0ctober 27th and 28th 2023
Its Only A Movie Horror Film Festival
at The Rivoli Theatre Springville, UT
The 2023 IOAM fest coven has convened and dark plots are afoot. Reach into the dark corners of your soul and create up to 8 minutes of your most horrifying storytelling, but don't freak out...
Its Only a Movie
Thank you all who submitted and attended the 2022 IOAM Festival. The show was a roaring success for the organizers and the Rivoli. We cannot wait to see what the Utah community brings us in 2023!
The spookiest festival in the greater Springville area.
The rules are, under 8 minutes and PG13ish. The festival will have lots of cool events and spooky things to watch. The final schedule might not be available till the week before as we are going to need to see how many submissions we get. So steel yourself and summon your courage but don't fret... Its Only a Movie.
The Films
No Films have been submitted yet! You better help with that
The Rivoli Theatre
The Rivoli Theatre
254 S Main St, Springville, UT 84663
The Rivoli Theater under the ownership of Emil Ostlund first opened its doors to the public on December 22, 1927 with its first movie presentation, a silent picture titled “Loves of Carmen.”
The Rivoli was note the first movie house to open in Springville. The Star Theater in the block north of the Rivoli had been in operation for several years, but would soon give way tothe more progressive Rivoli which added a sound system for the “talkies” in 1929.
The movies, along with radio programs, became the most popular forms of public entertainment and movie going by the late 1920s was a regular habit for many Springville adults and younger people alike. New films were released in great quantity as Hollywood capitalized on the vast appetites of the film loving public. New films opened two or three times a week and the Rivoli audiences responded enthusiastically when the big stars of the day like Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford graced the silver screen.
Through the depression years of the 1930s and the war years of the 1940s patrons flocked to the movies for a brief respite from tough economic times and wartime worries. There were also newsreels for keeping up with current events.
Adding to the fun were live performances of trained chimpanzees and mesmerizing magicians. This mix of filmed and live entertainment continued until 1967 when Carl Lind, a new owner, remodeled the theater and renamed it the Villa. A few years later another group acquired the theater and it became the Villa Playhouse.
