CLINT EASTWOOD...NEED WE SAY
MORE?
Kevin Bacon
became a household name with such hit films as Footloose,
A Few Good Men, Mystic
River, directed by Clint
Eastwood, Murder in the First, River Wild and many
others, he was writing
songs on his own and playing
percussion in Philadelphia coffeehouses with his brother and other
groups. What most don’t realize is that
guitarist/vocalist Kevin and his older brother Michael (guitar,
vocals, cello) are lifelong musicians, which is of
course part of the reason why they’ve become
so good at
turning heads and tweaking ears, harvesting an ever-growing
fan base along the way.
For his part, Kevin is more
than eager to shuffle his busy film schedule around to
accommodate a
string of Bacon Brothers shows, even if it
means he has to bend over backwards to meet all of his
commitments. “It’s hard just to play them for myself, or my
wife,” he says of his songs, many of
which he sat on for decades. “I love to play, and I love to play live.
Kathleen
Quinlan-made her film debut in George Lucas' American Graffiti.
She has appeared in
over 50 films, and
known for her roll as Deborah, a schizophrenic, in I Never Promised You a Rose
Garden, for
which she earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion
Picture
Drama, and for a Golden
Globe and Oscar nominated turn for Best Supporting Actress category
in Apollo 13 opposite Tom Hanks.
Quinlan also made a mark as Jim Morrison's Celtic Pagan
lover in Oliver Stone's
The Doors,
and won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Support Actress
for
Breakdown with Kurt
Russell. Kathleen has a huge career in TV appearing in the TV series
House, 2006 remake of "The Hills Have
Eyes".
Bruce Ricker: On
September 12, 2007, TONY BENNETT: THE MUSIC NEVER ENDS ran on
national television on PBS. This was the fourth documentary directed
and/or produced by Bruce
Ricker, creator of Rhapsody Films.
Over the past 20 years Ricker has co-produced with Clint
Eastwood an
impressive repertoire of films including Mystic River, Clint
Eastwood’s Piano Blues,
The Bridges of Madison County and
many more.
Gary Busey
nominate d for an
Oscar for his first lead role in 1978's The Buddy Holly
Story,
in such films as
Lethal Weapon (1987, starring Mel Gibson) and Point
Break (1991, starring Keanu
Reeves). Raised in Oklahoma, Busey went to Hollywood in the late 1960s as a drummer in a
rock
band. In the early '70s he started working in the
movies, earning small parts in Thunderbolt and
Lightfoot
(1974, starring Clint Eastwood) and A Star is Born
(1976, starring Barbra Streisand).
Then his performance as
rock legend Buddy Holly made him a star. In addition
to roles in The Firm
(1993),
Lost Highway
(1997) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998),
Busey has done voice
work for the video game
Grand Theft
Auto and starred in Comedy Central's I'm With Busey
(03),
a "reality" show capitalizing on Busey's famously
oddball behavior.
Robert Carradine
best known for portraying Lewis Skolnick in the
successful Revenge of the Nerds
series of comedy films and Sam
McGuire on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.
Carradine
made his film debut in 1972 in
The Cowboys with John Wayne. He made an appearance as
a killer in the Martin
Scorsese film Mean Streets alongside his brother
David; again with David in The
Long Riders
about the Jesse James Gang, and was in Massacre at
Central High in 1976. His dad
was the actor John Carradine,
and he is the brother of Keith and the late David Carradine,
who we
were making arrangements
to have at the festival for the screening of
Bound For Glory.
Kyle Eastwood grew up
in Carmel, California as the eldest son of actor Clint
Eastwood. While
doing his homework Kyle
remembers listening to records of jazz stars such as Duke
Ellington,
Count Basie and Miles Davis
playing in the house. His father had been attending the
Monterey
Jazz Festival since it began in
1958 and when his children were born it became a yearly
family
outing. Kyle began working
in film with a contribution to the score for Mystic River.
The film later
won two Academy Awards. In
2004, Kyle signed to Candid Records, one of the leading jazz
labels
in the UK, and released his
second album Paris Blue. The album climbed to No. 1
on the French
Jazz charts.
Not satisfied with just a
critically acclaimed record, Kyle expanded his film work ,
composing three pieces of music
for the 2004 blockbuster Million Dollar Baby. The
film won four
Academy Awards.
