(PUEBLO, Colo.) — Filmmakers from Colorado and around the world were celebrated as they gathered in the steel city on Saturday, April 26, to showcase their unique eye for films.

Lieutenant Governor Dianne Primavera joined the Pueblo Film Festival this year, participating in the screening and discussion of “Nothing Safer,” a documentary she produced in partnership with the Colorado Office of Film, Television, and Media.

The documentary has been nominated for multiple awards and explores Colorado’s prison-trained K-9 companion program, highlighting how incarcerated women train rescue dogs that are later matched with children with medical needs.

“If people knew that some of the good work that is done behind the walls in the prison by the prison staff, by the public servants that work in the prisons, I think if they knew the kind of training and rehabilitation that prisoners get, and if they knew how great the dog program is, and they can adopt a dog with Colorado Correctional Industries, it’d be a win win win,” said Primavera.

The inaugural festival saw 70 film submissions, which came in various forms from short films to feature-length movies. This year’s festival showed 65 entries.