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Palm Springs

2020

When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

Lisa London

Lisa London is an accomplished actress & singer who hails from Palm Springs CA USA. Lisa has basked in the limelight since a teen. In high school she was a Bob Hope Classic Girl and had her own weekly column in the Desert Sun newspaper and interviewed local and international entertainment & sports celebrities for CBS radio. Lisa has starred in many films & TV roles and produced critically acclaimed theater productions she also acted in. Lisa London is Best Actress Nominee Short Film (Finding Momma) New York City International Film Festival 2016

Lindsay Hartley

Cast · Known for Passions

Lindsay Hartley is an American actress, singer, writer, and now director. She was born Lindsay Nicole Korman in Palm Springs, California, and is of Ashkenazi Jewish (father) and Greek and Italian (mother) origin. Singing since age eleven, Hartley was a national pre-teen talent winner of the Young Miss America Beauty Pageant. At the age of 14 she landed her first professional role playing Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, at the Mc Callum Theatre in Palm Desert, California. At 16, Hartley and her family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she graduated a year early from high school and headlined as the lead vocalist in the Las Vegas Sands Hotel afternoon show Viva Las Vegas. Shortly after attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Hartley had the great honor to move to New York City and perform on Broadway, in the hit musical Grease!. Hartley has won several national vocal competitions, including The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Award-Vocal/Opera, Hartley is most notably know for portraying the hopeless romantic Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC soap opera Passions, from 1999-2008. In 2000, she was not only nominated for the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer, she wrote the song Kiss Me for her character, which she performed that year on the show. In 2009, Soap Opera Digest announced that Hartley would join the cast of Days of Our Lives, another NBC soap opera, The following year, Hartley signed on to play the new character of Cara Castillo on All My Children. She was also cast as DC Comics character Mad Harriet during Smallville's tenth and final season. In 2013, Hartley once again played the role of Dr. Cara Castillo on the new All My Children being revived by Prospect Park. After landing her first lead in a movie entitled, Perfect on Paper, Hartley has joined the cast of Queens of Drama and couldn't be happier! Lindsay lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Isabella Justice Hartley, who was born on July 3, 2004.

Myko Olivier

Cast · Known for Castle

Myko Olivier is an actor and producer, known for Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017), Glee (2009) and Castle (2009). He was born in Palm Springs, Ca. He studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts at the conservatory acting studio Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He has been married to Rae Olivier since November 21, 2015.

Mickie McGowan

Cast · Casting · Known for Up, WALL·E, Inside Out

Mickie (Maryanne) McGowan was the daughter of Robert A. McGowan, writer/director of the "Our Gang Comedies." She was born in Culver City, Calif. and resided in Palm Springs, Calif. She continued to work as an animation voice actor, mainly for Disney and Pixar, until her death in March 2022.

Daniel T. Dorrance

Production Design · Known for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Daniel T. Dorrance is an American production designer. Originally from Rancho Mirage, California, he attended Palm Springs High School, where he learned drafting. He went on to begin his career working in the commercial world before moving into film through a set‐building company, Scenery West, in Los Angeles. He got early experience as an assistant art director under Thomas E. Sanders. Over the course of a career spanning several decades, he has worked on large-scale productions, collaborating with high-profile directors such as Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, and others. Some of the notable films he’s worked on as production designer or art director are Saving Private Ryan (1998), Collateral (2004), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). He is based in Rancho Mirage, where he keeps a home with his family when not working on location.

Andy Samberg

Cast · Known for Hotel Transylvania, Hotel Transylvania 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Andy Samberg (born David A. J. Samberg; August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer and writer. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts. Samberg has starred in several films, including Hot Rod (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), That's My Boy (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Palm Springs (2020). Samberg has had lead voice roles in Space Chimps (2008), the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film series (2009–2013), the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2022), and Storks (2016). From 2013 to 2021, he starred as Jake Peralta in the Fox, and later NBC, police procedural sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine for which he also produced. For his work on the show, he was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2013.