Luke Perry best known for
his roll of Dylan McKay in the popular 1990s Beverly Hills
90210. He's
at the festival to support the
documentary "The Challenge of Champions: The Story of Lane
Frost
and Red Rock," about the famed
PRCA World Champion bullrider. He portrayed Frost in
the 1994
movie "8 Seconds." He has
done episodes for HBO critically acclaimed series "OZ".
Perry has
also appeared in "The Enemy", a
spy thriller opposite Roger Moore, and "Fogbound", a psycho-
sexual thriller. Perry
appeared in independent films and major studio productions
such as Columbia's
"Fifth Element", "Riot" for
Showtime; "Normal Life", for New Line; "American Stays", and
"The
Florentine", in which he
co-starred with Chris Penn, Jim Belushi, Michael Madsen and
Marth Stuart
Materson.
Gary
Conway has an extraordinary creative background from
the fine arts to the arts of viticulture
and
winemaking, it was in television where Gary first became
recognized worldwide, initially starring
in the TV
series "Burke's
Law," then
"Land of the Giants,"
the world’s most successful TV series.
Besides
starring in series and a multitude of episodic
television shows and TV movies for the three
networks,
he starred in many motion pictures. He is also a
prominent screenwriter with such credits
as
“Over the Top,”
and the “American
Ninja” series. He currently directed
and starred in the acclaimed
film
“Woman’s Story.”
A Renaissance man for our time, youngest artist to win a major
prize at the LA
County Art Exhibition and, before
age sixteen, was awarded full scholarships to the three most
prestigious art schools in the
country.
Cass Warner has the
honor of being a third-generation film maker. Her father, twice
Oscar-
nominated writer/producer Milton Sperling worked on the Warner
Bros. lot and her grandfather,
Harry Warner, was the President and
Founder of Warner Bros. studios. After studying acting with
the
acclaimed Milton Katselas, and learning screenwriting under the
mentorship of her father and
Howard Koch of "Casablanca" fame, her
production company, Warner Sisters, was born. Cass
carries on the
original Warner Bros. motto--making films that "educate, entertain and
enlighten."
Joel Cox (Editor) has
worked with Clint Eastwood for more than 30 years, on films that include
"Bird," "Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall," Tony Bennett: The
Music Never Ends," and
co-edited Clint Eastwood's "Piano Blues." Joel
has been editor on movies like “Flags of Our
Fathers,” “Million Dollar
Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,”
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Absolute Power,” “The
Bridges of Madison County,”
“A Perfect World,” and “Unforgiven,” for
which he won an Academy Award for Best Editor in 1992.
WE GAVE JOEL THE PADEREWSKI LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, and have great footage
of him in interviews and panel
discussion.
Ken Kragen has managed some of the world's
most important entertainers, including Kenny
Rogers,
Lionel Richie, Trisha Yearwood, Olivia Newton John, The Bee Gees, Burt Reynolds,
The
Smothers Brothers and many others. He was the creator and organizer of "We
Are the
World",
"Hands Across America", and Cisco System's "NetAid".
Kragen has produced a variety
of
film and television projects, ranging from the ground-breaking "Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour"
on CBS
to Kenny Rogers' "Gambler" movies, and numerous series, mini-series and
films. He
produced the "12 Dogs of Christmas" live action, full length feature film
based on his daughter's,
Emma's, best-selling children's book.
12DogsofChristmas.com To date this project
has sold
500,000 books and 700,000 DVDs. He and his friend Quincy Jones
produced a portion of the
1992
Presidential Inauguration. He has written the best selling book
"Life is a Contact Sport"
which
is filled with unique and well tested career advice.
Joe Estevez is an
American actor, director, and
producer. Starring in
well over 150 films, he has
a very large cult following, he
is a sought after voice-over actor, and has hosted numerous
documentaries.
He is the younger brother of
actor Martin Sheen and the uncle of Emilio Estevez,
and Charlie Sheen.
Joe loves to go back to
his roots as a stage actor when time permits. Joe
will do a Q & A after the
screening of the movie PrimeMates, a story of four men,
cigars and why
they cheat. He will join
his friends at Luck Films for some fun in Paso.
