not a nostalgia trip.

SeriesFest brought Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association to the Sie FilmCenter for a screening and Q&A. As moderator Vic Lombardi framed it: this is much deeper than that — it's real.

Soul Power premiere, in full
A model in a plaid coat walks the runway past a floral arrangement, a big screen behind displaying a night skyline.
04Fashion in Focus · costume as characterMar 7, 2026

A nervous system, before dialogue.

A scouting mission to The Cable Center — a runway of more than forty models and costume installations, and a masterclass from Emmy-winning costume designer Molly Rogers.

Fashion in Focus, in full
Six members of a cast and producing team lined up on the SeriesFest red carpet at Season 12's opening night, the SeriesFest step-and-repeat behind them.
05Season 12 · the main eventMay 6–10, 2026

The room fills back up.

The first-look screening of The Four Seasons Season 2, the NBC100 drama-writers panel, and the Soirée's inaugural Visionary Award, presented to John J. Sie.

Season 12, in full

A counter-thesis kept surfacing across all five visits: as the synthetic proliferates, the value of real human encounters only increases. Five rooms, thirteen months, one relationship that keeps carrying forward — and SeriesFest's programming runs year-round, all the way to Season 13. We'll be back.