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Top: Photographer Andrea David is known for taking images from famous movie scenes, and bringing them to the locations where the scenes were filmed, and then taking a photo of the image lined up with the background. Seen here, she tracked down the location of a scene from Star Trek, filmed in the San Rafael Swell. [Photo by Andrea David/Courtesy of Utah Film Commission]
Bottom: Moab’s Red Rock Arts Festival takes place Sept. 27-29 and features live music, vendors, workshops and more for adults and kids, alike. [Photo by Nathaniel Clark]
Magazine front cover: A scene from The Lone Ranger (2013) being filmed on a cliff edge high above the Colorado River near Moab. [Walt Disney Pictures/Courtesy of the Utah Film Commission]
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A mecca for movie-making
Southeastern Utah marks 75 years as a favorite of filmmakers
Written by Rachel Fixsen
2024 is the 75th anniversary of the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission, the 50th anniversary of the Utah Film Commission and the 100th anniversary of filming in Utah, which began with 1924’s “The Covered Wagon,” directed by Ogden-born James Cruze.
Both the Utah and Moab to Monument Valley film commissions are celebrating these anniversaries with events looking back on some of the most iconic movies produced in the state and region.
The film industry is deeply embedded in the history of southeastern Utah—and the landscapes of Grand and San Juan counties have made an indelible mark on the movie industry.
Celebrating milestones
This is the fifth year that the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission has helped to host CineMoab, a local filmmaking competition. Each year has a theme and a set of parameters, and teams have a window of time to create a short movie that meets the criteria. This year’s theme is “Made/Remade” and each team will be randomly assigned two classic movies filmed in the area, and two movie genres. The task is to “remake” one of the movies in one of the randomly given genres—for example, “Thelma & Louise” as sci-fi, or “The Lone Ranger” as fantasy.
“It’s just super-exciting and fun,” says Bega Metzner, director of the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission. At least 11 teams have signed up for the competition so far. Submissions will be shown at Star Hall on October 4, and winners will receive prizes. In a nod to the film
commission’s 75th anniversary, the time limit for each film is 7.5 minutes.
Also commemorating movies made in the state, the Utah Film Commission has partnered with the Utah Division of Arts & Museums to curate a traveling exhibit looking back at film in Utah. It will be on display at the Grand County Public Library from late October until late November. Yet more movie memorabilia and local lore are on permanent display at the Moab Museum of Film and Western Heritage, housed in the Red Cliffs Lodge.
Metzner is also in the early stages of planning a formal ball to mark the commission’s birthday, and to “celebrate some of the local community that have been involved in film,” she says. Many locals in the region have had close ties to the movie industry, going back nearly a century.
Opposite page: Production crews film a scene from Westworld (2016) at a location near Moab. [HBO / Courtesy of Utah Film Commission] Top: The climactic scene from Thelma and Louise (1991), filmed near Moab at Fossil Point — now known as Thelma and Louise Point. Photographer Andrea David is known for taking an image of a famous movie scene, and bringing it to the location where the scene was filmed, and then taking a photo of the image lined up with the background. [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Courtesy of the Utah Office of Tourism - Photo by Andrea David / @filmtourismus.de] Bottom: This year marks the 100th anniversary of moviemaking in Utah, which began with 1924’s “The Covered Wagon,” filmed in northern Utah and directed by Ogden-born James Cruze. [Paramount Pictures / Courtesy of Utah Film Commission]
Large photo: Violinist Tessa Lark [Photo by Richard Bowditch]
Top right: Music Director Michael Barrett [Photo by Richard Bowditch]
Classic films made in the region
Grand and San Juan counties have served as backdrops and sets for countless movies, TV shows, music videos and commercials. Dozens of feature films have been shot in the region, including enduring classics like “Forrest Gump” (1994), “Thelma & Louise” (1991), and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) — not to mention director John Ford’s genre-defining Westerns, like “Stagecoach” (1939) and “Rio Grande” (1950).
In the early 20th century, a couple named Harry and Leone Goulding operated a trading post in Monument Valley, which is now the Navajo Nation’s Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, known for its vertical sandstone towers and buttes standing out from a stark landscape. The Gouldings promoted Monument Valley as a filming location, hoping to spur economic activity in the region, and they captured the attention of Ford, who chose Monument Valley as the location for “Stagecoach.” Released in 1930, the movie was a major career break for actor John Wayne, who became an icon of the American West, and went on to star in several of Ford’s other movies, including, decades later, “Rio Grande.”