Max Gail
His acting debut came in 1970 in San
Francisco, California, playing the Chief in the
original stage
production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He is
best known for his
television role as Det. Stan "Wojo" Wojeciehowicz
from the sitcom Barney Miller (1975). Gail's
best known feature
film role is in D.C. Cab (1983) as Harold, Gail runs Full Circle, a production
company which has done
documentaries on such subjects as Agent Orange, Native Americans,
and
nuclear issues.
Bela
Lugosi, Jr. Lawyer specializing in the protection of intellectual property rights of
famous
celebrities. He was the plaintiff
in a landmark case involving the estate of his late father, famed
`Dracula' character actor Bela Lugosi Sr Lugosi also was involved in the enactment of the
California
Celebrity Rights Act of 1984. He is often retained to represent heirs of well known celebrities in
litigation over ownership and enforcement of intellectual property rights and
recently served as one
of the attorneys involved in the nearly five month-long
jury trial on the rights to "The Three Stooges."
Bela has been president of Lugosi Enterprises since 1963, and from 1995 to August 1999 he was
the Director and Executive Vice President, Corporate Acquisitions and
Development of C3
Entertainment Incorporated.
Brenda and Marc Lhormer
for a number of years produced the Sonoma Valley Film
Festival, and
are said to made it a top of the
line event, and are now venturing to produce the Napa Valley
Film
Festival in 2011. Brenda
and Marc coproduced the feature film
“Bottle Shock”—a “factional”
2008
retelling of the events
surrounding the 1976 “Judgment of Paris,” when Napa Valley
wine beat
French vintages in a blind
tasting, and brought Napa Valley and California wines to
National
attention. Brenda and
March have several films slated for 2011, and will stage an
reenactment of
the "Judgment of Paris" at
thePDFF, with Napa Valley and Paso Robles wines in
competition.
Nigel Sinclair is an
independent film and television producer who co-founded Intermedia Films
in
1996. Queen Elizabeth appointed him a Commander of the
British Empire (CBE) in recognition
of his work in the film industry.
One of his many credits includes the definitive documentary on Bob
Dylan, No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese. In
2002 Sinclair and East launched their
independent feature film and television production company, Spitfire Pictures, a
company dedicated
to
fostering the work of major artistic talents in both Britain and the United
States. Sinclair produced,
with Jeff
Rosen, Bob Dylan's Masked and Anonymous, directed by Larry Charles and
starring Bob
Dylan,
Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, and Luke Wilson.
In addition,
Sinclair
executive produced the worldwide smash hit Terminator 3: Rise of the
Machines, starring
Arnold
Schwarzenneger, as well as the Academy Award winning Adaptation,
starring Nicolas Cage
Joel Diamond
Billboard Magazine
described Diamond as, "one of Contemporary Music's Best
Record Producers sitting behind
the board." A 30-year industry veteran, multi-platinum
producer/
songwriter Joel Diamond
has produced and/or co-written over 36 gold and platinum
recordings,
plus movie soundtracks and
television themes, and has been a recording artist himself
on five
different labels. His career has
included everything from record production and song writing
to heading up the music
publishing companies for both Mercury (at which time his
second in
command was Tommy Mottola) and
CBS/Sony Records, serving in executive and creative
capacities. During his career,
he has also worked closely with such music icons as: James
Taylor,Laura
Nyro, Harry Nilson, Van Morrison, The Bee Gees, Rod Stewart,
Barry
Manilow, David Bowie, Dr. Hook, among
others.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is
considered one of the country's legendary foundations of folk
music.
Honored at the White House in 1998 with a National Medal of Arts
for his contribution to American
Folk Music, he was also awarded a
Grammy in 1996 for his "South Coast" recording. As one of the
last true
links to the great folk traditions of this country, with over 40 albums
under his belt. Jack
was a huge hugeinfluence on Bob
Dylan.
Chuck Banner worked
in developing children's programming, working with the Dallas Symphony
on AMAZING MUSIC, a family concert series (A&E, PBS) and in
co-production with Fireworks
Entertainment
on REAL KIDS, REAL ADVENTURES for the Discovery Kids Channel. His latest
production to air nationally on PBS was AMAZING MUSIC JAZZ, which he directed, produced
and
edited. Chuck is the son of the
legendary TV producer Bob Banner
and now runs his company in
Santa Monica. Chuck's Company is doing
our FILM OF THE FILM FESTIVAL...
