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NVFF - Is Napa Valley about to become Hollywood's next Sundance?

Hollywood & Vines

Excerpt from the North Bay
Bohemian
By Christina Julian


A fleet of Mercedes-Benzes crawl through downtown Napa. Later, they're motoring through the once sleepy streets of St. Helena, where restaurants boom well past midnight. Crowds jam the streets. Traffic is tight. Harvest is winding down, yet these towns clearly are not. Is this Napa Valley, or some Hollywood film in the making?


According to projections, such a bustling scene may be the future of the Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF), running Nov. 9–13.
In its inaugural year, the festival is poised to take over the region with nearly a hundred shorts, documentaries and feature films screening in venues from Napa to Calistoga over five days. Five thousand people are expected to attend, with enough winetasting, VIP parties and chauffeured celebrities to do Hollywood proud—but the question is, will the locals be equally enthused? Click here for full article

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