Red Rock Film Festival Opens TODAY in Cedar City

Red Rock Film Festival opens TODAY in Cedar City

October 10, 2022

Now in its 16th year, the Red Rock Film Festival has combined with the Utah Film Market for one large event in Cedar City. The Festival opens Monday with surfer music documentary “Sound of the Surf.” It then runs all week all day with over 65 films, even more films with its Virtual Festival, red carpet world premieres, filmmaker interviews, parties, and more seminars than before.

So far, the leading ticket sales are for those seminars, with the new documentary “Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West” and the new war vs. music feature “It’s Spring…” leading the pack.

Planning on attending her Southern Utah Premiere, Co-producer Anna Khachatryan said,

“This will be our second visit to Utah. Earlier this year, we had a private film screening for the Armenian diaspora in Salt Lake City. Now, we are excited to bring the film to a larger audience.”

In the local spectrum, Dan  Fowlks showcases the black & white version of “Shred of Decency,” which ties into the Festival’s theme of “Explore the Grey,” which social media posts described as “stories that are less obvious, the uncharted territory of independent film.”

A variety of genres is the key to the Festival. A simple click on ‘war’ the website’s Film & Events Guide reveals “A Tale of War Ranger,” a documentary that recounts Sergeant David Waterhouse’s service in Iraq and Afghanistan in a journey of innocence lost. A click on ‘France’ reveals five films from France: an animation comedy, a dark comedy, a bizarre comedy, a wrestling drama, and a documentary feature about the spirit of traditional Irish music.

If horses and birds are your thing, clicking on ‘Animals’ displays Best Friends Animal Society’s push for animals in films from animated shorts, the family adventure “The Island of Lost Girls,” falconry documentary “Overland” and “Wild Beauty” directed by Ashley Avis who started the project when she was filming scenes for Disney+ film “Black Beauty” in Utah one of several filmmakers in attendance.

The additional virtual portal is limited to Film Industry this year, and some supplemental videos to the public, such as “Soul Summit,” an earlier film from Tayo Giwa, who directed this year’s theatrical Mountain West Premiere of “The Sun Rises in the East” a pan-African cultural film one of several on the subject at the Festival, just click on the movie posters on the website for more details at redrockfilmfestival.eventive.org/films.

The Red Rock Film Festival & Market runs October 10-15 in Cedar City, Utah, from 1-11 pm — seminars at the Hampton Inn Cedar City on 1145 S. Bentley Boulevard — film premieres at the Cedar Fun Center cinemas at 170 East Fiddlers Canyon Road. Individual tickets: at the door or online — but purchase passes and ticket packages online at redrockfilmfestival.eventive.org/passes/buy for extra benefits such as dinner when you purchase the 6-Day VIP & Dinner Pass or scroll down and get the Sampler Package for a little of everything.