Les Blank is a
prize-winning independent filmmaker, best known for a series of poetic
films that led
Time Magazine critic Jay Cocks to write, "I can't believe
that anyone interested in movies or America...
could watch Blank's work
without feeling they'd been granted a casual, soft-spoken revelation."
Dr.
Wachtang "Botso" Korisheli--From 1957 through the mid-’80s, Korisheli
brought m usic into
the lives
of countless youth with an unparalleled sphere of influence. In 1965
Korisheli founded the
San Luis
Obispo Youth Symphony. On the day of his father’s execution in Joseph
Stalin’s Soviet
Union,
14-year-old Botso Korisheli was granted 20 minutes to say goodbye.
“I
was able to see Dad
in
prison; he was in a small cell, and he was holding my mom’s hand,” recalls
Korisheli, 78, of that
day in
1936 when his outspoken father, celebrated Georgian actor Platon Korisheli,
was put to death
as an
enemy of the people.
“That’s where he told me everything
he wanted to tell me for the rest of
my life,”
continues Korisheli. “He said to me, ‘When you go to bed each night, ask
yourself: ‘Have I
done
enough?’ " His influence is world renown, just ask Kent Nagano, 48, of Berlin’s
Deutsche
Symphony,
or ask Gerald Folsom with the LA Philharmonic, or ask trumpeter Bob Bennett,
veteran
of the
Woody Herman Orchestra, and the many that he taught and inspired. We are
honored to
present
him with the Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award.
William Bronston
M.D.
founder, and CEO of Tower of Youth
nonprofit organization that works
with students and teachers in the
Sacramento/Sierra service area to enhance opportunities for
students to develop mastery of digital skills
and show their work at two showcases held in
Sacramento each year, one for short videos from the region
called Teen Digital Reel and Award
Showcase held every Spring and the North American All Youth
Film and Education Day every Fall.
He is the principal architect of Digital Arts Studio
Partnership Program model. Bronston is a
Physician who also served as the Medical Director, and senior
clinical system advisor for two
state agencies in California. He has been a forceful advocate for the medical
rights of people with
disabilities throughout his career.
Kenny Lewis
Long time guitar player with The Steve Miller Band.
An accomplished studio
guitarist and bassist for over 30 years, a
few of Kenny's credits include B.B. King, Eddie Money,
Dave Mason, Billy Preston, Meatloaf,
Boz Scaggs, Brian Wilson, and Steve Stills. Credited as one
of the songwriters who gave Steve Miller
"personality,"* His "Cool Magic" on the Steve Miller Band's
Abracadabra album reached Billboard's Hot 100 chart and his co-produced
"Shangri-La" on Italian
X-Rays was described as "the LP's standout
track." More recently, Kenny's co-produced "Why Can't
I Fall in Love" has become a college cult
favorite off the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack album and
his "Midnight Train" was picked as a single
on The Steve Miller Band's 1993 Wide River album.
Oscar Arslanian
Oscar’s roots are in show business.
After leaving Capitol Records as
Director of Media and Artist
Relations, he and his wife, Nyla, formed Arslanian & Associates
specializing in public relations and
management and working with such artists as Rick Nelson, The
Mamas & The Papas, Roy Orbison and
America. Oscar is personal manager to both Fabian and
Chris Montez and produces concerts
throughout the U.S. He produced the first live Oldies Rock ‘n
Roll pay-per-view TV broadcast before
85,000 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is well known for his
work with artists of the classic rock
era. As an active member of the Board of the Hollywood Chamber
of Commerce, and past Chairman of the
Board, the California Travel Industry Association named
Oscar to the California Tourism Hall
of Fame. He received The Golden Award from the Hollywood
Chamber Foundation in 2009 for his
many contributions to the Hollywood community.
Patrice Poujol is the director of Box
Productions, a digital media production and distribution
company based in Hong Kong and Ireland,
which produces and promotes film content to Asia.
Patrice
has just completed as Project Manager on the
1st Irish Film Festival in China, and is on the
board of the 1st Chinese film festival in Ireland
organized by the Confucius Institute. As a PhD
researcher
on the film business in China, and working on
the publication of his book: Film
Distribution in the Digital
Era: A Chinese Perspective. Patrice has just released his new film
TASTE and screened in
China and several film festivals. He is
presently working with thePDFF
producer Benford Standley on a
film festival simultaneous film festival in Las
Vegas and Macau,
China early 2013, and a
simultaneous festival 2012 between Paso Robles and Bordeoux,
France.
