2023 Wild West Film Festival Returns To Vacaville
On September 30th, the Wild West Film Festival came to Vacaville’s Theater Deville to pay tribute to the legends, culture, lifestyle and history of the Wild West through film, art, music and live performances.
To promote this rich history, many different cultural groups came together such as the Peņa Adobe Historical Society, the Solano County Sheriff’s Posse and the Congressional Gunfighters of American. The Wild West Film Festival celebrated these many contributors and others, of all things western!
The Two Day Annual Wild West Film Festival competition kicked off on Saturday with film screenings. The event also included cowboy re-enactors, shootout skits, horses, mounted sheriff posse, cowboy poetry, historic displays, costumes, food, music, vendors and so much more. Sunday showcased the remaining western films. Then, wrapping up the Wild West Film Festival was the presentation of the Westy Award winners for best in film, the Excellence Award and the True Grit Honorees.
Everyone enjoyed visiting with and western novelist and screenwriter Lee Martin and Jerry Bestpitch - World Famous Mounted Shooter/Pony Express/Stuntman. There were films screened during the two day event about 1800’s American history, and despite the rain on Saturday, music provided by the Vacaville Jammers and local musician Paul Tolle filled the air while visitors learned about local settlers, like the Peņas and the Vacas who helped to build what has become the city of Vacaville.