Published on Thursday, August 21, 2008
By PAT O'BRIEN
The Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival announced Thursday its opening film, "The Flyboys," a family thriller about two boys who accidentally stow away on an airplane owned by mobsters.
"This film represents what great independent filmmaking is about. And great storytelling," said Jo Moulton, the festival's director. "It's fun. It fits the community of Temecula. It's about two kids, a family-type adventure at the same time it has all the entertainment components -- the thrill, the adventure."
The film, which also was screened at the Riverside International Film Festival in April, features the stunt flying of Skip Evans, of Riverside, in his 1952 Twin Beech. Evans, who began as an agricultural and skydiving pilot, has done aerial work in "Flags of Our Fathers," "Con Air," "Mulholland Falls," "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Quantum of Solace
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