New partnership brings two additional nights of screenings to the Hi-Desert, featuring feature films starring Emile Hirsch, as well as films and documentaries shot in our area.
The Joshua Tree Film Office is partnering with the Yucca Valley Film Festival to extend the festival from three days to five, adding two special screening nights on November 4 and 5 at the local, multiscreen Paradigm movie theater.
While the Town of Yucca Valley, the festival’s main sponsor, will host its traditional three day program at the Yucca Valley Community Center, the Joshua Tree Film Office is coordinating two additional evenings.
The expansion is made possible through the support of two local sponsors, Cherie Miller & Associates and the Caputo Group, whose contributions are directly helping bring additional screenings to the community.
“The Joshua Tree Film Office wishes to warmly thank Madeleine Lavoie of Cherie Miller & Associates and Scott Ryuznick of the Caputo Group, who didn’t think twice before agreeing to help us with this new initiative. It serves the local film festival, local artists, and the local movie theater, and it’s another good reason for a date night or an evening out between Halloween and Thanksgiving!” says JTFO founder Matt Beurois.
The November 4 program will open with the short documentary Thank You For Listening following Nashville country music star Joshua Ray Walker, followed by the feature film Woozy, starring Into The Wild‘s Emile Hirsch.
Woozy director Joey Bicicchi and producer Mike Dozier will be in attendance for a QnA after the film.
On November 5, all films presented on the second night will feature local artists and projects filmed in the region.
Audiences will embark on a triple feature with Way Our West, a music documentary filmed locally with local music artist Danny Frankel (expected in attendance), followed by the internationally recognized documentary Sell Your House, with local resident director Eric Foss in attendance, to conclude with Crystal Cross, an ambitious and creative feature film with an incredible cast, showing an abundance of scenes filmed locally in our desert.
Will be in attendance:
- for Way Out West: local musician Danny Frankel and producer Chris Schlarb,
- for Sell Your House: director Eric Foss,
- for Crystal Cross: director Richie james Follin.
Tickets here.
