Hollywood Stars Expected at Temecula Film Festival

TEMECULA - More than 100 domestic and foreign films, shorts and documentaries will show today through Sunday at the 17th annual Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival.

Screenings are scheduled daily, from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., at the UltraStar Cinemas, 27531 Ynez Road.

Bands are slated to perform free shows outside the venue, starting tomorrow night.

The festival also will feature eight workshops on such subjects as writing a script and finding a distributor for an independent film.

Feature-length and short films, animated products and documentaries from the United States, Australia, China, Italy, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom will be showcased.

A special presentation of filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 musical romp ''At Long Last Love,'' starring Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd, is scheduled at 9 p.m. Saturday. Both Bogdanovich and Shepherd are expected to attend.

Bogdanovich, actresses Virginia Madsen and Connie Stevens, music industry executive Russ Regan and orchestra conductor Pete Anthony will be among honorees receiving lifetime achievement awards during a black tie gala Sunday night, which will close the festival.

During the event's Music Fest on Friday and Saturday nights, jazz, country, folk, pop and rock artists will take the stage in front of the cinema.

The roster of performers includes Ashley Zavata, Patrick Joseph, Wires on the Wall and The Worsties.