Don’t miss the Idyllwild Cinema Festival’s
Official Opening Night Film
A Summer Night
Starting Chuti Tiu (Amazon Original’s Expats, Yellowstone)
Tuesday 6 pm
and again Saturday 10 am
The Rustic Theatre
Directed by Oscar Torre
The Historic Rustic Theatre and The Idyllwild Cinema Festival. Celebrating a 15 year partnership showcasing cinema excellence from around the globe!
Idyllwild 2024
March 5-10
Idyllwild California
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A brand new episode of the Stephen Savage Show, featuring interviews with six of this year’s Idyllwild Cinema Festival Spotlight Filmmakers. On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
A brand new episode of The Stephen Savage Show is now available. On this episode, Savage interviews renowned director and script supervisor Faye Brenner on her work on some of the most iconic Hollywood Blockbusters of the past few decades.
The Stephen Savage Show. Official IDY Awards Nominations 2024. On this epsidode, Savage announces The Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema Film Awards Nominations for 2024.
A film crew (including actors and directors), and by proxy, the finished film itself, is only as good its most negative link. Everyone on set is an artist in his our her own right. It’s their movie too. Act accordingly.
Screenwriting is a separate art unto itself. When Howard Hughes was asked whether or not the Spruce Goose would actually fly, he answered, “That’s not the point is it?” The film may never be made, but the story on the page is immortal.