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History of Reno Film Festival Celebrity Guests
2000-2011

The Reno Film Festival has been proud and honored to host the impressive list below of filmmakers
from all disciplines of the art of film. These individuals have all given of their time to share
their talent, stories and tips with festival attendees.


2011
Joel Cox
Oscar-winning film editor
(Unforgiven)

2010
Pilar Anderson

screenwriting consultant
Bob DeFlores
film historian
Kathrine Narducci
actor/director
Paul Petersen
actor/activist
James Russo
actor

2009
Michael Blake
Oscar-winning screenwriter
(Dances With Wolves)

Stella Stevens
actor
Kim Waltrip
producer
Audrey Loggia
producer

2008
Dean Jones
actor
Bobby Logan
director/producer/writer
Michael Semanick
Oscar-winning sound mixer
(The Lord of the Rings,
Return of the King and King Kong)

Dee Wallace
actor

2007
Ernie Hudson
actor
Robert Peters
actor/producer/writer
David Krumholtz
actor
Vanessa Britting
actor
Gordon Michaels
actor/writer/producer
Josh C. Waller
actor/director/writer
Mitch Carley
director/writer/cinematographer
David Garrett
writer/producer/actor
Gregg Rossen
producer/director/writer
Brian Sawyer
producer/director/writer
Robert Odegaard

2006
Festival moved from November to May

2005
Debbie Reynolds
actor
Amanda Seyfried
actor
Patrick Warburton
actor
Stephen Purris
producer/director/writer
Elpidia Carrillo
actor
Becca Gardner
actor

2004
Fred Roos
Oscar-winning producer
(Godfather II)
Cindy Williams
actor
Paul LeMat
actor
Candy Clark
actor
Charles Martin Smith
actor, director
Eleanor Lindo
director

 

2003
Christopher Lloyd
actor
John Savage
actor
John Saxon
actor
John Daly
Oscar-winning producer
(The Last Emperor, Platoon)
Bob Gale
screenwriter
(Back to the Future)
Jeff Arch
screenwriter
(Sleepless in Seattle)
Richard A. Harris
Oscar-winning film editor
(Titanic)
Wayne Kramer
director
Drew Johnson
director

2002
Elliott Gould
actor
Marlee Matlin
Oscar-winning actor
Piper Laurie
actor
Rhanda Haines
director
Shane Black
screenwriter
(Lethal Weapon)
Waldemar Kalinowski
production designer

2001
Tony Curtis
actor
George Sidney
director/producer
Dean Stockwell
actor
Patricia Hitchcock
actor and daughter of Alfred Hitchcock
Rudy DeLuca
actor/writer
Richard Krevolin
professor/screenwriter/playwright
Ellie Kanner
casting director

2000
Rod Steiger
Oscar-winning actor
Harold Gould
actor
Kevin McCarthy
actor
William Smith
actor
Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini
boxer/actor
Jim Wilson
Oscar-winning producer
(Dances With Wolves)

John Asher
director/actor
Sam Henry Kass
director/writer/producer
Pete McAlevey
producer