{"id":2451137,"date":"2019-11-14T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316053"},"modified":"2019-11-14T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T23:00:00","slug":"film-about-1974-aspen-bound-plane-crash-wins-documentary-feature-award-at-denver-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/film-about-1974-aspen-bound-plane-crash-wins-documentary-feature-award-at-denver-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Film about 1974 Aspen-bound plane crash wins Documentary Feature Award at Denver Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The documentary <a id=\"N0x1b66690N0x19b0730:N0x1b66690N0x19f7778\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/decades-after-aspen-bound-plane-crash-surviving-brothers-reckon-with-trauma-in-documentary-3-days-2-nights\/\">\u201c3 Days 2 Nights\u201d<\/a> won the Denver Film Festival\u2019s Documentary Feature prize, Denver Film announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Directed by John Breen and Jojo Pennebaker, \u201c3 Days 2 Nights\u201d tells the story of brothers Mark and Andy Godfrey surviving a 1974 plane crash while bound for an Aspen ski vacation. Following the crash, which killed their parents and two siblings, the boys survived three days on a mountainside outside Glenwood Springs before a miraculous rescue. After a long recovery at Aspen Valley Hospital, the boys stayed in Aspen and lived with an aunt and uncle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The film recounts both the tragedy itself and portrays the brothers\u2019 reconciliation as they confront their trauma after decades of silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The award was decided by audience votes through the festival\u2019s run from Oct. 31 through Nov. 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201c3 Days 2 Nights\u201d was among 250 titles to screen at the 42nd annual Denver Film Festival. It had its first screening \u2014 of an unfinished version \u2014 here <a id=\"N0x1b66690N0x19b0790:N0x1b66690N0x19f7a48\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/at-aspen-filmfest-plane-crash-survivors-mark-and-andy-godfrey-discuss-new-documentary-3-days-2-nights\/\">at Aspen Filmfest in September 2018<\/a>. That screening drew a capacity crowd to the Wheeler Opera House and included a panel discussion and earned the film runner-up honors for Best Film. It has been on the national film festival circuit since then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/film-about-1974-aspen-bound-plane-crash-wins-documentary-feature-award-at-denver-film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary \u201c3 Days 2 Nights\u201d won the Denver Film Festival\u2019s Documentary Feature prize, Denver Film announced Monday. Directed by John Breen and Jojo Pennebaker, \u201c3 Days 2 Nights\u201d tells the story of brothers Mark and Andy Godfrey surviving a 1974 plane crash while bound for an Aspen ski vacation. Following the crash, which killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 06:20:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}