Scott Waugh

Director · Known for Expend4bles, Runner

Scott Waugh (born 1970) is an American film director, producer, and former stunt performer, best known for directing the 2012 war film Act of Valor with Mike McCoy. He also directed the Need for Speed film adaptation. He won the "10 Directors to Watch" award at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Christine Jones

Christine Young Jones is an American actress. Jones is the daughter of Robert Terry Jones and Jane Rickey. She is one of four children. Jones is the granddaughter of Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed Jackie Robinson. Jones graduated from Elmira College. She married Thomas Lipscomb on August 22, 1981. Jones first appeared in the 1975 film Cooley High, and later the TV series City of Angels ("Palm Springs Answer," 1976) and Serpico ("The Deadly Game," 1976). She also appeared in Woody Allen's Annie Hall in 1977 as Dorrie, and in Stealing Home as Grace Chandler in 1988. Other film appearances include Wild Thing (1987), Minotaur (1997) and Gang of Roses (2003).

Steve Boyum

Director · Known for Gen V

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steve Boyum (born September 9, 1952) is a long time Hollywood stunt performer, television director and film director. He has appeared in over 60 films as a stunt performer. He has lived in Palm Springs, California since 1987.

Pippa Black

Cast · Known for Neighbours

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pippa Black (born 16 October 1982) is an Australian actress. From 2005 to 2009, Black played Elle Robinson in the soap opera Neighbours. Currently, Black plays Tonya in the NBC series Outsourced. Black made small appearances in Australian television shows, student films and children's theatre before playing Elle Robinson in soap opera Neighbours for four years. Black has not ruled out a return to Neighbours in the future. Recent projects include Gemma Lee's short film The Wake, which premiered in June at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, and independent film Emergence, written and directed by, and starring Anthony Furlong. She is set to appear alongside Eloise Mignon (Neighbours' Bridget Parker) in City Homicide, an Australian television drama, as new mother Emily Rigby. She and Sweeney Young, also of Neighbours fame, portray a young couple in The John Butler Project's music video, "Coma". Black can be seen in an eye makeup advertisement for Australis Cosmetics. In it, she poses as a nurse who is so taken by one patient's eyeshadow that she applies it to her own eyes using her finger. Black attended St Patrick's Primary School in Mentone, Victoria and she later became a Vice Ca Black moved to Los Angeles in 2011 and shared an apartment with fellow Australian actor Tim Campbell. Black is a vegetarian and she starred in an ad campaign for PETA Asia Pacific in 2007. Black donned a gown made entirely of lettuce leaves. She said "[Vegetarianism] is a positive step to help stop animal suffering; it's also great for your health and the environment." Black has supported various charities including the Narre Warren Lighthouse Foundation and the Australian Childhood Foundation.

Peter Gallagher

Cast · Known for The O.C., Palm Springs, American Beauty

Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), American Beauty (1999), and Palm Springs (2020).

Ana Carrizales

Ana Carrizales is a Peruvian-Canadian writer, filmmaker and producer based in Vancouver, BC. She has directed and produced a number of films and short docs. Most recently, she produced the sci-fi drama The Shipment (Tribeca 2019, Palms Springs 2019, Hollyshorts 2019) and documentary The Day Don Died (Hot Docs 2019, Palm Springs 2019). Her latest film project, A Pregnant Woman (writer / director), was the recipient of the 2019 Harold Greenberg Fund and BC Arts Council Media Assistance Grant and is currently in post-production. Most recently, her feature documentary Shaman’s Shadow received The Rogers’ Developmental Fund and was accepted by the Whistler Documentary Lab. An engaged community member with a passion for supporting underrepresented voices in film, she has served on the boards of The Documentary Organization of Canada - BC Chapter (2017-2019) and the Vancouver Latin-American Film Festival (2017-2019). She also served as a juror for the DOXA Film Festival, Vancouver International Women in Film and Television Film Festival and VLAFF, and in 2018 volunteered as screener in the Whistler Film Festival. In addition to raising her two year old daughter Gabrielle, Ana is an instructor at Vancouver Film School, where she teaches film production.