Del Breckenfeld: is Director of Entertainment Marketing at Fender Musical
Instruments Corp. He
developed a groundbreaking promotional program for
Anheuser-Busch, working with some of
the best marketers in the world.
Through his career, Breckenfeld has worked with some of the
biggest names in music and movies, including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton,
Tom Hanks and
Will Ferrell and television shows such as Two And A Half
Men and American Idol just to name a
few.
Len Del'Amico directed and/or
produced many concert films and music videos with
such artists
as Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, the
Allman Brothers Band, Linda Ronstadt, Blues Traveler,
Carlos Santana, Ray Charles, Reuben Blades, Bonnie
Raitt, and of course, Grateful Dead. Len first
worked with
Grateful Dead in 1980 on "Dead Ahead," the
band's live TV
broadcast and platinum
home video. He was the band's "film
and video guy" for the next 11 years. Dell'Amico
and Jerry
Garcia co-directed "So Far,"
the top-selling music video of 1988, which won the
American Film
Institute's
award for best long-form music program.
Dave Cole has a wide
variety of feature film and TV credits as an actor and a recent
three-year term
as Vice-President of the San Luis Obispo International
Film Festival, Central Coast denizen Dave
Cole has broadened his
involvement in the indie film ‘biz to include assisting filmmakers with
the
production, marketing, distribution and film festival strategizing
for their films, promoting The Center
for the Study of Film and History,
and working with some other film festivals and their programming.
Susan Morgan Cooper,
director/ producer An Unlikely Weapon. Susan was compelled to make her
first documentary, "Mirjana",about a young girl displaced by the Balkan
War." She was drawn to
Eddie Adams, the photographer in "An Unlikely
Weapon", because of his fascination with displaced
and oppressed people. In 2008 Susan is set to direct her first dramatic feature. Based on a
documentary she made a few years ago "Roadrunners" is the story of a cop
from East L.A. who
takes a group of gang kids and turns them into a
championship roller hockey team.
Sonny Curtis
My hero then was Sonny Curtis ... I admired
him so much, I wanted to
change my
name to Sonny. I even tried to stand like him.”--Waylon
Jennings From his West
Texas
beginnings as the lead guitarist in Buddy Holly’s pre-Crickets band to a
prolific songwriting
career, Sonny
Curtis is a rare talent who transcended musical genres long before the term
“crossover” was coined. He has penned over 500 songs, recorded by legendary
artists across
the music
spectrum, including Holly, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hank Williams, Jr.,
Bing
Crosby, The
Everly Brothers, and wrote their big hit "Walk Right Back", Nanci Griffith, Roy
Orbison,
The Stray Cats, and The Clash. Might mention that he wrote the huge hit "I Fought the
Law", and
Keith Whitley's record "I'm No Stranger to the Rain," which was voted
Country Music
Assoc.
single of the year in 1989.
Ann Dandridge
With
over 30 years in Public Relations consulting, Ann has helped
many
celebrities become the stars they are today. Ann
worked with one of her clients, Earl Mills for
ten
years to get his book optioned, which finally became the HBO
Movie
"Introducing Dorothy
Dandridge" starring Halle Berry, Dorothy is Ann's cousin,
She has worked with the likes of Eric
Root,
author of Lana Turner's Biography, Motown legend Martha
Reeves of Martha Reeves and
The Vandellas, Dr. Jerry Buss, owner of the LA Lakers, Ron
Rice, founder of Hawaiian Tropic
Suntan Lotion, Elaine Young, Beverly Hills Realtor to the
Stars, Mayor Harold Washington, 1st
Black Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Armand Hammer, CEO of
Occidental Petroleum and others.
Zev Robinson- filmmaker,
artist, photographer and world traveler. Zev lives in
Spain and is presently
working on documentaries on wine
as culture, history, and economic, with food related
projects next
on his film list. He has
explored the use of digital technologies in creating time
based art, videos and
random works. He will
screen "Life On The Douro" a documentary on the making of
Port wine on the
Douro River, the 3rd largest
river in the Iberian Peninsula, it is about 300 years of
history with direct
ties to the current wine making
there now. Zev also has produced a documentary on
wine, wineries
and winemakers of Dinastia
Vivanco in Rioja, Spain.
