The longer this festival continues, the more films we discover have local ties.

Ethel Hyde-White, the Palm Springs-based matriarch of a show biz family including the late Wilfrid Hyde-White (Col. Pickering in “My Fair Lady”) and their son, producer Alex Hyde-White, attended Thursday's Opening Night Gala. She said her daughter, Juliet Hyde-White, was a set costumer on Guillermo Arriaga's Closing Night Gala film, “The Burning Plain” and Friday's 20th Anniversary film, “$5 A Day.”

Producer Patrick Stack of Los Angeles said writer-director Brent Huff named their film “Cat City” (screening Wednesday night and Thursday morning at Palm Canyon Theatre) because he's been coming to the desert for years and heard that's the nickname the locals use.

Besides Cathedral City, scenes for that film were shot at Bighorn Golf Club and old Palm Springs.

You'll also see gorgeous local homes in the documentary of a fabled architectural photographer, “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman” this afternoon and Monday morning at the Annenberg Theater.

“Bart Got A Room,” screening Friday and Jan. 18 at the Annenberg, features Marywood Country Day School grad Alia Shawkat from “Arrested Development.” Family members Tony Shawkat and Dina Burke got producer and executive producer credits.