Presenters & Moderators

RICHARD W. BANN

Tour Guide, Presenter, Historian, Author

is a film historian and author of books on Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, W.C. Fields, Hal Roach, and John Wayne. Bann was Vice President of Blackhawk Films, and served as consultant to CMG Worldwide agency, which represents the estates of Marilyn Monroe, Mark Twain, Babe Ruth, James Dean, Jackie Robinson, and others. Bann is a library consultant to European film and TV company Kirch Media GmbH, responsible for restoring and preserving the Hal Roach Studios 35mm nitrate film collection.

THOMAS KELSEY

Tour Guide, Presenter, Photojournalist, Author

Thomas Kelsey’s connection to the Eastern Sierra runs deep as he has skied, fished, hiked and photographed the area since the 1970’s. During his career, he has worked as a staff photographer at nine different newspapers including 12 years at the Los Angeles Times. In 1981, Kelsey was chosen to attend the Ansel Adams Workshop. He has published two books, The Spirit of the West and 75 Years Later-Warbirds, Airman & Veterans of World War II, a tribute that honors the Greatest Generation in 2020.

WARREN DAVEY

Presenter

has been a fan of westerns since a young whippersnapper in county Victoria, Australia. In his Davy Crockett coonskin hat, he nightly rode the range with Bonanza, Have Gun Will Travel, The Virginian and with that debonair Gene Barry in Bat Masterson. With partner in crime Ross Schnioffsky, he fell under the spell of the glorious Alabama Hills and the Lone Pine Film Festival and has made the long haul from the Southern Hemisphere a number of times. If you love westerns Lone Pine is the only place to be and it is full of friendly critters.

LARRY FLOYD

Presenter

Larry Floyd is a native Virginian and resides in Chesapeake Virginia with his wife Nell. He had a 33 year career in law enforcement retiring as Deputy Asst. Director Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation. He is the former director of the Williamsburg Film and Nostalgia Festival in Williamsburg VA. As a lifetime collector of antique firearms and student of western history he has done presentation at Lone Pine in the past.

PETER MASON

Presenter, Photographer, Broadcast Engineer

had a 20 year career in Broadcast TV Systems Engineering with National TeleConsultants, Glendale, CA. His work with NTC included consulting and design projects for major broadcasters and film studios including ABC, ESPN, Fox, Fox Sports, Warner Bros, DirecTV, and Viacom. He is currently an active volunteer with Veterans-TV.org, a job training program designed to teach specific skills to Veterans who are seeking a career in Broadcast TV.

DAVID MATUSZAK

Presenter, Author

is a Western historian and modernday frontiersman. He has written extensively about the American West, and has spent his life experiencing frontier adventures. From breaking horses, prospecting the Sierra Nevada, performing in a Wild West show, riding with the mounted posse, buffalo hunting, to ranching, Matuszak has spent his entire life living and exploring in the West. He brings to any discussion of the West real-life frontier experiences along with an academic background.

JAY C. MUNNS

Composer, Musician

has been entertaining audiences for nearly five decades, specializing in vintage American music from saloon piano to the great hits of the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s. He has performed for two U.S. presidents and entertained countless celebrities including Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as movie directors from Hal Roach and Mervyn Leroy to Steven Spielberg.

HENRY C. PARKE

Modertor, Screenwriter, Editor

Henry C. Parke is the Westerns film editor for True West Magazine and a screenwriter. A longtime Westerns aficionado he also writes for INSP TV and is he creator and writer of Henry’s Western RoundUp. He is a screenwriter having penned DOUBLE CROSS and SPEEDTRAP. Henry lives in Los Angeles with his wife of over 30 years, Stephanie.

LUIS I. REYES

Author, Scholar, Tours

Reyes is a nationally renowned film scholar, journalist, publicist and lecturer who is an authority on the history of Latinx in the Hollywood film Industry. He is the author and or co -author of several books on film including his latest VIVA HOLLYWOOD for Turner Classic Movies and Hachette Press. The Hawaii Movie and TV Book, with Ed Rampell, and Made In Mexico: Hollywood South of The Border.

ROSS SCHNIOFFSKY

Presenter

has been stumbling through the rocky mazes that crisscross the Alabama Hills since attending his first Festival in 2006. He sees himself as some sort of film time traveller who likes to wander in amongst the dusty trails and imagine that he is back with those creative filmmakers of the first half of the 20th Century. Ross, a retired university librarian, lives in Melbourne, Australia. Through covid he has still continued to be actively involved with the Festival thanks to the wonders of modern technology.

MARC WANAMAKER

Presenter, Archivist, Author

is a historian, archivist, and lecturer in film history. He founded Bison Archives in Los Angeles, a leading repository of research and photographs of motion picture history. He assisted in forming the American Film Institute facilities in Beverly Hills.His extensive list of publications includes over a dozen books as well as articles in the Los Angeles Times and interviews in numerous documentaries related to motion picture history.

ROB WORD

Moderator, Producer, Director

As one of the founding fathers and producer of the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s prestigious Golden Boot Awards (19832007), Emmy® nominated writer/ producer Rob Word’s love of the West best describes his work. He now hosts, produces, and directs YouTube’s long running interview series A WORD ON WESTERNS following a lengthy careet in the industry as a senior producer and creative consultant for Columbia TriStar, Lionsgate, MGM-UA, Universal Television, GetTV and Starz/Encore Media.