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The Paso Robles Film Festival is proud to welcome The Bacon Brothers

One of the headlining acts from this years festival includes The Bacon Brothers featuring actor Kevin Bacon and his brother and musician Michael Bacon. Standley, with advice from local authorities on children and youth, is planning to donate a percentage of all proceeds from the festival to benefit some to-be named youth programs in Paso Robles. He is already setting up a link with Kevin Bacon's charity organization, www.sixdegrees.com, paypal.com and ebay.com, to network with this charitable element of the event, and direct other funds and donations to charity.

Area youth from the High School will be involved with the actual production of the Festival. Paso Robles, California, is located about 210-miles South of San Francisco, or 230-miles North of Los Angeles, and is historic for its natural hot-springs, Old West history (such as the legend of Jesse James), and 26,000-acres of California's best wine grapes. The town is located directly on U.S. Highway 101, with numerous high-quality hotels, fine restaurants, wine-tasting venues, and the popular California Mid-State Fairgrounds.




First Annual Paso Film Festival is happy to announce this year's theme!
Music In Film
Seasoned event promoter Benford Standley, some San Luis Obispo County folks, filmmakers, students and an extended network of friends and associates from Nashville to Austin, and Hollywood, are going to show up here in cowboy wine-country, with what promises to be a frist class film festival debut.

The kick-off theme is 'Music In Film', which means that aside from dozens of digital screenings of films and documentaries with the music front-and-center, there will also be a number of outstanding Jazz, Rock and Country-Western performances by well-known personalities and bands.

Headlining acts include The Bacon Brothers featuring actor Kevin Bacon and his brother and musician Michael Bacon, recipient of the President's National Medal of Arts and Grammy-winning legend Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the 'Kyle Eastwood Band' (featuring the son of film-star Clint Eastwood), as well as a special guest appearance by The Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet. Also featured will be gigs with musician Jack Tempchin, (songwriter singer and recorded by the The Eagles), legendary guitarist Norm Stephens (who played with Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard), Harold Jackson, (the only surviving member to be recruited by the original 'Ink-Spots'), Grammy Winner Louie Ortega, and many other award winning and notable music-makers. Other 'big surprise' musical guestsTo-Be-Announced.

Aside from cozy venues like Level Four, Hotel Cheval, Firefly Gallery, Matt's Music, Paso Robles Inn, Franklin's Hot-Springs, and others To-Be-Announced, where the music and screenings will take place, the festival will feature a 2,000-seat circus-tent stage for musicians and bands, and the Wild West Film Fest and Awards Concert.





Go Ahead, Make My Saturday
Bruce Ricker and Clint Eastwood


On Saturday during the festival, the festival will screen the 1980 Clint Eastwood film, Bronco Billy, for kids and families as well as Honkytonk Man, directed by Eastwood and starring himself and son Kyle Eastwood.

A very special 'Make My Saturday' screening will take place. Paying tribute to the musical and cinematic genius of Clint Eastwood, the festival will screen "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends", with director Bruce Ricker and Academy Award-winning Editor Joel Cox attending the screening. Also to be screened "Piano Blues", a Martin Scorsese Presents/A Film by Clint Eastwood and producer Bruce Ricker. The festival is fortunate to also be joined by "Piano Blues"co-editor, Gary Roach; also Lennie Niehaus, Emmy-winning and conductor/arranger/musician, who played with Stan Kenton and now is Eastwood's long-time composer. Joe Hyams, a legendary PR-man at Warner Brothers, who began doing Eastwood's press in 1971 will be there as well as others from Malpaso Music Machine.


Classics

Other classic documentaries to be screened are Martin Scorsese's 1978 film, "The Last Waltz", with some of rock-n-rolls' most well-known talent, along with film-maker D. A. Pennebacker's "Don't Look Back", on the legend of Bob Dylan (and other films about Dylan). Jonathan Demme's film, "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" will be viewed, as well as the 2004 film, "The Festival Express", which chronicles a concert-tour with Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, The Band, and other rock-legends. The 2006 film, "Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads" from director Hector Galen (in attendance at the screening), will be viewed, along with "The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack" from director Aiyana Elliott (2000), with Jack Elliott himself also on-hand. Other films will be announced, with some special surprises and rare documentaries and features, part of event promoter Standley's commitment to what he calls "the unknown history of the music world".