Film producer Ron Truppa has a number of friends who have produced film festivals in Hollywood over the years, and there reportedly are thousands held worldwide. So, the last thing Truppa felt the ...

For eight years, the Catalina Film Festival (CFF) has earnestly brought a range of fascinating independent features, shorts, documentaries and animated films to the big screen, selected for their ...

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 25, 2013) - The third annual Catalina Film Festival (CCF) wrapped on the famed Catalina Island this weekend. Filmmakers, industry execs, honored guests and ...

Catalina Film Festival founder Ron Truppa realizes that it’s a crowded time to be introducing a new sprocket opera into the world, but he believes the three-year-old Catalina event, which ran Sept. 18 ...

In honor of the longtime island resident, Jani Eisenhut, the Catalina Museum for Art & History is hosting a celebration for her birthday and to debut the fifth film in its Catalina Story Project ...

Ron Truppa is a history buff. A movie history buff. More specifically, a Catalina Island movie history buff. “There is so much people don’t know about movies and this island,” the co-founder and ...

The Catalina Film Festival returns this month — to Long Beach — to celebrate a decade of the arts and cinema featuring short films, narratives and documentaries by award-winning filmmakers. While ...

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STUDIO CITY (CBS) — Celebrate movies at the Catalina Film Festival! Ron Truppa visited the KCAL9 studios Monday to give viewers a preview of the upcoming 2012 Catalina Film Festival. The festival runs ...

AVALON CAN BE AN AURAL EXPERIENCE, from the thrum of the waves to the calls of seabirds to the laughter of people lounging on the sand. But there's also a sweet silence to the sweet spot, especially ...