Large film productions brought money and generated a lot of work for Moab residents.
An article in the Times-Independent from December 28, 1950, describes the hubbub surrounding the making of “Rio Grande”:
“The construction crew had built in its entirety a mammoth cavalry fort and an Indian village three blocks long. Altogether, 174 people were transported from Hollywood with 75 added to the company from the Moab residents. Sixty Navajo Indians and 129 horses were used. More than 800 gallons of water per day had to be transported to the location from Moab for cast and crew. The temperature averaged 115 degrees.”
The same article recounts how early preparations for filming “Rio Grande” included widening the River Road, which was at the time narrow and unpaved, to facilitate moving supplies and equipment to the set location. River Road is now a paved scenic drive that connects the town of Castle Valley to Moab and gives access to many recreation sites. In at least that one instance, the film industry helped literally shape the infrastructure of the Moab area.
Top: A well known scene from Forrest Gump (1994) was filmed in Monument Valley. Photographer Andrea David holds up an image from the movie in the exact location it was filmed. [Paramount Pictures - Courtesy of the Utah Office of Tourism - Photo by Andrea David / @filmtourismus.de] Bottom: A movie poster for Stagecoach (1939). [United Artists / Courtesy of Utah Film Commission]
Locals have been key to film production
Larry Campbell has been working with the film industry in Moab for four decades. He’s mostly retired now—his daughter, Crystal Bowden, has taken on much of the work he used to do—but he still participates in a shoot now and then.
Campbell’s start in film was by chance.
“My wife at the time was driving down the road in a Chevy Blazer that I had done some work on, and it had a ‘For Sale’ sign on it,” Campbell recalls.
The driver of a Mercedes flagged her down and in an Italian accent, said he wanted to buy the car. When Campbell’s then-wife started explaining the work that had been done on the vehicle, the man cut her off, saying he didn’t care about that— he wanted to blow it up. The Mercedes driver turned out to be a movie producer, and Campbell ended up selling him two Chevy Blazers and helping the production with their cars throughout the shoot. The movie was 1986’s “Choke Canyon,” about a “cowboy scientist” trying to prevent a large corporation from dumping nuclear waste. Reviews were middling at best, but the movie did offer Campbell an appealing new line of work.
“They paid me poorly and treated me terribly, (but) I fell in love,” Campbell says of the film industry. He became vice president of the local film commission and served on the board for 14 years. He traveled to California to promote southeastern Utah as a filming location and to build specialty vehicles for movies, and he also helped out on sets. When there wasn’t film work, he got odd jobs, or sold a vehicle. He eventually acquired rental properties that helped him through lean times.
He remembers adventurous tasks for unique scenes and shots:
“I used to hang myself off a rope at Dead Horse Point,” he recalls, ruefully adding that he won’t so much as walk near cliff edges anymore. He remembers helping with a commercial shoot in which a Cadillac was being poised, via crane, on a free-standing rock pillar. He and a coworker put a length of 2x12 lumber down as a bridge from the main cliff out to the rock tower. Campbell remembers other shoots where helicopters were used to place cars on top of Castleton Tower, and another time that a biplane landed on 400 East in Moab.
The “Red Bull people are nuts,” recounts Campbell, of the stunts that the energy drink company has filmed – like
parachuting and landing on formations in the Fisher Towers, or launching down a waterslide off the top of Mineral Bottom and opening a parachute once airborne.
Locals with expertise—either with specific skills or knowledge of the area— are invaluable for film crews. Manager of local guide company Navtec, Brian Martinez, along with some of his staff, have used their boat experience to help with scenes on the river. When “The Lone Ranger” filmed in the area in 2013, Martinez helped with a scene in which a train trestle bridge—actually a custombuilt balsa-wood set piece—was blown up over the river. Work for the river guides included hauling sand to create a berm on the beach and sweeping up splintered wood out of the river after the explosion. Martinez has also helped create “fog” over the water, piloting one of a fleet of boats with fog machines along the river.
Martinez and his staff also helped with the T.V. show “Westworld,” which filmed in the area in periods from 2016 through 2018. The production crew came in the fall, after the busiest season for tourism river trips.
“It extended the season out for the guides, and gave them a big fat paycheck for the winter,” Martinez says.
