PROGRAM
May
27 - 28 - 29
2022
SPECIAL SCREENINGS & EVENTS
Amigo The Devil: Caving In
Director: Courtney Gauger
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (30th Anniversary Screening)
Featuring director Phil Nibbelink & executive producer David Kirschner
An Evening Roundup with Ron Underwood:
City Slickers (30th Anniversary Screening) & Tremors
Featuring director Ron Underwood, moderated by Lisa Ogdie (BAFTA Los Angeles)
The Dandy Warhols (Live Concert)
Heartworn Highways (45th Anniversary Screening)
& Heartworn Highways Revisited
Featuring producer Graham Leader, moderated by Calvin Reeder (The Rambler)
Memberin' Monte Hellman: His Acid Westerns with Jack Nicholson
(The Shooting & Ride In The Whirlwind)
Presented by Jennifer Nicholson & Melissa Hellman
Mane Street Stampede: Pioneertown's Live Wild West Show
Restored Paramount Treasures (Secret Screenings)
Stupid, F*cking White Man: Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man
and the Indigenous Image in Westerns
Presented by programmer/filmmaker Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk)
& filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo)
Unspooled: Live From Pioneertown
Hosted by Amy Nicholson and Paul Scheer
MEET ME AT HIGH NOON
(Panels & Masterclasses)
Pioneertown: Truths and Taradiddles
Panel with author and showbiz historian Kliph Nesteroff, local author Kenneth Gentry, and filmmaker Tim Kirk
Get Shootin’
Masterclass with cinematographer Steve Holleran
How The West Was Preserved
Masterclass with Charlotte Barker & Jeff McCarty,
Film Preservation & Restoration Experts
FIRE-NEW FEATURES:
And With Him Came The West (USA)
Director: Mike Plante
Blanco En Blanco (Spain, Chile, France, Germany)
Director: Théo Court
California On Fire (United States)
Director: Jeff Frost
Cowboys (United States)
Director: Anna Kerrigan
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (Australia)
Director: Leah Purcell
The Inglorious Serfs (Ukraine)
Director: Roman Perfilyev
The Last Manhunt (USA)
** W O R L D P R E M I E R E **
Director: Christian Carmigo
The Mystery of Durango! (USA)
** W O R L D P R E M I E R E **
Director: Tim Kirk
Oro e Piombo (Gold & Lead) (Italy)
Director: Emiliano Ferrera
Puke (USA)
** W O R L D P R E M I E R E **
Director: Foster Huntington
SHORTS FILMS
20 Years For Revenge (Spain/USA)
Director: Roberto Jennizi
A Fistful of Rubbish (Spain)
Director: David Regos
All I Have To Offer You is Me (USA)
Director: Dillon Hayes
All The Reasons For Killing (USA)
Director: David de Juan Navarro
Archibald’s Syndrome (France)
Director: Daniel Perez
Astral Plane Drifter (USA)
Director: Mike Caravella/Joe di Gennaro
Aurora (USA, Chile)
Director: Thomas Negovan
The Cosmopolitan West (USA)
Director: Molly Ratermann
Cowboy Cookie (USA)
Director: Marco Colosimo and Brandon Kotfila
The Dead West (France)
Director: Students MMI2APP & LPMDN - Beziers IT
The Dentist (USA)
Director: Michael Brian Rawlins
El Débil - w.y.k (Colombia)
Director: Diego Ricardo
Girl Callin’ (USA)
Director: Tiffany Johnson
Inverted Cross (France)
Director: Pater/Son
John Parker and The Madman (Austria)
Director: Alexander Baldreich
The Legend of Long Ball Larry (USA)
Director: Christopher Donohue
Phantom 52 (USA)
Director: Geoff Marslett
A Rodeo Film (USA)
Director: Darius Dawson
Slip Away (USA)
Director: Guicho Flores
Spaghetti Western (USA)
Director: Charles Dye
Well (USA)
Director: Jim and Steve Powers
The Young King (USA)
Director: Larin Sullivan
VENUES
DESERT WILLOW
RANCH
The Desert Willow Ranch was purchased from Russel Hayden by John and Gay Smith in 1969. It’s 5 acre spread features many old west style structures which will be our designated welcoming center. From the moment you arrive at the PTIFF you will be completely submersed and transported to the days of the Old West. Sign-in, meet your hosts and grab a cocktail from our old west bar featuring Fistful of Bourbon before exploring Pioneertown.
HISTORIC
SOUND
STAGE
Our premiere theater location is the historic sound stage located on Mane Street in Pioneertown. Just a five minute walk from Desert Willow Ranch, the Sound Stage was built in 1947 when Pioneertown was originally founded by Roy Rogers and Gene Autry and used for many film and television productions. Today it serves as an event space and will be fully customized with theater seating and an Old West bar for our premiere screenings.
PIONEERTOWN
MOTEL
Built originally as a waypost for movie stars of old Western, Pioneertown Motel has stood since 1946 as a place for wearied travelers and sun-drunk revelers to seek solace and inspiration. Gene Autry played poker until sunrise in Room #9. The boutique motel and its landscaped grounds will host our VIP lounge & filmmakers and special guests will be put up in the motel as the festival’s official lodging.
HISTORIC
RED DOG SALOON
A revived historic saloon in the heart of Pioneertown, this completely intact bar - good for eatin', drinkin', and carryin’ on - will host the festival’s late night hangouts and nightcaps.
SUPER X
RANCH
The Super X Ranch, a barn with a view of the mesa and just a short walk from Mane street, serves as the festival’s secondary screening venue.
All screenings on 4k state-of-the-art Christie projectors
