SOME COMMUNICATIONS BELOW
FROM FILM MAKERS AND FESTIVAL ATTENDEES
and more pictures after these
great words about the festival...

Benford, The Paso Robles Film
Festival was spectacular...exciting and full with excellent
movies.
I learned so much watching
"Piano Blues" and shall be eternally grateful to your for
guiding me to
"No Direction Home."
The concert with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Kyle Eastwood
was smashing.
The dinner party with Clint
Eastwood and everyone very gracious. It was obvious to
me from our
first phone conversation, and
then underscored by the way you ran the festival. You
are a director...
not about you...but about
movie makers. Thank you.
I thank you also for my award. I shall
cherish it, and the fact that
I was part of the festival with such magical dynamic music
and movies.
This festival has a great
future. I was lucky to be at the first.
Much Love, Susan Morgan
Cooper - Director "An Unlikely Weapon"

This is Adam Garcia, Director
of The Beverages. On behalf of Aden
(Co-Director)
and myself I would like to
thank you guys for a great experience. It was a lot of
fun and I hope that we
can come out again in the coming years :)

I attended the PRDFF
for a day and really like some of the projects submitted. I
am from
CFC DVD Distribution and
would love the get further contact information to all the
directors/producers of
submitted projects since none were listed on the catalog
that
was handed out. One in
particular is a Family feature film 'Thousand Hills' that I
briefly
saw and like to cut a
distribution deal.
Thanks!

Thanks for everything, and
sorry we could not make it to the festival, which
nonetheless
looked like it was a
stirring success! Best of luck with next year's festival!
John Klein

Yo back atchya Benford ~
Thank you for reaching
out. Yes indeed that is me in the pick organized by your
terrific
and talented staff
photographer Elisa Ramirez. The tall guy next to me with
the black cap
and goat fur would be
Rolling Stone tenor Sax player Joe Sublett and if you
should adjust
the credits for accuracy
my name is spelled Terence Later.
I had a blast and I
am looking forward to working with you in future to
make the music portion
as cool as the film
portion of the PRDFF. Norm Sancho said you had the
coolest event and
indeed he was right.
It was very cool meeting you and attending your
festival. All the guys
raved about how you
treated them royally and the result is you are on
the way to legendary
cowboy status.
Peace Through Victory, Terence Later

Thank you for such a
wonderful festival!
Shaahin
Cheyene

Thank you for bringing such a great event to Paso.
The content and the production quality
of each venue was
very professional and the admission price was great.
With you, I am
disappointed at the
numbers attending. I think a lot of the locals
didn't understand the
entertainment product
you put together. I personally didn't know of the
depth and variety
of offering until I
got a program. If you need some help next year
penetrating the local market
let me know, I
would like to help. I'm a local professional with
offices in Paso and Los Osos.
I have developed a
lot of contacts doing county wide fund raising and
other project. I would
be happy to volunteer
to outreach our local communities or at least give
some input if you
would be interested.
Just to let you know your efforts were notice and
appreciated and I
personally had a
great time. Best
Wishes,
Dr. Doug Major

Thank you for all of your
efforts in producing the festival.
Jayne McKay
Producer/Director
MAYNARD DIXON: ART AND SPIRIT

It's great to hear from
you and to get the picture. I've also been to your
website and looked at
almost everything. You
did a great job. I was about to write you to tell you
that we had a great
time, the BIJQ loved
playing, especially amidst all the other styles of
things that you presented.
Those who heard them
really seemed to have a good time. We'd be happy to
work with you
anytime in the
future. Just let us know.
Stephen C. Anderson, Director-Brubeck
Institute
Thanks again for developing
and delivering such a fantastic event.
I had a great time at the
festival.
Maceo Greenberg, film
maker

“Fender
Musical Instruments Corp. was proud to participate in this
wonderful film festival.
The
Silver Resonator we donated to benefit the
Paso Robles High School Student
Resource
Center
was made all the more valuable when
it was autographed by The Bacon Brothers, John
Andrew
Parks and the one and only (and legendary) Ramblin’ Jack
Elliott. Our company couldn’t
think
of a more worthy beneficiary than the Paso Robles High School
Resource Center.
On a
personal note, my wife Bettina and I thoroughly enjoyed
attending the festival. The movies,
musicians and panels were all of the highest caliber and
certainly one of my best memories was
getting
to hang out with Ramblin’ Jack to hear some of those amazing
recollections of his. My
wife
would say the same, and would of course add her meeting Clint
Eastwood.
Congratulations Benford on all you great work and we’ll be back
to see you soon.”
Del Breckenfeld Director,
Entertainment Marketing Fender Musical Instruments Corp.

Thank you for a wonderful
festival experience. The Martin and Weyrich Tasting
Room screening exceeded my
expectations. Glad to be part of the 1st
Spencer Wilkinson

I also wanted to again
express my personal thanks to you for initiating another
important arts event
for the north county
community. I feel this is one more step toward a broadened
arts experience for
all of us, regardless of
wherever we reside in the central coast area, and I hope you
will keep it moving
along. I'm grateful to Gary
Conway for getting me involved, and I hope you will keep me
in mind as
you plan for the '09 PRDFF
and other related events.
Again, it was great to finally meet you, and thanks for
creating an important and exciting new film festival
for our area...hope to have
the opportunity to collaborate with you in some fashion in
the future-
Dave Cole
three years as Vice-President of the San Luis Obispo
International Film Festival

A big congratulations on the
festival and a huge thanks for including our film -
No Regrets No Remorse.We were
lucky enough to pick up 'Best Musical
Comedy' which is much
appreciated.
Nicholas Cooper

A WILD WEST FILM FEST
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