James Quattrochi

James Quattrochi arrived in Los Angeles in 1991 - a young actor wanting to expand his involvement in the film industry. Having acted in many interesting projects his dream was to take his talents behind the camera. In 1995 James produced and stared in, In the Kingdom of the Blind, with William Petersen, Paul Winfield and Michael Biehn. The film was an official selection of the Palm Springs Film Festival and The Santa Barbara Film Festival. "Kingdom" went on to receive worldwide distribution, allowing James to follow up this project by directing the critically acclaimed film "True Friends". This film won the Charleston International Film Festival and James was voted "Best Up And Coming Director" by the Laifa Film Awards, with James receiving a letter of endorsement from director Martin Scorcese. The film was also honored with the Imagen Award, having been chosen over "The Mask of Zorro". James followed "True Friends" by directing "Jesus, Mary and Joey, starring Olympia Dukakis, Charles Durning, Stacy Keach, Jennifer Esposito, Marley Shelton, Leo Rossi, Jason Gedrick and Mellisa Joan Hart. James then took on the immense challenges of producing Choker, a film that was conceived, written, cast and shot in the span of only nine weeks. Last year James was hired to produce "All In" A father and daughter who get caught up in the world of championship poker, the film stars Dominique Swain, Michael Madsen, Academy Award Winner Louis Gossett, Jr., and James Russo. This film now has world wide distribution through Fox. His recent project "The Prince and The Pauper" James produced and directed this feature film starring The Sprouse Twins. Sony Pictures has signed on to distribute the film.

Meredith Hagner

Cast · Known for Palm Springs

Meredith Kathleen Hagner is an American actress. She began her career portraying Liberty Ciccone on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (2008–2010), which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2009. Following her departure from As the World Turns, she appeared as a series regular on the FX drama Lights Out (2011) and the TBS sitcom Men at Work (2012–2014). Hagner gained further prominence for her role as Portia Davenport in the TBS and HBO Max dark comedy series Search Party (2016–2022), receiving critical praise for her performance. She also appeared as a series regular on the Facebook Watch comedy-drama Strangers (2017–2018), the Quibi comedy Dummy (2020) and Apple TV's Bad Monkey (2024). Hagner's film roles include Hits (2014), Folk Hero & Funny Guy (2016), The Oath (2018), Brightburn (2019), and Palm Springs (2020).

Samantha Lockwood

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Samantha Lockwood (born April 28, 1982) is an American actress. She started in 2005 when she was named the "hottest girl in Lords of Dogtown" by Maxim Magazine in June 2005. She has appeared in CSI: NY and had a lead role in the indie western Return of the Outlaws released by Lionsgate in 2006. She plays the lead as Kate in Shoot the Hero with Jason Mewes and Danny Trejo, first shown at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Her father is actor Gary Lockwood, and her mother is actress and producer Denise DuBarry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Samantha Lockwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Larry Storch

Cast · Known for Love, American Style, Mannix, Sex and the Single Girl

As a kid in the 1930s growing up in a tough New York neighborhood, kinetic wiseguy Larry Storch took in the multi-ethnic flavor of his surroundings and started blurting out various accents as a juvenile to provoke laughs and earn attention. Little did he know that this early talent would take him on a six-decade journey as a prime actor and comedian. Larry's gift as an impressionist paid off early as a teen in vaudeville houses. Following military duty during WWII as a seaman (1942-1946), a happenstance meeting with comedian Phil Harris in Palm Springs led to an opening act gig at Ciro's for Lucille Ball's and Desi Arnaz' show. From there he received his biggest break yet on radio with "The Kraft Music Hall" when he was asked to sub for an ailing Frank Morgan. Larry not only delivered his patented star impersonations, he did a devastating one of Morgan himself that went over famously.

Paul Burke

Cast · Known for Naked City

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Burke (July 21, 1926 – September 13, 2009) was an American actor best known for his lead roles in two 1960s ABC television series, Naked City and Twelve O'Clock High. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of New York Police Department detective Adam Flint in Naked City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Burke (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Date of Death 13 September 2009, Palm Springs, California (leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma)

Chet Siegel

CHET SIEGEL is an actress, comedian, and cook. She developed her solo show/ immersive nervous breakdown, MY DEAD WEDDING, as a 2022-2023 CAMP Artist in Residence at Ars Nova and performed it at Ars Nova, Union Hall, & Littlefield in NYC. Performing credits include – Uncle Peckerhead, Alternatino (Comedy Central), Search Party (HBO), Chicago Med (NBC), and many independent projects that have appeared in Sundance, SXSW, Palm Springs Film Fest, NY Fringe, ANT Fest and other really cool festivals. She directed, wrote, performed, and taught improv and sketch comedy at UCB theater and Magnet Theater, and was the artistic director of Magnet’s Sketch Comedy program.