Top: Moab resident Larry Campbell has worked closely with the film production industry in the area for four decades. [Courtesy of Larry Campbell] Bottom: A movie poster for Rio Grande (1950). [Republic Pictures / Courtesy of Utah Film Commission]
Film today in Southeast Utah
Film production continues to be part of the culture and economy in the region and in Moab. The most recent major film to be made in the area was “Thunderbolts*,” a Marvel Studios film set to be released in 2025.
“They were here for a few weeks; they did some set-building and they had some really famous people in town that people got some sightings of,” said the film commission’s Metzner, talking about the Marvel production. The cast includes Harrison Ford and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
In 2022, Moab was abuzz with the arrival of “Horizon,” a multi-part Western saga directed by Kevin Costner. The production activity was not unlike what was described in that 1950 newspaper article about “Rio Grande.” Hundreds of locals answered a casting call for extras; the call specifically sought people with horseback riding skills and people of Indigenous backgrounds. An elaborate set was built outside of town, and local lodging and dining services provided for the production crews.
“‘Horizon’ employed hundreds of people,” says Crystal Bowden, Campbell’s daughter and owner of Moab Film Services.
The company helps film crews find locations and secure necessary permits and permissions, and also rents out equipment like tents, tables, generators, and trailers.
“Everything down to coolers,” Bowden says. “We have everything they would need on location in Moab to operate their film.”
She emphasizes the economic boost that film productions bring to the area.
“It brings so much to the community that people don’t even realize,” she says. “We are constantly hiring catering with either local restaurants or even food trucks.
On the show I have coming up in September, they’re hiring as many local crews as they can. They come to town, they’re shopping in our stores, they’re eating in our restaurants, they’re staying in hotels and bringing 40 or 50 people at a time.”
While the work can be “feast-orfamine,” and can be exhausting, Bowden says she truly loves it. One perk is getting to meet stars like Costner, who she talked with one-on-one several times while working on “Horizon.”
“He’s a really cool guy, not just a good actor,” Bowden says. “He’s pretty down-to-earth.”
While those large projects can be exciting, Bowden says commercials and smaller T.V. shows are her company’s “bread and butter.” They usually come with fewer people and less equipment, and are ready to hire and rent what they need in town.
One of her favorite crews to work with is the Marlboro ad team.
“We’ve worked with the Marlboro cowboys for a lot of years,” she says, adding that her dad worked with them as well. “They’ve become like family to us.”
Marlboro Man is a long-running and hugely successful ad campaign featuring cowboys and beautiful, wild landscapes. The ads are restricted in the United States, but they are still produced here for the Marlboro website and aired in other countries. The campaign, along with Western movies, has helped shape international perception of the American West.
“I have to say, the Marlboro ads, they made the whole world think that the West was red rock towers,” Campbell says. “For a long time they were shown in the movie theaters in Germany. They all came here thinking the whole West was (like) Monument Valley or Moab.”
Economic impact and film tourism
Aside from generating economic activity while production crews are in the area, movies featuring southern Utah can inspire travelers to visit the region for decades. The Utah Film Commission has film tourism itineraries tailored for people who love Westerns, horror, or classics. There are plans for interpretive signs to be installed at some of the best-known filming locations.
“When people see it in a movie, they come back to an area,” Metzner says. Famous movies have even become namesakes for landmarks.
“Thelma & Louise Point used to be called Fossil Point,” Metzner said, referring to the spot, visible from Dead Horse Point State Park, where the movie’s most famous scene was filmed.
When Metzner was traveling recently in Switzerland, someone asked her where she was from. When she answered “Utah,” it didn’t ring any bells. When she mentioned “Thelma & Louise,” and mimed the movie’s character’s driving through red rock country, she says, the man’s face lit up with recognition.
“That movie did so much for Moab,” Campbell says of “Thelma & Louise.” “People came to town just to see locations that we filmed at.”
Other movies have had similar effects. Forrest Gump Point, a location on the road through Monument Valley, used to be just a generic milepost marker; now people recognize it as the location of a moving moment in the film.
Martinez says Blue John Canyon has become a much more popular destination for tourists booking canyoneering trips with
Navtec since the movie “127 Hours,” which is based on a true incident that happened in Blue John, was released.
