At Saturday’s Award Ceremony for the 2015 Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, Allan Katz received the Lifetime Achievement Award. “He was genuinely taken aback and surprised by the honor,” said IIFC Chair and founder Stephen Savage. Katz’s career included several years writing for “M*A*S*H”, which Savage says was enough alone to qualify him for the…

Stage, television and motion picture costumer and fashion designer Noelle Raffy is the next speaker for the popular Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series. She will discuss and illustrate “Costume Design From Creation Concept to Screen and Stage.” “I grew up as a backstage baby,” said Raffy. Both parents danced professionally — her father, Patrick Frantz,…