sentences:  The first festival was held on May 4, 1978, and featured such films as "Annie Hall", "The Fury", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Pretty Baby".The festival kicked off with a 90-minute clip compilation from Warner Bros. titled ‘The Movies That Made Us.’ The festival was originally conceived and founded by Peter Warren, Ph.D., then a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver and by Irene Clurman, then the art critic for the Rocky Mountain News.The first artistic director was Ron Hecht, the manager of the Vogue theatre.