Angie Gega--aka Anjeza, an
actress/singer/dancer/model/humanitarian, was born in
Albania and
raised with a desire to belong
to the world. Her artist career started at a very
young age, when she
started to travel around the
world.
Dance awards, recent music releases,
appearances in many TV
shows and films, International singer
with a knowledge of more than 6 foreign
languages, are just a
few details that characterize her
persona. One of her strongest goal that
inspires her work, is the
desire to make a emotional and
financial difference in the world. She is also the CEO of a new
non-
profit organization called BECHLEM*--BECAUSE HE LEADS
ME, I SHINE". A non-profit
organization
to inspire, motivate and guide children,
(abused, sick, poor, and uneducated) to become better
leaders
and better communicators.
Lawrence
Kraman,
the founder of Newport Classic, which in its 26 year history
has been one of the
most
successful independent American classical CD companies, has
been producer and/or engineer
of more than
250 CDs, with repertoire ranging from modern orchestra to
period instrument ensembles,
electronica,
jazz and comedy. In 1995 he became Vice President for
International Product Development
for Sony
Classical for two years. Recently migrating to the visual
arts, he executive produced PDQ
Bach
in Houston for Acorn Media; as well as producing and
directing the critically acclaimed DVD of
Carlisle
Floyd's modern opera masterpiece, Willie Stark,
which had its broadcast debut in June 2008
on Louisiana
Public Television, an d a ten DVD set of concerts from
The Newport Music Festival 2007.
He has just
completed producing and directing David Amram: The
First 80 Years, a documentary
about
Classical/Jazz/film score composer/conductor/jazz French
hornist/ world musician and Beat
novelist,
Jack Keroauc's musical collaborator, David Amram.
Ivan Suvanjieff- was lead
singer/song writer for the infamous Detroit punk rock band,
'The Ramrods',
he was a journalist and an
editor at CREEM magazine, with his work being featured in
two recently
published books: "The Best of
Creem" and "Iggy Pop and the Stooges: The Authorized
Biography.
He is friends with a gang of the
"Beat/Kerouac" crowd (Alan Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski,
who
were contribution editors to his
literary magazine, "The New Censorship"...Ivan is friends
and works
with the legendary Don Was.
He co-founded PeaceJam Foundation, and has been nominated
for
the Nobel Peace Prize six times
for this good work, and he is Ex Producer and Director of
Photo-
graphy for '2012: The True Mayan
Prophecy'.
Rich Ferguson
is a magician, entertainer and poker columnist.
He is current spokesman
for a Dream For Kids, a local, San Luis Obispo California
charity. Rich's humorous and original
magic has enchanted audiences all over the world. Rich
combines magic, hypnosis and mentalism
to create a style of magic that is highly intriguing and
sets him apart from the rest as a world-class
magician. His slogan is "Where Magic & Mentalism Join
Hands." He performs for high profile
events, award shows, magic clubs, theatres and his hands are used as
extras in movies for cheats,
gambling, hustles, pick pockets and various manipulations
Christopher Felver is a
photographer and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited
internationally,
and his works are collected by numerous libraries and
museums, including Stanford University
Special Collections. He participated in the 53rd
Venice International Film Festival, and screened
films in festivals and
museums around the globe, including presentations at the Library of
Congress,
he received the Best Art Documentary Awards at the Cinema Arts
Centre Independent Film Festival,
and he was a Visiting Artist at the
American Academy in Rome.
Judie Hoyt stared working with
Clint Eastwood in 1975, on The Outlaw Josey Wales, after he
arrived at
Warner Brothers from Universal. She has worked with him for a total of
20 years, with a
couple of retirements in between. During these years
she has worked on the films Letters from Iwo
Jima, Flags of
Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Bird, Pale Rider ,Sudden
Impact,
Honkytonk Man and many more.
Dan Jones
was recently Chairman of the Ponca Nation. He was a Field
Producer on the
Emmy
nominated documentary 500 Nations,
working with Kevin Costner. Dan worked
for Disney
Imagineering on the Disney America
Project,
and performed with Sammy Davis Jr. and Wayne
Newton at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.
Jones' television
productions
include producing The World of American Indian Dance,
which premiered on NBC in 2003.
