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You’ve seen the films.
Now visit the actual film locations.

Chances are, you’ve already seen Utah on the Big Screen in one of more than 700 films and TV movies made in Utah.  Now it’s time to see just where they make them, because most are shot in our own backyard. Yeah…right in Utah!

So, let your vacation planning start with a copy of Filmed in Utah, available from the Utah Travel Council, 300 North State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114.  Or call us at 1-800-200-1160.  Here are highlights from Utah’s you’ve-seen-the films, now-see-where-we-make-them scene:

Special Event Featuring “Westerns” shot in Southern Utah
Western Legends Round-Up & Film Festival, 23 – 28 August 2005 August in Kanab, Utah.  The ’05 event features the 50th anniversary of Gunsmoke, the TV Western filmed on a set just outside Kanab, Utah.  www.westernlegendsroundup.com

Moab Film Museum
This one will get you Western buffs foaming at the mouth.  Located at Red Cliffs Lodge a few miles northeast of Moab, Utah along the Colorado River, it’s All Cowboy:  http://redcliffslodge.com/activities/movie-museum.htm

Gouldings Museum & Trading Post
Welcome to Monument Valley, Utah!  The real deal.  The Old West.  John Wayne & John Ford artifacts, mementos and pix and lots more memorabilia from a bygone era.  www.gouldings.com

Where God Put the West Movie Tour
One of Moab, Utah’s guide companies, Canyonlands By Night & Day, offers a unique tour:  http://www.canyonlandsbynight.com/movie_tours.html

And now for the Big One!

Sundance Film Festival 20-30 January 2005
Features independent film competition for the best dramatic and documentary films of the year. Theaters in and around Park City, Utah show films from 0800 to midnight.  www.sundance.org or 801.328.3456

European Syndication
“Touched by an Angel”, a TV series shot for a decade in Salt Lake City and around Utah, has gone into European syndication.

Current Project
“World’s Fastest Indian”- WFI Productions. (Feature): Principle photography began September, 2004.  CAST: Anthony Hopkins.  The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1970’s (Internet Movie Database Inc).

In the “Wild & Crazy” Department:
Bicknell International Film Festival (BIFF) Every summer during July, film buffs go crazy in Bicknell, a classic small town in south-central Utah near Capitol Reef National Park.  In 2003, BIFF featured “Disco De-Lux: Fine Films From America's Worst Fashion Decade!”  In 2004, BIFF featured “The Garden of Film & Evil,” a totally tongue-in-cheek” cine-weekend featuring vicious vegetables and plant paranoia.  Go figure!  If you Go: Capitol Reef National Park is a hiker’s paradise 20 minutes east of Bicknell.  www.WayneTheatre.com, www.nps.gov/care

Edited by Madelyn Miller

More about Utah:

GREAT GUIDEBOOKS
Hidden Southwest
By Richard Harris
Ulysses Press
www.ulyssespress.com

Let's Go Adventure Guide Southwest 2003
St. Martin's Press
www.stmartins.com

BEST WAY TO GET A TASTE OF UTAH
Red Mountain Spa Adventure Cuisine Cookbook
By Executive Chef Jim Gallivan
835-652-5742
www.redmtn.com

MORE FOR MOVIE MAVENS
New York: the Movie Lover’s Guide
The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York
By Richard Alleman
Broadway Books
www.broadwaybooks.com
includes star-studded restaurants and trendy nightclubs, posh movie-star pads and hip hotels

Hollywood: the Movie Lover’s Guide
The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie LA
By Richard Alleman
Broadway Books
www.broadwaybooks.com
written by a former actor and writer, is book highlights classic and contemporary locations plus burial sites of the dearly departed

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