Red Rock Film Fest At Frontier Homestead
October 10-15 from 1-11 PM at Frontier Homestead
In addition to the 17th Annual Red Rock Film Festival, the Frontier Homestead State Park Museum will host three other events the same week in October, including the Utah Film Market, The M.A.R.S. Bazaar art and gift expo, and Haunted Homestead. Besides street parking, three parking lots are available to handle the traffic: at Homestead, the Visitors Center next door, and down Iron Mission Pkwy at Bicentennial Park.
The Haunted Homestead Carnival will offer games for the kids and guided ghost tours through the cemetery next door. The all-genre Red Rock Film Festival will also host some ghosts itself with two spooky shorts in addition to the several features and shorts this year.
In the vein of “A Quiet Place,” Hervé Freiburger’s French cerebral short “Avant la Nuit” (“Before Nightfall”) is suitable for all ages with no blood, gore, or monsters other than the end of the world succumbing to ‘the darkness.’ Bobby Louise White and Brig White met at 18 in Utah, and now raising a family, they make films together, including the short “The Ghost of Lost Angeles” about a very real ‘ghost’: a house invader. But this one is just a lonely woman randomly breaking into people’s homes to lounge about, eat their food, and dance with the disenchanted. Both films play repeatedly throughout the festival.
The Halloween season isn’t complete without Alice Cooper, who joins Steve Martin, Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Conan O’Brien, who are interviewed for “Show Business is My Life, But I Can’t Prove It (A Film about Gary Mule Deer)” a feature documentary from Red Rock alum G.B. Shannon. On the flip side are Carol Burnett, Olivia Newton-John, Kristin Chenoweth, Cynthia Gibb, Suzanne Somers, Belinda Carlisle, and drummer/former Mouseketeer Cubby O’Brien, who are interviewed in Randy Martin’s new documentary “Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection.”
The Utah Film Market will also screen a very select group of films, much lower than last year, including shorts and a double feature of Paul Willerton’s bike racing documentary “Flandrien” paired with Flemming Fynsk’s “The Art Whisperer” about art collector Ginny Williams.
For patrons looking for movie-themed or unusual arts, The M.A.R.S. Bazaar will be located on the front lawn of the Homestead, and Red Rock Pass holders will receive Bazaar Bucks to spend on merchandise and gifts. Some expected items include food trucks, fan art, Blu-rays, costumes, and other genre-themed gear.
The events take place at the Frontier Homestead on 635 N. Main in Cedar City, with the Red Rock Film Festival having the longest stay on October 10-15 from 1-11 PM. Haunted Homestead carnival is $2 or $8 per family.
Day Passes for the film festivals are $25, and shows are $10—tickets available at the Homestead or online at redrockfilmfestival.eventive.org/films.
Vendors can apply for The M.A.R.S. Bazaar at form.jotform.com/RedRockFilmFestival/2023-MARS.
