Earlier this year Welch released the New York Times bestseller Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage. She is the face and creative inspiration of the Raquel Welch Signature Collection, one of the best-selling wig lines in the world, and has been honored by the American Cancer Society for donations of more than $10 million in wigs to women undergoing chemotherapy. In 2008 she was named by People Magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. She has starred opposite Richard Burton, Faye Dunaway, Robin Williams, Marcello Mastroianni, Mae West, James Stewart, Reese Witherspoon, Bill Cosby, Dyan Cannon, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, James Coburn, Alicia Silverstone, Burt Reynolds, Robert Culp, Harvey Keitel, Dudley Moore and Jodie Foster and has worked with such award-winning directors as Richard Lester, Herb Ross, Stanley Donen, Garry Marshall and Blake Edwards.

The 16th Annual Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival is comprised of more than 150 screenings of features, documentaries and shorts from around the world, a two-day music festival, film and music industry workshops, celebrity studded parties and a marketplace bazaar in the Southern California wine country town of Temecula. Produced by the Cinema Entertainment Alliance, a non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to celebrating world cinema and music, the festival has screened more than 1,500 films from more than 20 countries since 1995. Temecula is within a two-hour drive from Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, California. A full schedule of films, workshops, concerts, lodging and more is available at www.tviff.com or by calling (951) 699-5514.