Promotion of a previously unknown place can have unintended consequences – fragile ecosystems can be trampled, and inadequate infrastructure can be damaged. Moab and Grand County have been grappling with their dependence on tourism and with the burdens of being a popular destination for many years. But at times in Moab’s past, film and tourism have been economic lifelines.
“I’m probably very biased because I have been so involved, but there’s no doubt in my mind that when Moab was dying in the 80s, film helped it come back,” Campbell says.
It’s not only the economic boost, or even the glitz or stunts, that inspire local residents to get involved in film. Sharing the beauty of Moab is one of the most rewarding parts of the job for Bowden.
“We live in one of the most beautiful places in the world, and being able to take people out and see that beauty that I get to live in, is pretty exciting,” she says. “Most of the time it’s their first time seeing it. I’ve had crews literally in tears because Moab is so pretty.” n
Opposite page, top: A movie poster for Horizon - An American Saga (2024). [Warner Bros. / Courtesy of Utah Film Commission] Opposite page, bottom: A scene from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) filmed in Arches National Park. [Paramount Pictures - Courtesy of the Utah Office of Tourism - Photo by Andrea David / @filmtourismus.de] Top: Film production on location near Castle Valley for a scene from Westworld (2016). [HBO / Courtesy of the Utah Film Commission] Bottom: The Moab Museum of Film and Western Heritage at the Red Cliffs Lodge. [Photo by Andrea David / @filmtourismus.de]
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THREE DAYS OF fun and creativity
Annual Red Rock Arts Festival offers a street fest, live music, storytelling, and more
Written by Sharon Sullivan
YOU DON’T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE AN ARTIST TO CONTRIBUTE TO A SOON-TO-BE-PAINTED MURAL IN MOAB. THE COMMUNITY MURAL PAINTING EVENT TAKES PLACE FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, DURING THE RED ROCK ARTS FESTIVAL. IT’S A “PAINT-BYNUMBER” CONCEPT IN WHICH THE ARTIST WHO DESIGNED THE MURAL HAS DRAWN IN SHAPES AND PROVIDED THE DESIGNATED COLOR PALETTE TO FILL IN THE SPACES.
The painting of the new mural is just one of many fun events going on Friday, Sept. 27 to kick off the three-day Moab festival.
The new mural will be added along the Mill Creek Pathway, under the Main Street Bridge. People may come anytime between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. to add their contribution. Grayce Wylder, the artist who designed the mural, will be there most of the day to help guide people who are painting.
“I plan to go there the week before to draw in all the lines,” she said. “People can fill in however much they choose. We’ll have people directing.”
The Moab Arts team conceived the idea of a paint-by-number format and put out a call to artists to submit designs for the new mural, based on this year’s festival theme: “Ripples and Reflections – exploring water’s transformative impact on community.”
Wylder, who works as a graphic designer and illustrator, says she’s “excited to see how it all plays out.” She said she based her design on the Colorado River that flows through Moab. “It’s such a long river that affects a lot of people, wildlife, and plant life along the way,” she says. “The design was inspired by the river, from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico.”
This year’s mural event differs from last year’s. In 2023, artist Chip Thomas painted two large-scale, black and white murals himself. One is on the side of the Moab Museum, and the other is on a wall of the Travel Council building. The theme that year was “people and stories.”
Thomas consulted with museum staff to depict people from Moab’s history.
Opposite page, bottom: During the Red Rock Arts Festival, artist Grayce Wylder will help oversee a paint-by-numbers project to paint, with the help of the public, a mural (top) she has designed for placement along the Mill Creek Parkway. [Courtesy of Grayce Wylder]
MORE FRIDAY EVENTS
The festival’s Community Art Show opens Friday at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center (MARC), 111 E. 100 South. The public is invited to come view the exhibit and vote for their favorite artwork. There are two categories – one for youth 13-and-under, and one for artists 13-and-older. Moab Arts will purchase the two people’s choice winners to add to the city’s permanent collection.
There will also be a Story Slam on Friday, similar to an open mic type of event. Celia Alario is a member of The Storied Self, a Moab storytelling group based on the National Public Radio program, the “Moth Radio Hour” – a series featuring “tales and the stories behind the stories.” For the festival, The Storied Self will present a Story Slam at the MARC, from 7-9 p.m.
Similar story slams take place across the nation, often in partnership with various public radio stations. The Moab Library and Back of Beyond Books are sponsoring this event. No experience is necessary to participate in the Story Slam.