Bob Cobert

Composer · Known for Dark Shadows, Supertrain

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert "Bob" Cobert (October 26, 1924 – February 19, 2020) was an American composer who worked in television and films. He was best known for his work with producer/director Dan Curtis, especially on the TV miniseries The Winds of War (1983) and War and Remembrance (1988). His early work included composing for the soap opera Dark Shadows and the two tie-in films, and composing the score for the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, together with The Night Strangler, which became the pilots for the TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Cobert composed many game show themes. He also composed the music for the NBC soap opera The Doctors for a number of years as well as the ABC soap opera The Young Marrieds and the 1980-1981 CBS reality series That's My Line. Cobert died from pneumonia in Palm Springs, California at the age of 95.

Sonny Bono

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and politician. In partnership with his second wife, Cher, he formed the singing duo Sonny & Cher. A member of the Republican Party, Bono served as the 16th mayor of Palm Springs, California, from 1988 to 1992, and served as the U.S. representative for California's 44th district from 1995 until his death in 1998.

Amanda Treyz

Cinematographer · Known for High Potential

Amanda Treyz is an award-winning cinematographer whose films have screened at major international festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Locarno, BFI London and Los Angeles. Her work has won an ASC Heritage Award, a Student Emmy, audience awards at Aspen and Palm Springs, and twice been a finalist for the Student Academy Awards. Her films have been featured on Short of the Week, Vimeo Staff Picks and viewed over half a million times. She has shot over 15 feature films, as well as numerous shorts & music videos. Amanda is an alumnus of AFI’s MFA Cinematography Program and Brown University. She is currently based in Los Angeles.

Matt Porter

Matt Porter is a writer, director, and sometimes actor. He is the co-director/co-writer/co-star of the Webby Award-winning Comedy Central web series NEW TIMERS, and was featured as part of the "New Faces: Creators" category at the Just For Laughs comedy festival. Matt was the Field Director for The Chris Gethard Show on TruTV, and has written and directed content for Funny or Die, TBS, Adult Swim, MTV, Sony, and others. His web series Good Cop Great Cop, a collaboration with writer/cartoonist Charlie Hankin, has been screened at SXSW and was an official selection at the New York Television Festival. His narrative short films have screened at Tribeca, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Frameline, Hollyshorts, Short of the Week, and others. His short film DAMAGE won Best Narrative Short at the Riverrun International Film Festival in North Carolina, and his first feature film 5 DOCTORS, which he co-directed, co-wrote, and co-stars in, premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2016 and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures. He is currently writing for Family Guy, as well as for an upcoming show for Peacock. He graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010.

Kim Waltrip

Kim Waltrip is a Producer and Director. Her projects include the revolutionary trio of films "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" Him, Her and Them, starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis and William Hurt. The films "Him" and "Her" Premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and "Them" was in competition in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Other projects include, "Hit & Run" starring Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell and Bradley Cooper, "Back in the Day" starring Michael Rosenbaum, Morena Baccarin, Harland Williams and Nick Swardson. Her newest film, "Walk to Vegas" based on the true story about Hollywood big shots who will bet on anything is having its World Premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Other notable films include "A Very Mary Christmas" starring Elliott Gould, Cloris Leachman, Linda Gray, Gene Simmons, Della Reese, Fred Willard, Cybil Shepherd, Lainie Kazan and Olesya Rulin, "Adopt a Sailor," starring Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Coyote and Ethan Peck, "An Evergreen Christmas," featuring the legendary Robert Loggia, "I Didn't Come Here to Die," "A Thousand Cuts," the PBS special "Diahann Carroll, The Lady, The Music, The Legend," and many more, plus a variety of commercials and music videos with plenty of projects in development.