A return to the desert, with an overnight with Sharon, gave us two days to really play. It gave me the opportunity to do something I've always wanted to do... attend the Palm Springs Film Festival.
This event demands a little back history. The biggest driver of the Palm Springs International Film Festival's emergence was Sonny Bono, who in the late 1980s, felt that a film festival was exactly the kind of event that might extend the truncated tourist season in Palm Springs, and generate the kind of publicity that would help put Palm Springs on the map as a tourism destination year-round. The first year's Festival, in January of 1990, was an immediate success, drawing more than 17,000 filmgoers in the course of its five-day run, and generating positive press coverage from publications including the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter.
Another major factor in the Festival's emergence was the one-two punch of having Jimmy Stewart in 1992, then Frank Sinatra and Marcello Mastroianni in 1993 attend the Festival to receive awards in back-to-back years. Having such world-renowned talents here in the third and fourth years of the Festival generated huge publicity outside of Palm Springs, and propelled the event forward with both the mainstream media and filmgoers from all across North America. Those were the years and the circumstances that created the event's emergence as a force in the Festival world. This year, its 36th, the star presence was just as powerful. One year I want to be there for the entire series.Since I could only be there on Monday, we participated in the Best of the Fest.Best of the Fest features films top rated by the audience and Jury award winners, voted on throughout the festival. Only one film fit our timing and interests, Lilly."Patricia Clarkson shines in this rousing profile of courage as Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama Goodyear factory worker whose tireless fight for women’s equal pay went all the way to the Supreme Court. Like Norma Rae and Erin Brockovich, Lilly packs a sweet punch for justice." There were cheers and tears as we all sat spellbound. What a perfect, inspiring movie choice. I highly recommend this film!
Next stop was for art at the Rubine Red Gallery. Dots, Knots, Relics by Hale Ekinci is described as, “Modern Textiles with an edge of nostalgia and a sense of history in place.""Ekinci grew up immersed in a community of women crafting, often while sharing food, herbal remedies, and coffee readings. Upon emigrating to the United States, she became captivated by rituals from her heritage such as the use of amulets, and the cultural icons prevalent in her new environment such as party decorations. Rooted in her lived experience as a Middle Eastern immigrant woman becoming a naturalized American, she creates adorned mixed-media paintings, sculpture, and video embellished with vibrant colors, bold patterns, and autobiographical relics. Mixing textile crafts learned from family and Western fine arts traditions, her work explores the construction of identity through folklore, modes of communication, and gendered labor."%20(Medium).jpg)
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