Participants will put their name in a velvet top-hat, and if their name is chosen, will tell a five to seven minute, true story based on the “Ripples and Reflections” theme. Notes and props are not allowed, nor can the story be a standup comedy routine.
If it sounds nerve-wracking to stand up in front of people to tell a story without notes, consider attending a free storytelling workshop that Alario is co-facilitating prior to the festival, on Monday, Sept. 23 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the MARC. Workshop participants will learn tips on how to tell a good story, and what types of elements to include in a tale.
“We’re excited about the transformative power of storytelling,” Alario says. “We really love this community. We have a great intergenerational group that tends to come out.” Story slam events draw a range of people, from in their teens to their 80s, she says.
“Folks come from all parts of the community,” Alario says. “People tell all sorts of stories. Expect to laugh, and cry. The stories are really powerful.”
Typically, time allows for the telling of 10 stories during a slam event. When they first
Bottom right: The Red Rock Arts Festival will feature a Story Slam event on Friday, Sept. 27. Here, Holly Lammert, a member of the Storied Self, hosts a recent slam event. [Photo by Ginger Cyan]
“It’s a fun festival –truly a community event.”
— Joanna Onorato
started hosting story slams only a few people would put their names in the hat, Alario recalls. “In the last year … we’ve hit our stride. Now it’s common to have 20 people submit their names. It shows a demand –people enjoy telling and hearing stories.”
Alario believes many Moab residents have personal stories related to water. “Many people recreate or work on the water – that could be a story,” she says. Someone might want to share a story about when water has been scarce in the desert, or, when there’s been an overabundance, like the flooding in town in recent years, Alario adds.
“We have farmers here, and people who love to garden – there may be stories about those relationships to water,” suggests Alario. “It’s anybody’s guess what will be told. It’s always captivating.”
SATURDAY STREET FEST
On Saturday, the Street Fest happens from noon to 7 p.m., and includes various food and artisan vendors, and craft-making activities for kids throughout the day. The street will be closed off in front of the MARC building, with a stage set up for live music.
The lineup includes the DineTah Dancers at 12:30 p.m., followed by Sturtz at 1 p.m., Gabrielle Louise at 2:30 p.m., The CrossEyed Possum Band at 4 p.m., and Pijama Piyama at 5:30 p.m.
The live music and many other events at the festival grew out of what originated in 2009 as “Plein Air Moab” with approximately 25 local and national artists painting in the open air that first year. The event expanded to include other elements, and by 2017 became rebranded as the Red Rock Arts Festival.
“We really wanted to make it a community event,” says Arts and Special Events Director Kelley McInerney. “We wanted some participatory events to involve community members more.”
Top right: Singer-songwriter Gabrielle Louise [Courtesy] Bottom: The Cross-eyed Possum Band [Courtesy]
SUNDAY WORKSHOPS
Five different workshops will be held at the MARC on Sunday. One is a bilingual tie-dye workshop, which will be taught by Thom Crumrine. The workshop is from 2-5 p.m. and will be held outdoors in the MARC’s side yard. Joanna Onorato will translate Crumrine’s instructions into Spanish. “I’m excited to volunteer and help make these events more accessible to community members,” she says.
Entry into the workshop will be staggered, with about an hour needed to complete the entire process, Crumrine says. T-shirts and dyes will be provided and participants will leave with a finished product. People can also bring their own white, cotton, and clean item to tie-dye.
Additionally, two painting workshops will be offered – one using oil paints, and another class painting with watercolors. The watercolor workshop will be based on a practice called “travel journaling” where a person brings with them a small notebook and set of watercolors and paints a picture each day of their travels.
There’s also a wet felting workshop, as well as a “make your own ink” workshop – which will include instruction of calligraphy techniques using the ink that is made in the workshop. All workshops are free, although registration may be required for some. Materials used in the workshops are included.
On Sunday evening there will be a free screening of the movie Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner. The film will be shown at the MARC at 6:30 p.m.
Organizers say they expect that locals and visitors alike will find something to enjoy over the three days.
“It’s a fun festival. It’s truly a community event sharing creativity,” says Onorato. “It’s a really nice gathering.” n
Visit the web site at: www.redrockartsfestival.com
Top: DineTah Navajo Dancers [Courtesy] Middle, right: Sturtz is part of the live music lineup. (Courtesy) Bottom: Pijama Piyama Band [Courtesy]
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