In
2001 Jones was the
co-host and co-producer of the First Americans in the Arts awards ceremony
webcast, with broadcast
partner Yahoo.com. In 1993 he received the Muse Award from the
Association of
American Museums for a work produced by the new Smithsonian National Museum
of the American Indian. Jones is a traditional
straight dancer and resides in his hometown of Ponca
City,
Oklahoma.
Kathy Kelly has over 25
years experience in all aspects of media communications. Her work has
included projects for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Turner Classic
Movies, Capitol Records,
MGM, Kal Kan, Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba,
Amgen, Gemstar, Hoover, Fitness Quest,
Braun, T-Fal, Conair, Murad, GNC,
Motorola and many other national and international consumer
brand
marketers. For two years she produced the Winery Music Awards,
then left Paso for greener
pastures.
Archie McLaren: Archie
McLaren is no stranger to the world of fine cuisine and rare wine. He is
the founding Bailli of the Central Coast Chapter of the Confrerie de la
Chaine des Rotisseurs, a
member of the Vintners’ Club of San Francisco,
the Wine & Food Society of San Francisco, the
San Francisco Chapter of
the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin and the Marin County Chapter
of
the International Wine & Food Society. He is one of only two Americans
inducted into the
Austrian Wine Brotherhood, and one of the few
Americans inducted into the Commanderie des
Bontemps - Medoc et Graves &
Sauternes et Barsac of Bordeaux in France.
Michael Lewis
has played with Frankie Valli,
DeBarge, Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson),
and was keyboard
player for the great Quicksilver Messenger Service for years. Michael was
Liberace's Music Director and
arranger, and produced three of Liberace's albums. He did the
music for Barbara Walter's TV
Specials, soundtrack for the TV show "In Search Of", narrated by
Mr. Spock and Leonard Nimoy.
Besides running his own music company, he has been music
director and playing with Dave
Somerville for many years, and will join him at the Festival on stage.
Chris Montez-was
born in Los Angeles and grew up in the town of Hawthorne. He was influenced
by his Hispanic culture and the rock 'n roll success of Richie Valens.
In 1962, Chris' single,
"Let's
Dance" hit the top 10 and he was on his way. He toured with Clyde McPhatter,
Sam Cooke,
The Platters
and Smokey Robinson. In 1963, while in Liverpool with Tommy Roe, his opening
act
was a new
English group, The Beatles.Herb Alpert dropped in on one of Chris' first
sessions and
suggested
that he try a soft ballad sound. It was a more conservative style than Chris
would have
preferred
but Alpert's instincts were good and the hits "The More I See You," "There
Will Never Be
Another You," "Call Me" and "Time After Time" followed in
quick succession.
John Andres Parks is a Songwriter's Songwriter, a Poet, and a Storyteller. Park's melodic
narratives run from windblown prairies and old jalopies to shooting stars across
the cosmic canvas.
As Kenny Rogers once said on an NBC Television Special, “John
Andrew is one of the greatest
singer/songwriters I’ve heard in 20 years,
and whether or not you like this song you have never
heard anything like it
before!” Willie Nelson has him on his list of favorite songwriters.
Kenny
Rodgers produced Park's Plant Texas in a video that was well well well ahead of its time using
music, film footage and animation. John
recently performed for 600 million people on China TV.
Jim Fogelsong, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy winner, commented: “John Andrew Parks’
influence will be felt for a decade to come.”
Gary D. Roach (Editor)
previously worked with Editor Joel Cox and Director Clint Eastwood as an
Assistant Editor on “Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Space
Cowboys,” “True Crime” and
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,”
among others. His additional assistant director credits
include “Catwoman,”
the miniseries “The Blues,” “Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years”
and “Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall.”
Vicki
Roberts
has had quite an illustrious career to date.
August Vicki completed a
documentary
called Wiener
Strudel ("Viennese Pastry")
in which she was the producer, pianist, and
featured
protagonist. She
has been a series regular on truTV's (formerly Court TV's) Disorder
in the
Court series and she recently appeared on Issues
with Jane Velez-Mitchell on
CNN's Headline
News.
