For eight years, the Catalina Film Festival (CFF) has earnestly brought a range of fascinating independent features, shorts, documentaries and animated films to the big screen, selected for their ...

Film producer Ron Truppa has a number of friends who have produced film festivals in Hollywood over the years, and there reportedly are thousands held worldwide. So, the last thing Truppa felt the ...

Catalina Film Festival founder Ron Truppa realizes that it’s a crowded time to be introducing a new sprocket opera into the world, but he believes the three-year-old Catalina event, which ran Sept. 18 ...

The Catalina Film Festival is a celebration of film history, but the festival is still in its infancy. This year marked the weekend festival’s second incarnation, running from its opening gala ...

Ron Truppa is a history buff. A movie history buff. More specifically, a Catalina Island movie history buff. “There is so much people don’t know about movies and this island,” the co-founder and ...

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The Catalina Film Festival returns this month — to Long Beach — to celebrate a decade of the arts and cinema featuring short films, narratives and documentaries by award-winning filmmakers. While ...

STUDIO CITY (CBS) — Celebrate movies at the Catalina Film Festival! Ron Truppa visited the KCAL9 studios Monday to give viewers a preview of the upcoming 2012 Catalina Film Festival. The festival runs ...