GAYLA! presentations Boulevard! A Hollywood Story USA, 2021, 85 minutes
Thursday, January 13 • 7:30 pm • PSHS In this astonishing and long-buried story, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young songwriters (and closeted lovers), were hired by screen icon Gloria Swanson to write a musical version of Sunset Boulevard. When Gloria fell for the handsome Stapley, life began to imitate art, with disastrous and far-reaching repercussions. Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
With: Robert Osborne, Brooke Anderson, Cari Beauchamp, David Del Valle, Stephen Michael Shearer, Stephen Bock
Sweetheart
UK, 2021, 103 minutes Saturday, January 8 • 7:00 pm • CAM Convinced she’s about to have the worst week of her life while on holiday with her gratingly upbeat and “normal” family, socially awkward misfit teen AJ (Nell Barlow) unexpectedly falls head over heels for a dreamy, flirtatious lifeguard named Isla. Director: Marley Morrison
Cast: Nell Barlow, Ella Rae-Smith, Jo Hartley, Sophia Di Martino, Samuel Anderson, Tabitha Byron
22 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | 2022