In 08, Vicki appeared on VH1's Celebrity
Rehab with Dr. Drew as herself, as Gary Busey's
attorney,
and she also co-starred
on the nationally syndicated television show, Jury
Duty, as a
celebrity juror. She
is most recognized for her many recurring appearances on the
nationally
syndicated
television legal show, Celebrity Justice. She
has also appeared on Access
Hollywood,
Extra, E! Entertainment,MSNBC's The
Abrams Report, and VH1's
legal music show, Rock and a
Hard Place.
Rick Roas will be her
playing bass with Jack Tempchin, and will be here as a musician and a
panelist after the screening of NEIL YOUNG: Heart of Gold. He
has played bass for years with
Neil Young and is in the film. Rick has
also played with the likes of Joe Walsh, CSN&Y, Johnny
Rivers and many
more.
Dave Somerville-
As the lead singer on The Diamonds' "Little Darlin'" one of the
seminal
songs of rock and roll and classics
such as "Why do Fools Fall in Love?", "Silhouettes", and "The
Stroll". Dave was introduced to
his first 45 record player by Buddy Holly. This was only fitting
since Dave and The Diamonds' "Little
Darlin'" was the first hit record on that new seven inch
innovation, the 45 RPM record.
Bob Dylan said, "The songs I wrote at that age were just four
chords rhythm
and blues songs. Based on things that the Diamonds would sing."
Dave studied
acting with
Leonard “Mr. Spock” Nimoy and has guest starred in many TV shows, including
Star
Trek: The
Original Series. His song, “The Ballad of the Unknown Stuntman”, inspired
the creation
of the ABC
television series “The Fall Guy” starring Lee Majors. With additional lyrics
by the
producer, Glen
Larson, it became the show’s theme. He’s been honored in 4 musical
Halls of
Fame.
Norm Stephens
played guitar for Lefty Frizzell and on some of his super hits, he also played
with Hank Thompson, and toured with the one and only Merle
Haggard. Norm will perform on the
Pioneer Troubadour Stage
at the Festival, and discuss his part in the production of
the web based
TV series Pioneer Troubadours,
and talk about how the life of a
musician has changed from the
days he toured with Lefty on
the road with one of the kings of the road...Merle Haggard.
Jack
Tempchin
--Jack wrote a number of big
Eagles hits like ALREADY GONE and PEACE-
FULL EASY FEELING...Glenn Frey sang his
SMUGGLERS BLUES twas on Miami Vice TV
Soundtrack. has two songs on
the new Long Road Out of
Eden Album by the Eagles, on the
charts now. And, add he
wrote SLOW DANCING that Johnny Rivers had a huge hit with and
many others songs...stay tuned for
more on this very creative writer and singer of songs...
Johnny Rivers joined Jack Tempchin and band last year...
Maggie Warwhick--owner of the Louisiana Hayride"
The Hayride was where new things
happened, where people got started," said
Warwick, who appeared on The Hayride when she was
15 years old. "Shreveport was on the cutting
edge back then, Elvis had his start on The Hayride...
The Grand Ole Opry was too conservative...Elvis
" Maggie was active as a songwriter in Nashville
in the 1960s and 70s and is the recipient of ten
BMI awards for Top Ten hits.In all, Lewis has had
more than 100 songs cut by artists including
Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and Lynn
Anderson, and two of her songs are included on
the 2005 Grammy-winning compilation of Nashville
soul, Night Train to Nashville.
George Wilkins was the
"Composer in Residence " at Walt Disney Productions for over seven
years, making him responsible for writing, arranging and producing over
36 hours of music for film,
theatre and pavilion attractions at EPCOT,
Disneyworld, Disneyland California, France, Tokyo
and China.
Erin Murphy-daughter
of Dudley Murphy (1897–1968) who was one of early Hollywood’s
most
intriguing figures. Active from the 1920s through the 1940s, Murphy was one
of the industry’s
first
independents and a guiding intelligence behind some of the key films in
early twentieth-century
cinema.
Said to be a pioneering Hollywood maverick and bon vivant, and worked with
artist
Fernand
Léger, Murphy made Ballet mécanique, one of the seminal works of
avant-garde film.
He directed
Bessie Smith in her only film appearance, St. Louis Blues, and Paul
Robeson in The
Emperor
Jones. He had a hand in shaping Tod Browning’s
Dracula, gave
Bing Crosby one of his
first film
appearances, and collaborated with William Faulkner in attempting to bring
one of the
author’s
most challenging novels to the screen.
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