The Pioneertown International Film Festival Announces The Opening Night Premiere Of "The Last Manhunt," a Jason Momoa-produced & Christian Camargo-directed Western, followed by a live performance by The Dandy Warhols
LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning filmmaker Julian T. Pinder and his team are proud to announce that the inaugural Pioneertown International Film Festival will be premiering of The Last Manhunt, a Jason Momoa-produced & Christian Camargo-directed Western movie, shot around Pioneertown.
The inaugural festival, presented by Fistful of Bourbon, will take place over the course of the last weekend of August (27-29 Aug 2021), in the iconic desert town everyone's talking about, just 2 hours from LA near Joshua Tree.
Intended for the true cinephile and experience-seeker alike, the Pioneertown International Film Festival will be repurposing the original buildings, sound stages and surrounding ranches built in the 1940's by Roy Rogers and friends as a living, breathing motion picture Western set.
Designed to be a 3-day immersive experience celebrating the Western genre and independent cinema, the Pioneertown International Film Festival will be featuring an Opening Night performance by The Dandy Warhols, presenting premieres, restored Paramount classics, anniversary screenings, legendary actors and filmmakers in attendance, live bands, masterclasses, events, and much more.
A special presentation titled Stupid F*cking White Man: The Indigenous Image in Westerns is being hosted by programmer and filmmaker Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk), Associate Director of the Sundance Indigenous Program, and joined by the creator of FX's Reservation Dogs Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee [Creek]) as they discuss the legacy of Jim Jarmusch's Western Dead Man.
The festival's Head Programmer is Todd Luoto, formerly of the Sundance, CineVegas and Silver Lake Film Festivals.
The celebrities and industry professionals involved for this inaugural year include many of the filmmakers whose films are being showcased or premiered; a performance by THE DANDY WARHOLS; the CAST of The Last Manhunt attending the Opening Night Premiere; JOE DANTE, director of The Burbs, Gremlins, Innerspace, and JOSH OLSON, writer, A History of Violence, recording their podcast The Movies That Made Me; RON UNDERWOOD, director of City Slickers and Tremors, presenting a 30th anniversary of City Slickers; Director PHIL NIBBELINK and producer DAVID KIRSCHNER presenting an anniversary screening of their Western animation An American Tail: Fievel Goes West; GRAHAM LEADER presenting anniversary screenings of his iconic Outlaw Country documentaries Heartworn Highways & Heartworn Highways Revisited; and the festival's prestigious Board of Advisors,: actress and daughter of Jack Nicholson JENNIFER NICHOLSON, Producer CHRIS HANLEY (Spring Breakers, American Psycho, The Virgin Suicides, Buffalo 66…), actor and director CHRISTIAN CAMARGO (Dexter, House of Cards, The Twilight Saga), musician MAT DEVINE, (lead singer of the band Kill Hannah, Head of Music Partnerships at CAMEO), actor RAOUL MAX TRUJILLO (The Mayans, iconic villain Zero Wolf in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto), actress, producer and daughter of filmmaker Monte Hellman, MELISSA HELLMAN (Occupational Hazards, For Muriel, Macadam à deux voies…), top tier entertainment lawyer JORDAN M. BROWNING, and co-founders MIKE BRUCE and ALAN TRIGER.
The mission of the festival is not just to screen the inspiring work of classic and neo Westerns, but also provide a wide range of immersive experiences centered around the American culture of the west: finely curated film screenings, masterclasses, live music, screenings under the stars will make sure to transport you to the heart of the American frontier.
Full Program and list of films to be announced in mid July.
INFORMATION AND TICKETS: www.pioneertownfilmfest.com
Founder:
Filmmaker JULIAN T PINDER
(Director & Producer of "Fire Chasers" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Netflix, multiple award-winning feature films, documentaries, and television series, founder of production company Deliberate Films)
Head Programmer: Todd Luoto
Formerly of the Sundance, CineVegas and Silver Lake Film Festivals
SOURCE Pioneertown International Film Festival
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