Tour Guides

DON KELSEN

Tour Coordinator, Festival Committee Member, Photographer

Don has been attending and learning about Alabama Hills film locations since our first Festival in 1990. Inspiration for pinpointing filming locations comes from Kelsen’s association with Festival co-founder Dave Holland and their work together on Dave’s first video, On Location in Lone Pine.

GREG PARKER

Tour Guide, Festival Committee Member

Greg has been a dedicated Lone Pine movie location hunter since meeting late film festival board member, Ray Powell, in 1999. Greg’s found over 2000 Lone Pine scene locations — his first: finding the chase scene locations in High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart on Whitney Portal Rd. A graduate of USC and silent movie buff, Greg has lived in Reno, NV since 1978 and now serves on the Lone Pine Film Festival Committee.

KATIE VON SYDOW

Tour Guide, Museum Board Member, Geologist

Katie is a field geologist and a member of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Western Film History. She has a B.S. in Geology, a G.I.T. Certification from the State of California and her Master of Science, Earth and Environmental Science (M.S.E.E.S.) in Geology from Cal State San Bernardino. She lives with her partner, Justin, and their dog, Buddy, in Lone Pine.

THE DELGAUDIO BROTHERS: JOHN & MIKE - Tour Guides

The DelGaudio Brothers grew up in Huntington, Long Island and enjoyed watching old westerns on TV with their Dad. They’ve been traveling out to California to attend the Lone Pine Film Festival since 1996 and have been searching out and visiting film locations ever since. Mike still lives in Huntington and is a computer programmer. John lives in Fredericksburg, VA and is retired from the NY State Police.

PAGE WILLIAMS

Tour Guide, Historian, Photographer

Page is a California Historian, and a fifth generation native of California. Page spent over 40 years working in the film industry until her retirement five years ago. She is an avid photographer and horsewoman.

TYLER MALONE

Tour Guide, Writer, Professor

Tyler is a writer, professor, and film location hunter. He lives in Los Angeles and writes film, literature, and art criticism for the Los Angeles Times, the LA Review of Books, Poetry, Cineaste, Literary Hub, RogerEbert.com, Artforum, and elsewhere.

LARRY MAURICE

Tour Guide, Cowboy Poet MC and Host

Larry’s spent the last 36 years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada. You’re likely to find him on a horse when he is not performing his brand of Cowboy Poetry. He received the Lifetime Achievement in Cowboy Poetry Award from the National Cowboy Symposium, and the Academy of Western Artists’ coveted Will Rogers Cowboy Award for Cowboy Poet of the Year. Maurice has been a Lone Pine regular since the Festival’s beginning in 1989. www.larrymaurice.com

MEMBERS OF THE CHINA LAKE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The Society is a place for people who want to learn about, participate in, and share astronomy activities and education. They’re based in Ridgecrest and China Lake, California, in the Indian Wells Valley of the Mojave Desert — just over the mountains from Death Valley and some of the darkest skies in the United States. www.chinalakeastro.org