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Arts Education Matters by Sabina Dana Plasse

For any community, encouraging and expanding the education of its youth means investing in an individual success in life as well as building prosperous and future leaders within a community. The Sun Valley Wine Auction, a benefit for art and education, has long been a successful fundraising event supported not […]

Locally Grown: Sun Valley Filmmakers Shine by Kim Frank

This year’s Sun Valley Film Festival features several selected films that have locally connected actors, filmmakers, and/or producers. To honor the local talent and these spectacular films, SVPN sat down with a handful of the filmmakers to discuss the making of their films and the ways the Sun Valley area […]

A League of Her Own: Honoring Geena Davis by Kim Frank

Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning actress and gender-rights advocate, is this year’s recipient of the Sun Valley Film Festival’s Vision Award and Zions Bank-sponsored Grand Dame Award. With a career that includes decades of films that push the envelope for women’s roles, including her most recent virtual reality film, Dear Angelica, […]

Spirits of Another Sort by Laurel Holland

SUN VALLEY, ID. Dust off those folding lawn chairs and pull out the family picnic blanket: Summer Symphony Season is here! And with another star-studded lineup on tap, this year’s Orchestra Festival is slated for a larger-than-life opening act. On Monday, August 1, the highly anticipated production of Stravinsky’s The […]

Visionary Filmmaking: An Interview with Oliver Stone by Kim Frank

Midnight Express, Salvador, Platoon, W, Wall Street, Talk Radio, JFK, Heaven on Earth, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Scarface, Evita, People vs Larry Flynt, The Joy Luck Club, The Untold History of the United States, Snowden…. When spoken aloud to almost any adult, virtually every movie on this list elicits some […]